Microsoft has announced a major expansion of its AI assistant capabilities for businesses. There are Copilot features coming to most volume licence plans for no extra charge. A new “Copilot Business” bundle for small businesses. Plans will gain access to advanced features including Agent mode in Word, Excel and PowerPoint,
The latest feature from Microsoft Word — the new Word Agent — transforms how you interact with documents by letting the AI edit content directly within your document. It tackles everything from writing new docs and editing existing ones to reformatting style and structure. Our real-world tests show it’s not
Microsoft’s new Excel Agent—part of the Copilot AI suite—is already available in Excel on the web, even before its full rollout to Windows and Mac in December 2025. This step-by-step guide explains exactly how to find and enable Excel Agent through Excel Labs, so you can start automating formulas, managing
Microsoft’s new Excel Agent brings powerful AI-driven automation to spreadsheet creation and data analysis. We’ve explored how Excel Agent helps you generate budgets, sample data, and insightful reports with simple text prompts, saving time while expanding what’s possible inside Excel. Discover where it shines (or falls short) in real-world tasks.
There are two new special Microsoft 365 plans for consumers called “Microsoft 365 Classic” that Microsoft only mentions in passing. We explain what it ‘Classic’ is, what it costs and how to get it. Microsoft 365 Classic is a hidden part of the changes to Microsoft 365 in early 2025,
Word documents and Outlook emails can be cluttered with unnecessary emoji. Copilot AI loves adding emoji, like it or not. If you’re tired of seeing smiley faces in your reports or emails, here’s practical ways to clean them out. Learn step-by-step methods to find and remove emoji using font searches
Microsoft Word 365 users are frustrated by the Copilot Summary feature that refuses to disappear. Copilot Summary automatically appears above documents and can’t be fully hidden or disabled. While designed to help summarize content, its lack of control options and buggy behavior have made it more of an annoyance than
Microsoft’s Copilot is NOT the wildly popular, world class AI product that Microsoft says it is. That’s not just an opinion; there are hard facts to back it up. The recent sharp price drop and ignored user frustration suggest otherwise. From intrusive integration to privacy concerns, Copilot’s rollout has backfired.
Microsoft’s Copilot “Deep Research” promises detailed, AI-generated reports—but does it deliver? Office Watch’s hands-on tests reveal the strengths, limitations, and frustrating formatting flaws behind Microsoft’s most ambitious Copilot feature yet. From factual errors to messy Word documents, here’s what you should know before relying on Deep Research for serious work
Microsoft’s new Copilot() function in Excel comes with real risks. When used incorrectly, Copilot() can produce misleading or nonsensical results that could compromise data accuracy and decision-making. Treat this AI feature with caution and Microsoft should add stronger safeguards and clearer warnings against misuse. It all started with this post
Microsoft is extending more Copilot features to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, offering expanded AI tools across Word, Excel, Outlook, and more. While users now gain access to enhanced drafting, summarizing, image generation, and voice features, the long-standing cap of 60 AI credits per month still applies. Compared to
Thinking about switching to Microsoft 365 Premium? Whether you’re moving from a Personal or Family subscription, upgrading unlocks expanded AI-powered Copilot features and enhanced productivity tools. This guide walks you through the upgrade process, highlights what to expect, and answers common questions about credits, shared accounts, and potential billing issues—helping
Microsoft 365 Premium is the newest consumer plan that bundles the popular Family subscription with Copilot Pro at a much lower cost. For $199 a year, subscribers get six accounts with full Microsoft Office apps, 1TB OneDrive storage each, and premium Copilot AI tools for the plan owner—including research, data
Microsoft is rolling out a new wave of AI-powered tools in Microsoft 365. Copilot Agent for Word, Excel, and Office promise to generate full documents, reports, spreadsheets, and presentations from natural language prompts, then refine them through AI chat. Microsoft aims to make content creation faster and more consistent across
Microsoft is promoting Excel Agent as a powerful new AI feature designed to build entire worksheets from a single prompt—but how well does it actually work? Office Watch put Excel Agent to the test and found a mix of promise and pitfalls. From creating a mortgage comparison sheet to handling
Microsoft has made Copilot more powerful—but also more confusing. With Agents, Agent, and Actions all referring to very different AI tools, even experienced Office users are left wondering what does what. Agents (plural) for Copilot in business and enterprises can take actions automatically such as tasks setup a new employee. Now,
Microsoft has quietly opened up its Frontier program—a public preview for Copilot and AI features—to Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscribers. While Enterprise users have had access for a while, everyday users are now being invited to test AI-driven tools across Word, Excel, and the web apps. The process to
There’s a fixed monthly limit on Copilot AI features across all Microsoft applications. Microsoft has AI credits in Microsoft 365 Personal and some Family plan users, limiting Copilot AI feature usage across apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. They are a key part of the HUGE changes to Microsoft
Get greater control over your Excel workbooks by converting dynamic COPILOT() responses into static, editable values that won’t change unexpectedly. This guide walks you through simple yet powerful methods to ensure your AI-generated results stay stable, compatible with features like Stock data, and remain auditably accurate. Whether you’re preparing a
Transform your photos into interactive 3D models in seconds with Copilot 3D, Microsoft’s experimental tool makes it easy to generate high-quality 3D models from simple images. Discover how this experimental technology can let you change the view of a person or object. Take a photo of an object with a
The new Copilot() function can be great for taking disorganized data like feedback from people and grouping it quickly. We’ll explain the best ways to do that and the pitfalls of relying on AI. One of Microsoft’s examples for Excel 365’s Copilot(() caught our eye and we were pleasantly surprised
It had to happen, there’s now a Copilot() function in Excel to drop AI responses directly into spreadsheets. It’s a clever trick but, as usual, there are problems that Microsoft overlooks in their hype. Excel’s new COPILOT() function brings AI directly into spreadsheet formulas. Available now in Excel for Windows
Just like Copilot or its parent ChatGPT, the Copilot function in Excel use for analysis but not so much for getting hard facts. Our testing of the new Copilot() feature shows that no-one should trust what AI says is true. We’ve taken Microsoft’s example and extended them a little to
Microsoft is sacking another 9,000 workers or about 4% of its global workforce. That’s in addition to the 6,000 people dismissed earlier this year. What does that mean for us paying customers? If you’ve wondered why Microsoft pushes Copilot AI so hard – it’s to recoup their incredibly large investment
