User asks Claude: can it now edit existing files instead of always creating new ones?
thejasminejade · x · 2026-10-07
After Anthropic announced that Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides — sitting in a sidebar, reading the open file and editing it in place with per-edit approval — a user asks whether it can now edit existing files, since it used to always create new ones. A practical question about the product's capability boundary.
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