Collaborate with Claude across Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook

Starting today, Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are generally available, and Claude for Outlook is now in public beta for all paid plans. As Claude moves between tasks in your Microsoft apps, it keeps the full context of your conversation. 

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One conversation across four apps

Most work doesn't live in one application, so Claude moves between them as you do. Triage an email in Outlook, open the attachment in Word to draft a memo in your team's template, build the supporting analysis in Excel, and turn it into a deck in PowerPoint — all without re-explaining what you're working on. Adjust an assumption in Excel and the chart in PowerPoint and the number in your Word memo automatically update, too.

Claude works across open files, so keep the spreadsheet, deck, and memo open side by side and changes will flow between them.

Conversations persist with each file, so you can close the sidebar, reopen it the next day, and pick up where you left off using your keyboard or your voice. 

Claude for Outlook

Claude for Outlook brings Claude into your inbox. Ask Claude to triage your inbox and it sorts messages by what needs your response, what it can draft for you, and what's noise. Replies land as drafts in Outlook's compose pane with recipients, subject, and body filled in. Calendar invites check attendee availability and open in Outlook's native event form.

Open an attachment in Word or Excel and Claude already knows what the sender asked for. You review every reply and calendar invite before it goes out, and nothing goes out until you click send.

Deploying Claude for Microsoft 365 across your organization 

Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available, with the controls IT admins and organizations need. One AppSource listing covers Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and a separate listing adds Outlook in beta. Admins can deploy both from the Microsoft admin center.

Enterprise admins can configure OpenTelemetry to stream prompts, tool calls, and document references to their own collector, so security teams see exactly what Claude does across every app. The Analytics API breaks out activity per user, per app, per day.

Organizations can access all four add-ins with a Claude account, or route traffic through an existing LLM gateway to Claude models running on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft 365 Copilot customers can also work with Claude AI models directly within Excel and PowerPoint.

How organizations use Claude for Microsoft 365

Getting started

All Mac and Windows users on paid plans can access Claude for Microsoft 365. Claude for Outlook is available in beta on all paid plans. Admins can deploy these add-ins from Microsoft AppSource through the Microsoft admin center.