Anthropic's Claude Gains Shared Context Across Excel & PowerPoint

Anthropic is enhancing Claude's utility for business professionals with new, deeply integrated capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. The upgrade enables "shared context" across these applications, allowing Claude to maintain a consistent understanding of data and tasks as a user moves between spreadsheets and presentations. In practice, this means a user could ask Claude to analyze a dataset in Excel, create a summary, and then directly use that analysis to generate talking points or