The future of Excel is finally now.
Well, this was life changing and already worth upgrading to paid Pro - thank you!
Makes me happy to hear :)
I take it you use Excel every day?
Ruben, we all get told off by you each week - on things we are not doing right with AI 🤣 thanks for keeping us all in check!! Much appreciated!
You're welcome :)
Keep reading. Keep doing. That's all that matters.
Claude is quietly becoming the Apple of AI.
Apple never said "here's a phone with a 12MP camera and A17 chip." They said, "Here's how you take better photos of your kids."
Claude does the same thing:
They didn't hype "expanded context management." They shipped Projects - now I upload 10 docs, and Claude actually duplicates my entire brain.
They didn't demo "spreadsheet integration coming Q3." They shipped Claude Excel - now I don’t have to learn Excel, and I never did.
Every release answers one question: "What can you do with this today?"
No research papers. No benchmark flexing.
Just tools that work, released when they're ready.
Claude just built good stuff.
They're meeting where people are. Excel is just the start.
And yes, most people still don't know Claude has projects. Such a cool feature to miss out on.
While ChatGPT is doing a Blackberry.
Really useful article, thanks!
Really glad to hear, Tom.
Will you be testing it out today? :)
Not until I finish work and xan get to play on my personal laptop. But yes, today. 😁
I wish this existed a few years ago. I was drowning in Excel files back then.
I don't use Excel every day anymore. But I know this is huge for anyone who does.
That "explain this formula in plain English" feature alone. I would have killed for that instead of googling something I still didn't understand.
Google gives you the generic definition. Not what the formula actually does in your spreadsheet.
Well, people won’t have to use Google anymore.
Does it do formatting? Like I have a few columns but no colors, formatting and such. Does it doe something like: make these look pretty for presentation?
Advanced things like full table styles, themes, or heavy visual polish are not fully supported yet.
Too bad, It would be nice to have AI do that part
This is probably one of the biggest wow moments of ai adoption, especially in the corporate world
Everyone getting productive in Excel is going to change the corporate world for sure.
AI is finally touching the tools people actually use at work.
Saw this going viral and was waiting for your piece about it.
It's a genuine step forward now. People have a working option for using AI for Excel.
Just heaven for debugging formulas and cleaning messy data.
Debugging formulas and cleaning messy data are things that eat hours.
Now you just ask. It’ll show you. Then you can fix it.
Finally- thanks a lot 🙌🤝👏
this is going to save hours and it’s the tax season too 🤣
serious note, reporting to execs will take much less time . Thanks, very informational
No more reformatting. Or copy-pasting from ChatGPT into a spreadsheet.
Enjoy tax season (I know, weird thing to say) :)
😁
Thanks for your very informative and helpful post, Ruben.
Appreciate it :)
any preference for future newsletters?
is there any way to get beyond the rate limit without paying extra? i have a pro account but get stuck by rate limits, very annoying
Start new chats often. Try using different models like Sonnet or Haiku.
Opus usage drain fast.
C’est ultra puissant, j’adore Claude, j’adore Excel, j’adore Claude-Excel
It’s worth the switch :)
I haven’t used ChatGPT for a while now.
I am thinking to change to Claude from GPT ! What do you think?
Yes, and here’s why: https://ruben.substack.com/p/quit-chatgpt
It depends on use case, but for text and coding, Opus 4.5 is king.
The built-in gemini for google sheets - is it as good? or is there claude for sheets as well?
Yup, called Gemini in Google Sheets.
There’s Claude for Sheets extension too.
It gives me an error every time for the add-in 😩
Still relatively new. Has it worked now? :)
Do you know how safe your data is, when using it with sensitive data?
Don't upload it without heavy anonymization.
Well, this was life changing and already worth upgrading to paid Pro - thank you!
Makes me happy to hear :)
I take it you use Excel every day?
Ruben, we all get told off by you each week - on things we are not doing right with AI 🤣 thanks for keeping us all in check!! Much appreciated!
You're welcome :)
Keep reading. Keep doing. That's all that matters.
Claude is quietly becoming the Apple of AI.
Apple never said "here's a phone with a 12MP camera and A17 chip." They said, "Here's how you take better photos of your kids."
Claude does the same thing:
They didn't hype "expanded context management." They shipped Projects - now I upload 10 docs, and Claude actually duplicates my entire brain.
They didn't demo "spreadsheet integration coming Q3." They shipped Claude Excel - now I don’t have to learn Excel, and I never did.
Every release answers one question: "What can you do with this today?"
No research papers. No benchmark flexing.
Just tools that work, released when they're ready.
Claude just built good stuff.
They're meeting where people are. Excel is just the start.
And yes, most people still don't know Claude has projects. Such a cool feature to miss out on.
While ChatGPT is doing a Blackberry.
Really useful article, thanks!
Really glad to hear, Tom.
Will you be testing it out today? :)
Not until I finish work and xan get to play on my personal laptop. But yes, today. 😁
I wish this existed a few years ago. I was drowning in Excel files back then.
I don't use Excel every day anymore. But I know this is huge for anyone who does.
That "explain this formula in plain English" feature alone. I would have killed for that instead of googling something I still didn't understand.
Google gives you the generic definition. Not what the formula actually does in your spreadsheet.
Well, people won’t have to use Google anymore.
Does it do formatting? Like I have a few columns but no colors, formatting and such. Does it doe something like: make these look pretty for presentation?
Advanced things like full table styles, themes, or heavy visual polish are not fully supported yet.
Too bad, It would be nice to have AI do that part
This is probably one of the biggest wow moments of ai adoption, especially in the corporate world
Everyone getting productive in Excel is going to change the corporate world for sure.
AI is finally touching the tools people actually use at work.
Saw this going viral and was waiting for your piece about it.
It's a genuine step forward now. People have a working option for using AI for Excel.
Just heaven for debugging formulas and cleaning messy data.
Debugging formulas and cleaning messy data are things that eat hours.
Now you just ask. It’ll show you. Then you can fix it.
Finally- thanks a lot 🙌🤝👏
this is going to save hours and it’s the tax season too 🤣
serious note, reporting to execs will take much less time . Thanks, very informational
No more reformatting. Or copy-pasting from ChatGPT into a spreadsheet.
Enjoy tax season (I know, weird thing to say) :)
😁
Thanks for your very informative and helpful post, Ruben.
Appreciate it :)
any preference for future newsletters?
is there any way to get beyond the rate limit without paying extra? i have a pro account but get stuck by rate limits, very annoying
Start new chats often. Try using different models like Sonnet or Haiku.
Opus usage drain fast.
C’est ultra puissant, j’adore Claude, j’adore Excel, j’adore Claude-Excel
It’s worth the switch :)
I haven’t used ChatGPT for a while now.
I am thinking to change to Claude from GPT ! What do you think?
Yes, and here’s why: https://ruben.substack.com/p/quit-chatgpt
It depends on use case, but for text and coding, Opus 4.5 is king.
The built-in gemini for google sheets - is it as good? or is there claude for sheets as well?
Yup, called Gemini in Google Sheets.
There’s Claude for Sheets extension too.
It gives me an error every time for the add-in 😩
Still relatively new. Has it worked now? :)
Do you know how safe your data is, when using it with sensitive data?
Don't upload it without heavy anonymization.