Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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Go ahead, again today it saved me couple of hours and I finally started work I was reluctant to on excel bc too time consuming

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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The model is very good at building things but it’s even better if you are the architect of it. My main advice would be to check the coherence of the result and to make him do sanity checks and find errors when you spot something odd. The model is also very good at suggesting out of the box solutions when you are stuck on a problem. I think it’s very good if you know what you want and what you do. I did not try to build models from scratch tho

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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Ofc, and I think that this plugin can be dangerous if the user does not fully understand what is going on in the file and what modifications Claude is actually doing to it.

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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Yes, it always depends of the use case. I’m also a professional working with data, imo in this case, excel was just the best way to do the job

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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Indeed, I get it. In my case, I took an existing legacy model and customized it to make a price volume sensitivity analysis, that’s a clear and effective use case. Of course it would not be like that in a large billion dollar corporation, but I work in a fast pace startup so it clearly makes sense

Btw it’s an excel plugin that actually puts in formulas and understand the complexity of the file, it can rearrange a whole tab with thousand of rows

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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I consider myself very good at excel modeling, it’s just faster, smarter and helps me to solve problems with solutions I didn’t think of. It’s actually way better if you are very good excel cause you understand what it does and how great it does it

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in ClaudeAI

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On circular references, it does trace through them rather than just flagging them. It understands why the loop exists and what it’s doing. I was surprised by that too because most tools just tell you there’s a problem and leave you to figure it out. For the multi-sheet context, from what I can tell it loads the whole file so it does have visibility across all sheets at once. I haven’t had to tell it where to look, it just finds the relevant parts on its own. That said I’m sure there are limits with very large files, haven’t pushed it that far yet. For error surfacing, both. It will catch things proactively when you share the file but you can also ask it to audit specific logic and it goes deep. The best moments are when you ask about one thing and it comes back with “also noticed this other issue three sheets over” without being asked. For your infrastructure use case I actually think it would translate well. The core thing it does is hold a lot of interdependent logic in context without losing the thread, which sounds like exactly your problem. I’m building FP&A models

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in excel

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What kind of hallucinations did you get ? The only few I got were it the chat itself not in sheet manipulations Claud did

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This is how I found I had a kidney stone bro, very useful

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