TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for life with no subscription fees for $119.97. Microsoft 365 costs $99.99/year, and ...

After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there are solid alternatives.

Microsoft Ignite 2025 unveiled dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot. These AI-powered tools now allow users to generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations ...

Microsoft has unveiled fresh, vibrant icons for its Office apps, a significant change since 2018, inspired by Copilot branding. These new designs feature softer curves and richer colors across Word, ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Microsoft is introducing Agent Mode in Excel, part of its new approach to “vibe working,” where Copilot can analyze data, generate visualizations, and iterate on results through multi-step tasks.

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

I cannot tell you how many times I've received a PDF document with the expectation that I'm going to either use the text to create something new or to edit the copy. That's all fine and good when I'm ...

Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models. "Microsoft does not use ...