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ChatGPT arrives in Microsoft Word on every plan, including Free
OpenAI made ChatGPT for Word generally available on 17 September for every plan, including Free. From a sidebar you can draft from notes, summarise a document, revise selected text and fix headings and formatting. One add-in from Microsoft Marketplace covers Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Use counts against your plan's token limits.
- Save a copy before asking for big changes. OpenAI warns it can change content you meant to keep.
- If you run a ChatGPT Business workspace, check the admin setting before 1 October, when OpenAI says the Word add-in will be enabled by default.
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