Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese…

Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.)

Welcome to the identity crisis, fellow office workers!

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