Microsoft Corp. envisions a future where everyone starts “vibe working” with the launch of its new Agent Mode in Office Apps and Agent Mode in Copilot Chat offering new ways to automate business and personal work. The company said the new agents will “do work on your behalf” by automatically spinning up “high-quality Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations” upon the user’s command. Users now have the ability to “steer” Microsoft’s Copilot tool from within those apps as it orchestrates complex tasks within them. Agent Mode can also create a loan calculator that will figure out monthly payments based on user inputs, such as the loan amount, interest rate and loan term. It will then generate a payment schedule in a neatly formatted table. Alternatively, it can generate a monthly financial analysis of a small business’s spending, complete with a breakdown by different product lines. As for Agent Mode in Word, this is designed to make more advanced features available to users. It’s true that most office employees are probably comfortable in Word and can already create a basic document – but they may not be familiar with many of its more advanced formatting tools for fleshing out documents and making them look more professional. The end result can take advantage of Word styles, formatting and other features to make sure the document not only reads well but looks good. Also announced was a new Office Agent in Copilot, which makes it possible for users to create Word and PowerPoint documents from directly within the Copilot Chat user interface. Excel integration will be added soon too. With this, all the user has to do is set Office Agent in Copilot a task, and it will follow up by clarifying the user’s intent, then engaging in web-based research to create whatever document is required. As it does this, it will reveal its “chain of thought” processing, so users can check how it’s going about each task. Once it’s finished, the Office Agent in Copilot will present a preview of its new document. At this juncture, the user can then go through it and request any amendments they feel are necessary.