Get started with Agent Mode in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Why use Agent Mode?

• No design skills required : Empowers you to create professional visuals without needing graphic design expertise.

• Taste-driven development: Results are not only accurate but also visually polished — documents and decks that feel professional and ready to share from the very first draft. Apply your stylistic preferences to ensure that results match your desired tone and brand.

• Agentic design: Office Agent runs on Anthropic models. It uses a custom multi-agent approach that provides a flexible way to automate multiple, complex tasks seamlessly.

Where to find Agent Mode and how to use it

You can find Office Agent in the Copilot experiences in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For more information, see:

Agent Mode in Excel

Agent Mode in Word

Agent Mode in PowerPoint (Frontier)

Examples

• Financial report in Excel
  
  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"Create an annual financial close report for a bike shop business, including a breakdown of product lines across variance to budget (VTB) and year-over-year growth. Use dummy data for now, as well as standard financial formatting and best practices."​​​​​​​

• Create an executive brief deck in PowerPoint

  “Create a 7‑slide executive brief on [your topic], with a title slide, 3 slides of key insights, 2 slides of risks and mitigations, and a final ‘next steps’ slide. Use a clean enterprise style and include a short presenter notes section on each slide.”

• Customer‑ready brief in Word

  “Draft a 2‑page customer brief that summarizes [initiative], outlines the value for [audience], and includes a checklist for the first 30 days.”