"According to Redmond's own blog post, Microsoft's Agent Mode for Excel scored a 57.2 percent accuracy rate using the established SpreadsheetBench benchmark, but that's significantly lower than the 71.3 percent humans manage on average in the same tests. While Microsoft says Agent Mode outperforms other AI engines, that's still a significant shortfall, and one that threatens the possibility of yet more workslop filling our inboxes."
"On Monday, Redmond said that it's adding an OpenAI-powered Agent Mode for Word and Excel that will create documents based on existing material and extract data from spreadsheets for reports and financial analysis, all with a few sentences of prompts. For Word users, Microsoft is promising "vibe writing," drawing on existing documents to assemble reports and proposals, checking drafts for clarity and style, and suggesting refinements along the way."
Microsoft is adding AI Agent Mode to online Word and Excel, using OpenAI to generate documents from existing material and extract spreadsheet data via short prompts. Word's "vibe writing" assembles reports and proposals, checks drafts for clarity and style, and suggests refinements. Excel's agent analyzes spreadsheets, builds reports, and visualizes data while Microsoft and OpenAI claim it can "speak Excel." Agent Mode for Excel scored 57.2 percent on SpreadsheetBench versus 71.3 percent for humans, prompting Microsoft to emphasize real-user task performance beyond benchmarks. Microsoft also introduced a Copilot Office agent using Anthropic for chat-based document and presentation generation.
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