Anthropic adds a collaborative spreadsheet and whiteboards to Claude. Launched in beta since yesterday, Sheets and Blackboards allows you to work directly on editable documents, while the panel tool becomes Claude Data. These new features are offered to paying subscribers, with different restrictions depending on features and pro accounts.
A spreadsheet that can be corrected without having to go through a conversation
Claude already knew how to create files and spreadsheets. Sheets changes where the work continues: the user now has an editable grid in Claude, with its cells and formulas, instead of simply grabbing a file to open elsewhere. You can request a transformation from the wizard and then intervene in the result yourself.
This alternation responds to the common use of generative tools. A natural language request can speed up budgeting or project tracking; Modifying a specific cell is usually easier in a spreadsheet. Keeping formulas visible also allows you to examine the calculation produced. The interface thus maintains verifiable work, instead of an encrypted response whose steps would remain blocked in the conversation.
The beta version supports importing CSV, Excel, and Google Sheets files, as well as exporting to CSV or XLSX. A sheet can contain up to 100,000 cells. Anthropic lists 144 functions, but pivot tables, VBA macros, Power Query, and protected ranges are not available. These absences limit Sheets’ interest in taking up a complex workbook without adaptation.
The sheet is private when created and can then be shared explicitly. Previous versions can be restored. On mobile devices, the documentation currently advertises a basic read-only query – full editing remains a matter of the browser or desktop app.
Whiteboards organize ideas before they become results
Whiteboards point to the stage that often precedes the neat whiteboard: a preparation meeting, scattered notes, groupings of ideas. Several participants can intervene in the same space in real time. Claude can help organize this content, highlight responsibilities or prepare a schedule; The user can also select an area of the table to query the wizard only about that part.
Painting does not intend to remain a documentary dead end. Anthropic plans its transformation into a document or presentation, as well as exchanges with Lucid, Miro and Vani. The documentation also mentions exporting to PNG. However, existing whiteboard files cannot be imported as such in this first version. Therefore, an already equipped team will need to examine their recovery needs before moving their work.
Claude Data distinguishes shared results from underlying data
The dashboard tool introduced in beta in October will be generally available under the name Claude Data. It relies in particular on connections to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Redshift or ClickHouse. Its interest is to bring together queries, graphs and your query, without the need for each recipient of a panel to directly manipulate the database.
Live sharing, still in beta, allows readers to view approved results without giving them access to the underlying data. Refreshments are adjustable through the dash; A follow-up of the modifications and a return to the previous state is planned. This control becomes essential when a shared document evolves after being sent, as opposed to a simple frozen capture.
These additions expand connections to professional applications already integrated into Claude. They also arrive at a time when Google is opening Antigravity to office work: attendees are now looking to welcome the work itself and no longer just answer the questions that accompany it.
Business-specific settings
Sheets and whiteboards are enabled by default for Team Spaces, but disabled by default in Enterprise, where an administrator must authorize their use. Requests consume subscription usage limits. Therefore, access to a function does not constitute an additional calculation envelope independent of the package.
Sheets documentation excludes HIPAA settings, customer-managed encryption keys, and zero data retention at launch. Organizations that rely on these guarantees cannot treat this beta version as an out-of-the-box replacement for their existing tools.
