Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint gain cross-application context
Anthropic has enhanced its Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint, enabling them to share full conversation context across both applications. This update also introduces support for skills and allows users of Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry to connect via an LLM gateway. These improvements aim to provide a more integrated and powerful user experience by allowing actions in one application to be informed by interactions in the other. The update is available for users leveraging these existing integrations.
- →Skills support added to Claude add-ins
- →LLM gateway connection for cloud users
- →Cross-application context sharing for Claude add-ins
Features (2) ›
- Skills support added to Claude add-ins
The Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint have been updated to include support for skills.
- LLM gateway connection for cloud users
Users of Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry can now connect to the Claude add-ins via an LLM gateway.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Cross-application context sharing for Claude add-ins
Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint add-ins now share full conversation context, ensuring actions in one application are informed by interactions in the other.
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes
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