Claude can now jump between Excel and PowerPoint on its own

Anthropic now lets Claude switch independently between Excel and PowerPoint, for example, running an analysis and then building a presentation directly from the results. The company is also expanding Cowork for enterprise customers with private plugin marketplaces, letting admins curate and distribute plugin collections to specific teams. New templates cover HR, design, engineering, finance, asset management, and more.

In finance, new MCP interfaces for FactSet and MSCI provide real-time market data and index analysis; S&P Global (Capital IQ Pro) and LSEG have contributed their own plugins.

New third-party integrations include Google Workspace, DocuSign, Salesforce, Slack, and FactSet. Admins gain finer user-access controls plus OpenTelemetry support for cost and usage monitoring. The Excel-PowerPoint feature is available as a research preview on all paid plans. Cowork is Anthropic's desktop tool for agent-based office work; plugins were added in late January but have known security vulnerabilities.