Word and Excel, part of the Microsoft Office suite, have been two of its most popular products for users, spanning students to businesses. So, when it brought agentic AI into them this week, it marked the leapfrogging of a concept to real world utility. Agent Mode could radically improve the user experience. In Excel, for example, if you have a complicated spreadsheet, then conversational commands in ordinary language will execute processes that would otherwise need expertise. Like asking it to pull out a slice of data, like a future projection or delayed payments, and make a table or graph out of it. While much better than earlier AI assistance, accuracy in its benchmark tests still trail behind a human being’s. That will change as the technology is refined.