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Claude, meet Clippy. If you have Microsoft Word, you can now use the Anthropic AI assistant Claude Within the program as an alternative to Co-pilotCompany Advertise in a post on LinkedIn.
The add-on is now available to Claude customers who have… a team or project Plans, which are free to try. The feature is currently in beta testing, and Anthropic has not specified when it will be rolled out more widely.
Companies use the trial period to test new products with a smaller subset of people to catch bugs, measure ease of use, and get feedback. Then, they can make repairs and refine the product before releasing it more widely.
Anthropic continues to involve Claude in different software tools in the workplace. The AI assistant launches in June 2024 Available in Google Workspace software Such as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. Claude could be like that Integrated in Slack, the communication and collaboration platform.
Last week, Anthropic announced that I have an agent tool Claude Cowork Now available on paid plans for both MacOS and Windows.
For many Word users, Claude could be a welcome alternative to Copilot, the AI assistant that Microsoft launched in February 2023. It is reportedly losing ground to rivalsAnd it’s ubiquitous in Windows 11 and many other Microsoft programs It has been a sore point for some customers.
Copilot isn’t the first Microsoft Word assistant to piss people off. People of a certain age will remember Clippy, the digital assistant built into Word in 1996. Although it is now considered a symbol of nostalgia, Clippy angered Word users At that time, useless suggestions often appeared, and it was difficult to disable them.
Clippy was no longer enabled by default on April 11, 2001, but now it is Now available as an extension for Chrome – Appears when you visit a web page (for display only, as it does not provide any assistance).
In its announcement this week, Anthropic said Claude, like a co-pilot, can perform a variety of tasks. You can Create new content and help edit existing documents. To create documents, you can “open your template and describe what you need.” To edit existing documents, you can “highlight a paragraph and tell Claude to tighten it, change the tone, or cut out the passive voice,” and he can identify broken cross-references.
Anthropic also touted Claude’s ability to work with comments that others might add to a document. The company said that Cloud can read and analyze comments, then respond to them according to instructions.
In an example from an advertisementClaude was asked to “summarize what the partner’s attorney changed” in the mutual nondisclosure agreement. Claude then listed several changes made to the NDA, including two that were potentially “deal-breakers.” The client asked Claude to undo these changes and send the new contract language to the other party.
There were several comments on Anthropic’s LinkedIn post about Claude’s add-in for Word. “Sometimes Claude decides on his own to create an MS Office document,” one person complained, while another commented, “I love seeing it and have been waiting for this version.”