Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Claude for Google Workspace™ is now in public beta on all paid Claude plans. It adds Claude to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, so that you can work with Claude directly in your open files. Additionally, we are releasing new Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors (beta) that Claude uses to create and edit Google files directly from Claude.

Claude works where you work

With the add-on, Claude opens in a sidebar next to your file, so you don’t need to switch between apps or browser tabs when you work. Claude can read the doc, sheet, or deck you have open, see which text, cells, or slides you’ve selected, and make changes directly in the file.

In Docs, for example, Claude can fix a sentence or restyle a heading in place without touching the surrounding formatting. For bigger rewrites, it can propose edits as suggestion cards in the sidebar. Each card highlights the passage it would change, and you can apply or dismiss it. You can ask Claude to tighten the executive summary of a product requirements document and turn the next steps into a table, and Claude will do both directly in the doc.

In Sheets, Claude can write formulas, build pivot tables and native Sheets charts, and add new tabs. For joins or data cleaning, it can pull a range into Python and write the results back into the sheet. You can start from an empty sheet, attach your source files, ask for a Q3 budget vs. actuals report with a tab for each team and a summary chart, and Claude can flag anything that’s over the budget.

In Slides, Claude can build new slides from your deck’s layouts and themes, so they match the rest of the deck. Then it can check its work and flag elements that overlap or run off the slide, or text that’s hard to read.

You decide how much Claude does on its own. In the default “Ask before edits” mode, each change appears as an approval card with a summary and Claude waits for your approval to make the edit. In “Accept all edits” mode, Claude works through the task and applies changes without stopping.

Your connectors, skills, and enterprise controls come with you

When you are signed in with your Claude account, the sidebar has the same models, connectors, and skills you use in Claude. For example, if you ask for a quarterly business review (QBR) deck for your customer, Claude can pull the account history from Salesforce and recent call notes through your Google Drive connector. If you save the QBR format as a skill, your team can build the next deck following the same format and steps.

On Enterprise plans, controls such as the Compliance API, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK), and OpenTelemetry audit export apply to the add-on too

Edit Google files from Claude

With the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors, also in beta, you can start in Claude and it will create and edit your Google files from the chat. Paste a Google file link or ask for a Google doc, sheet, or deck, and on supported setups it will open in a pane beside your conversation. Starting from Claude makes most sense when you need a new file or your work spans several files. Claude’s access matches your existing Google sharing permissions.

Getting started

Claude for Google Workspace is in beta on all paid plans.

Install it from the Google Workspace Marketplace, then open a file and go to Extensions > Claude > Open Claude. Admins can deploy it to their domain or selected groups from the Google Admin console. The Help Center guide covers setup.

To edit Google files from Claude, turn on the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner or primary owner needs to enable the connectors first.