By By Mark Hachman Senior Editor, PCWorld
Publication Date: 2026-04-24 13:00:00
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In summary:
- PCWorld reports Microsoft 365 Copilot has evolved from offering passive suggestions to actively making live changes in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents.
- The upgraded agentic capabilities allow Copilot to create presentations and documents from scratch, though with some limitations like missing graphics.
- These enhanced features are available across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Premium, Personal, and Family subscriptions, representing a significant productivity upgrade.
Although Microsoft’s Copilot reportedly remains far behind competing AI Large Language Models (LLMs) in terms of usage, the Copilot built into its Microsoft 365 applications remains a potent assistant. It’s now marginally better, with agentic abilities that finally act on the documents you’re working on.
In my early tests, however, it still falls short in a few key ways — and, of course, it’s certainly not perfect on the first try.
“When we first…
