Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Claude Code Excel Issues
Users are reporting frustrating issues with Claude Code's Excel integration, including rate limits, difficult onboarding, and restrictive usage limits.
The excel usage has to be some kind of bug... I can't get more than 5min into basic tasks in excel before rate limits are hit. I can churn for a decent run in Claude Code on complex tasks before hitting limits, but that excel plugin is the ultimate token destroyer.
I decided to download Excel to try Claude Code has an excel plugin. Being able to download excel was so hard I quit. What a shit onboarding. First their human verification didn't work, then they didn't let me change region to pay with a US card. I quit
W The usage limits of Claude are unfortunately what they are right now - PRO version The limits unfortunately show up pretty quickly, but no point complaining, it is what it is I've got Gemini PRO subscribed and actually also GPT because they super complement each other in