Can AI agents automate Microsoft Word?

Word is broadly automatable through maintained in-process object models and an official remote MCP server. The cross-platform Word JavaScript API can read and change document bodies, paragraphs, content controls, inline pictures, metadata, and bindings from an Office add-in; VBA, COM, and VSTO provide the deeper Windows path. API is the best path because the object model is the documented control surface and does not depend on a Microsoft 365 tenant MCP endpoint. Microsoft's remote Word MCP server is the agent-native route for reading, understanding, creating, and commenting on documents, subject to Microsoft 365 tenant access. Power Automate adds a premium template and PDF connector plus desktop actions for common document operations. The opened Word add-ins programming overview does not document a product-specific official Word CLI or a document webhook subscription. Zapier, Make, and n8n catalogs were not opened as Word connectors. Computer-use viability is unassessed; no probe artifact exists. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/llms.txt and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/llms.txt returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-18.

Best path today: api · Overall automatability: 7/10