- Adobe Acrobat and Express are coming soon to the Microsoft 365 Agent Store
- Users can make changes to files without opening Adobe software
- Plugins make creativity more accessible
Adobe has confirmed that it will bring Express and Acrobat to Microsoft 365 Copilot, putting its powerful productivity tools in the hands of more workers.
The integration means that users will not need to open the respective applications to make some of the most common changes, reducing some of the barriers associated with Adobe software, which is often considered to have a steep learning curve.
“Apps will be available in the Microsoft 365 Agent Store in the coming weeks,” said Adobe Express senior vice president and general manager Govind Balakrishnan in a LinkedIn post.
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Adobe Express and Acrobat are coming to M365 Copilot Chat
Within Copilot, users will be able to explore Adobe Express design templates, wrap text and copy, swap or generate images with AI, add animations and motions, and more. Although Copilot serves as a simplified interface in the first instance, the files will also exist within the Express application if users wish to make deeper changes.
On the Acrobat front, users will be able to create, organize and edit PDF files from the chat interface.
More broadly, Adobe has gone big on AI in two ways: The company has been integrating generative tools into its own apps to make advanced editing more accessible, but it has also been integrating its own apps with third-party AI ecosystems to reach users where they already are.
Balakrishnan said the move is part of Adobe’s plan to “[make] “Creativity is more accessible to everyone.”
A previous integration brought Acrobat, Express, and Photoshop to ChatGPT, for example.
While tools like ChatGPT and M365 Copilot have been able to generate image versions of user messages, they haven’t always been as easy to refine without more AI messages. Adding Express and Acrobat to the mix allows AI to generate a human-editable file format from the beginning.
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