- Claude can now work on Excel and PowerPoint with a shared context
- AI chatbot interface integrates directly into apps on Mac and Windows
- Anthropic is now making these tools available to paying customers in beta.
Anthropic has made a series of context-related changes to Claude to give it more power in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint – now that the AI tool is accessible directly within apps, this means users can interact with their data and generate slides without leaving the apps.
But Claude will also work between the two applications, so users can access data and information from Excel spreadsheets to flesh out their presentations without having to copy and paste data.
“You can work with a higher degree of efficiency and quality, without having to re-explain at every step,” Anthropic wrote.
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You can now use Claude directly in Excel, PowerPoint
Integrating Claude directly into Excel means that AI can analyze data sets, help generate formulas and, of course, summarize and explain information, data and trends. Users can also generate dashboards and charts with natural language prompts.
On the PowerPoint front, this means users can generate entire slideshows from prompts and edit slides from the conversational interface. It also links to Excel, making it easy to generate presentations from data analyses.
“We have provided a preloaded set of skills that cover the most common use cases of Excel and PowerPoint,” Anthropic said, adding that users can create custom plugins and use third-party connectors.
Paying customers can access beta versions of these updated tools on Mac and Windows, but the company hasn’t publicly set a general availability goal.
Anthropic has also released a set of instructions for Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint to help administrators get set up.
The move comes shortly after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Cowork, an enhanced platform integrated with Anthropic’s work automation service aimed at transforming AI from an interested observer into a full-fledged helper.
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