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1. Oct 11
   Microsoft Copilot app now embeds full Word, Excel and PowerPoint editing

   Microsoft is reversing its earlier approach of embedding Copilot inside Office, instead bringing full Word, Excel and PowerPoint creation, editing and collaboration directly into the new Copilot app. Users can start from a simple prompt in Copilot Chat or a more complex task in Copilot Cowork, and the document opens alongside the conversation, where AI can rewrite content or add tables and standard Office editing controls remain available. Collaboration features include in-app sharing, comments and real-time co-editing, plus a new Library section that gathers recent Office files, Copilot pages and AI-generated images. Files stay in OneDrive with formatting, comments, sharing permissions and version history preserved, and users can choose a specific model for Office tasks or let Auto mode pick one. According to IT之家's October 13 report, the unified experience is currently available only to Frontier customers in Chat and Cowork.

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2. Oct 11
   Developer vibe-codes open-source Word, Excel, PowerPoint clones with Claude

   Brandon Thomas, the developer behind ArtCraft — a set of free, open-source replacements for Adobe's creative apps — released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft on October 13, targeting Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively. The three apps are written in Rust with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, are offered under MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses, run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD, and also work in browsers via WebAssembly from a single Rust codebase without Electron or Tauri. Per the GitHub pages, WordCraft reads and writes .docx along with .odt, .rtf, .html, .md and .txt, and supports styles, tables, track changes, spell/grammar check and mail merge; the developer says GridCraft already implements about 89% of Excel's ribbon and menu commands and roughly 98% of its worksheet functions; DeckCraft opens and saves .pptx and exports to PDF or images. Coverage and Reddit discussion note the apps remain early-stage: some call them "AI slop" and question whether one developer can keep up with fixes and upgrades, while Thomas says he has 15 years of coding experience and argues there is "no reason to save broken software" such as LibreOffice or GIMP.

   Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0

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