After all thet testing is complete the features will roll out to all existing Office 365 users, with other Office apps scheduled to get the feature down the road. Ideally, gadgets give you the power to do something new, but this one’s more about keeping pace with what you used to be able to do.

A Windows version will be tested in the coming weeks. Slow level Insiders, who get more stable versions of features before they are included in public releases, will be in line to get the feature later. The new features will be available starting today as a preview to Mac for Office Insiders users on the Fast level, which is the group of users who get features first to provide feedback. So if there's a piece of information missing, they can include it in the reply email and it'll automatically be added into the Word file.

The tagged person will receive an email about the notification, and can take action on the document by replying directly to the email. If you're working in a shared, collaborative Word document, you'll be able to colleagues to let them know what tasks they need to tackled. If you type, the AI will display recent charts you've worked with in a sidebar so you can insert the relevant one. It will also make recommendations based on other recent documents and files that you've been working with. If you type things like 'todo' or '' in a Word document, Editor will recognize the text and create a list based on the items. Essentially, the tool takes things that Word users have been doing for years to create makeshift lists and notes - or using other apps to do - and turning it into something more uniform within the Word ecosystem. The feature is part of Editor, Microsoft Word's AI-powered writing assistant. The beta version of the feature is available for some Office for Mac Insiders starting today and will roll out to Windows testers in the coming weeks. The company is testing a new feature in its word processor that will automatically detect notes and messages left for yourself and others and turn them into actionable lists. Microsoft will start turning the notes you leave in Word documents into to-do lists.

Microsoft to do list gadget