Claude comes to Google Workspace: Here’s how to edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Anthropic introduced 'Claude for Google Workspace' on Tuesday, October 6, allowing users to interact with Claude AI directly within Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The service is available in public beta for all paid Claude plans. Claude can be accessed via a sidebar next to a Google file, eliminating the need for constant app or browser tab switching.

When Claude is opened, it can read the active Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide, recognize selected text, cells, or slides, and make changes right in the document. In Google Docs, Claude can correct sentences, restyle headings, suggest edits to larger documents, and even generate executive summaries and tables. In Google Sheets, it can write formulas, create pivot tables, build native charts, and add new tabs.

Users can also attach source files and request reports, such as a Q3 budget vs. actuals report with individual tabs for each team and a summary chart. In Google Slides, Claude can create new slides with matching layouts and themes, flag overlapping or off-slide elements, and identify hard-to-read text. Claude operates in two modes: 'Ask before edits', which requires user approval for each change, and 'Accept all edits', which applies changes automatically without stopping.

Claude for Google Workspace is available to all Claude subscribers. To use the AI assistant with Google files, users must first install Claude from the Google Workspace Marketplace, open a file, go to Extensions, and then select Claude. Admins can deploy the AI assistant to their entire domain or specific groups through the Google Admin console. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner or primary owner must enable the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors before users can edit files.