Bridge Your Data and Slides with Cross-App Context
Sync data context between Excel and PowerPoint for seamless presentations.
Install the Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint to allow the AI to maintain a shared context across both apps for synchronized data analysis and presentation building.
The Scenario
You have a complex Excel sheet full of data and you need to present the findings to your team using a PowerPoint deck immediately. You want the AI to understand the numbers in Excel and format them into slides without manual data entry.
Before & after
Manually extracting key data from an Excel workbook and copy-pasting it into a PowerPoint presentation with appropriate formatting usually takes 45–90 minutes.
By linking Excel and PowerPoint via Claude Cowork, Claude can summarize the spreadsheet and build the corresponding slides in 5–7 minutes.
The Prompt
Using the context from my open Excel file [FILE_NAME], please summarize the key [METRICS/TRENDS] and then generate a 5-slide PowerPoint deck that highlights [SPECIFIC_GOAL].
The Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint can now share context, meaning Claude knows what data you're looking at in one while you work in the other.
Source
Release notes | Claude Help Center"every action Claude takes in one application is informed by everything that’s happened in the other."