Anthropic released Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta Tuesday, giving paying subscribers a way to build spreadsheets and work on shared boards inside Claude. The spreadsheet can handle formulas, charts and multiple tabs. Some familiar Excel tools, including pivot tables and protected ranges, are missing at launch.
The release gives people who already pay for Claude a choice about where to start a workbook. They can start a simple budget or tracker in Claude and export it when they need more control. People whose work depends on macros, live data or a particular workbook layout have more reason to keep the file in their existing spreadsheet app.
What works in Claude Sheets
Claude builds the sheet from a prompt and can edit it alongside coworkers. It outlines cells as it changes them so collaborators can see which entries it touched. Formulas live in the cells, and the help center says users can restore earlier versions. The beta supports 144 functions and can export an Excel workbook or CSV, although it cannot make a PDF export directly.
The gaps matter for established workflows. Sheets cannot pull live data from a connected app, and it cannot use a sheet as the source for a Claude dashboard. It also lacks multi-column sorts and has limited chart types. Anthropic lists macros, VBA and Power Query among the unsupported Excel features. If an existing workbook relies on any of those, keep the original in Excel. Anthropic's separate Claude for Excel add-in works in the spreadsheet app itself.
Which tools are available now
Claude Sheets is in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans. Team administrators have it enabled by default. Enterprise administrators must turn on Sheets and Whiteboards under Artifacts in Organization settings. Anthropic says the features work on the web and desktop, with read-only access for Sheets on mobile.
Whiteboards is for teams working through a plan together. Coworkers can add notes to a shared board and ask Claude to organize them into a timeline with owners and dates. Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, is now generally available and has a different purpose. It builds dashboards from connected sources such as a warehouse or CRM. It requires a data connector, and Anthropic says it will turn on by default for Enterprise organizations on Nov. 19.
Anthropic also showed Claude Meetings at its workplace event. Its launch materials list that tool as coming soon. The workplace releases follow the company's separate IPO filing.
