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📊 Claude Invades Spreadsheets: Anthropic Expands Claude in Excel Access

Anthropic Claude logo featured in NewBits Digest article on Claude in Excel, highlighting Anthropic’s expanded Excel assistant rollout with multi-sheet analysis and safer edits.

Anthropic just widened availability of Claude in Excel, rolling the AI spreadsheet assistant out to Pro-tier customers after a beta period that was limited to higher-tier plans.


Translation: a lot more people just got an AI copilot inside their spreadsheets.


⚙️ What’s New in Claude in Excel


📁 Multi-sheet analysis — pull in several spreadsheets at once


🧠 Longer sessions — behind-the-scenes context management keeps work flowing


🛡️ Data-safe editing — new safeguards help prevent accidental overwrites


📝 Sidebar interface — chat directly inside Excel to analyze, clean, and transform data


Originally launched in October as a research preview, Claude in Excel now feels much closer to a production-ready knowledge-work tool.


📌 Why It’s Important


2026 is shaping up to be the year of getting “Claudepilled.”


Between Claude for Code, Cowork tools, and now a broader Claude in Excel rollout, Anthropic is systematically targeting the core of modern office work.


Just as coding is becoming increasingly automated, spreadsheets may be next.


That means:


⚡ fewer manual formulas


⚡ less hunting for obscure shortcuts


⚡ faster analysis for non-experts


⚡ AI doing the heavy lifting behind the grid


In short: the skill of driving Excel is starting to matter less than knowing what to ask.


🔮 The Big Picture


AI assistants are no longer just writing drafts or answering questions — they’re embedding directly into the tools where real work happens.


Claude in Excel signals a future where:


✔️ analysts move faster


✔️ managers explore data conversationally


✔️ complex models become accessible to anyone


✔️ spreadsheets turn into strategy engines, not bottlenecks


The race isn’t just about better models anymore.


It’s about owning the workflow.



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