Claude adds shared Sheets and Whiteboards; Data leaves beta

Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on November 10, letting paying users edit shared spreadsheets and boards with Claude and colleagues. Claude Dashboards, introduced in beta in October, is now generally available as Claude Data. Certified queries and live sharing within Data remain in beta.

Sheets puts a spreadsheet inside Claude, with tabs, formulas and formatting. People and Claude edit the same cells, and an outline marks each AI edit as it arrives. Claude for Excel instead works in files already held in Excel. Sheets can export work as .xlsx or CSV for continued editing elsewhere.

The launch version supports 144 functions and up to 100,000 cells. Pivot tables, protected ranges, macros and VBA are among its unsupported features. Sheets also lacks live imports from connected apps and cannot serve as a source for docs or dashboards. Web and desktop support editing; mobile offers basic read-only access.

Whiteboards turns speech, typing or sketches into grouped ideas and diagrams. Dictation includes Korean. Users can focus Claude on a selected region, turn a board into a document or deck, or export PNG. At launch, Claude works from the board itself, without context from connected apps.

Live data sharing stays within approved queries

Claude Data builds charts and explanatory material from company data; existing dashboards keep working. Anthropic also introduced data stories, narrated videos, design-system support, caching and tracked changes. The product needs a connected source such as a data warehouse or CRM.

Each chart shows its SQL query and last refresh time. Certified queries let teams reuse approved metric definitions. People with write access to a Data artifact can certify a query, and editing a certified query removes its certification. Existing definitions can also be supplied through supported connectors.

Live sharing lets colleagues in the same organization view results through the owner’s connection even without access to the source. It covers only approved queries needed by that dashboard; changes require an editor’s approval. Ordinary sharing uses each viewer’s own connections, so enabling live sharing changes which results colleagues can see.

Team plans have all three tools enabled by default. Enterprise owners must enable Sheets and Whiteboards. Administrators control artifacts and their individual templates; Enterprise custom roles can limit availability to selected groups. A role cannot grant a feature that is disabled for the organization.

Claude Data is scheduled to turn on by default for Enterprise on November 19, unless an owner has already saved a setting. Certified queries and live sharing have separate controls and are both off by default on Enterprise. Those settings govern the beta features independently of Data’s general availability.

Artifacts start private. Sharing offers viewing, commenting and editing access, with email invitations in beta. Invitees sign in using the invited email address. Organizations separately control outside email invitations and links that anyone can open.

Outside invitees cannot invite others or change sharing settings, even with editing access. Parts using Claude or connected apps do not work for them. These restrictions differ from collaboration between colleagues inside the organization.

Work counts toward existing Claude usage limits. Sheets currently lacks support for HIPAA configurations, customer-managed encryption keys and zero data retention. Whiteboards is unavailable to HIPAA-ready organizations. Where Claude Code has zero data retention, Whiteboards can run in chat or Cowork but is outside that guarantee.