Microsoft’s Office Apps Are Getting Even More Free Ai Features

Microsoft is adding moreover much AI features to Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While nan package shaper has been adding plentifulness of features to its paid Microsoft 365 Copilot complete nan past year, a scope of free additions are coming to its Office apps successful early 2026 that don’t require nan $30 per month, per nan personification Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Microsoft first introduced nan free type of Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps successful September, and it’s now improving really this chatbot useful successful Outlook. Copilot Chat will soon beryllium capable to position contented crossed an full Outlook inbox, including almanac entries and meetings. This will let you to usage Copilot to triage an inbox aliases schedule and hole for meetings, each without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. It goes acold beyond nan existing integration that’s constricted to conscionable individual 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 pinch 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 pinch a business’s branded template, aliases create caller slides, rewrite and format text, and adhd images.

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

Microsoft’s move to bring Agent Mode to Microsoft 365 business 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 finance Copilots into nan main Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription successful October.