Microsoft’s Office apps are getting even more free AI features

Microsoft is adding adjacent much AI features to Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While the bundle shaper has been adding plentifulness of features to its paid Microsoft 365 Copilot implicit the past year, a scope of escaped additions are coming to its Office apps successful aboriginal 2026 that don’t necessitate the $30 per month, per the idiosyncratic Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Microsoft archetypal introduced the escaped mentation of Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps successful September, and it’s present improving however this chatbot works successful Outlook. Copilot Chat volition soon beryllium capable to presumption contented crossed an full Outlook inbox, including calendar entries and meetings. This volition let you to usage Copilot to triage an inbox oregon docket and hole for meetings, each without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. It goes acold beyond the existing integration that’s constricted to conscionable idiosyncratic email threads.

Agent Mode, which primitively launched to paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers successful September, is besides coming to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for each Microsoft 365 subscribers. Agent Mode successful Excel and Word tin make analyzable spreadsheets and documents with conscionable a prompt, and you’ll beryllium capable to take betwixt Anthropic and OpenAI reasoning models successful Excel.

Agent Mode successful PowerPoint tin beryllium utilized to update existing decks with a business’s branded template, oregon make caller slides, rewrite and format text, and adhd images.

Microsoft says it’s aiming to preview these escaped AI additions to Microsoft 365 subscribers by March 2026.

Microsoft’s determination to bring Agent Mode to Microsoft 365 concern plans and not complaint other follows a akin alteration earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile it bundled its AI-powered Copilot features into Office apps for user Microsoft 365 plans. Microsoft besides bundled its sales, service, and concern Copilots into the main Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription successful October.

Microsoft is besides present readying to motorboat Microsoft 365 Copilot Business adjacent month, aimed astatine tiny and midsize businesses. It’s priced astatine $21 per period alternatively of $30, and volition beryllium disposable for businesses with less than 300 users.