Why I ditched Copilot for Claude in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - and how you can, too ...

Microsoft Office remains the default ecosystem for most of that work, which is why perpetual licenses are still worth the investment.

Anyone with a Microsoft 365 account can use new AI agents in Copilot Chat to jump-start Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents — and some users can enlist a special agent to analyze their M365 files.

At times, you might not want to prevent macros, ActiveX control, data connections, etc., from running in a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. If so, you can disable or turn ...