Claude can now share context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, letting you 'work with a higher degree of efficiency and quality'

• Claude can now work across Excel and PowerPoint with shared context
• The AI chatbot interface integrates directly into the apps on Mac and Windows
• Anthropic is making these tools available in beta to paying customers now

Anthropic has made a series of context-related changes to Claude to give it more power within Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint – now that the AI tool can be accessed directly within the apps, it means users can interact with their data and generate slides without leaving the apps.

But Claude will also work between the two apps, so users can access Excel spreadsheet data and insights to pad 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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