Claude adds a sidebar to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in public beta
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, has opened a public beta that adds a Claude sidebar to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. According to the announcement, Claude can read the file you have open and edit it directly, and the beta is available on all paid Claude plans.
Why it matters
If your client work already lives in Google, this could end the copy-and-paste shuffle between tabs. Public beta means the feature is still being tested, and an assistant that edits directly can also change things you meant to keep.
Your moveIf you pay for Claude, check whether the sidebar appears in your Google account. Try it first on a copy of a low-stakes file, and review each edit before trusting it with client work.
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