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XLSX Spreadsheet Toolkit

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Official skill for reading, editing, and building Excel/CSV files with real formulas, professional formatting, and verified zero formula errors.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate167,13219,920AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 7, 2026

What it does

  • Opens, reads, edits, and creates .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, and .tsv files using openpyxl, pandas, and markitdown.
  • Writes live formulas (SUM, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, IFERROR) instead of hardcoded Python results, so workbooks recalculate when inputs change.
  • Runs scripts/recalc.py through LibreOffice to recalculate everything and report #REF! / #NAME? / #DIV/0! counts until the file is clean.
  • Cleans messy tabular data — malformed rows, misplaced headers, junk columns — into a proper structured sheet.
  • Applies financial-modeling conventions: blue inputs, black formulas, green cross-sheet links, yellow key assumptions, $#,##0 currency and 0.0% percent formats.

Who it's for

  • Analysts automating recurring Excel reports.
  • Finance folks building three-statement or valuation models that must follow color and assumption conventions.
  • Data owners consolidating scattered CSVs into one tidy workbook.
  • Anyone who needs to add columns to an existing file without breaking its formatting or formulas.

Examples

  1. "Add a month-over-month growth column and a totals row to the sales xlsx in my Downloads" — existing styles preserved, formulas added, recalc verified clean.
  2. "Turn this three-year P&L into a five-year projection model" — separate assumptions cells, color conventions, currency/percent formatting.
  3. "This CSV has headers on row 4 and blank junk rows — clean it up and give me a proper spreadsheet."

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/xlsx folder from the GitHub repo anthropics/skills into my ~/.claude/skills/xlsx/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r skills/skills/xlsx ~/.claude/skills/

This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill in: cp -r skills/skills/xlsx ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Install LibreOffice so formula recalculation works — macOS: brew install --cask libreoffice, Ubuntu: sudo apt install libreoffice.
  6. Restart Claude Code and mention a spreadsheet file (e.g. "fix the totals in report.xlsx") — the skill triggers automatically.