Your AI agent. Your open Excel and Word. Less manual work.
Turn spreadsheet rows into Word/PDF documents, compare registers and review Word edits —
from the agent you already use, in the files you already have open.
30-second tour: real tool calls on real Excel and Word. All data is fictional.
## Why Office Live MCP
Works with Claude Code · Claude Desktop · Cursor · Codex CLI · ZCode · VS Code and other MCP clients
## Try it on a real task
| Ask your agent | You get |
|---|---|
| *“Generate Word documents and PDFs from this register using my template. Show the plan first.”* | [A document per row, previewed before generation](docs/examples/register-to-acts.md). Codes such as `007` stay text. |
| *“Compare these two registers by code and show what changed.”* | [Differences matched by key](docs/examples/compare-registers.md). |
| *“Read the comments in Word and propose edits. Apply them after I approve.”* | [Targeted edits recorded as tracked revisions](docs/examples/comments-to-tracked-edits.md). |
**130 tools** for Excel, Word and document workflows - formulas, data cleanup, goal seek, pivots, charts, templates,
comment threads and more. [Full catalog →](docs/TOOLS.md)
For compact responses, searches, comparisons, issue reports, formula traces and Word outlines return at most one
`officelive://` link for the whole result; request `per_match_links=true` for individual locations.
`excel_write_range` keeps its existing read-back by default. Use `readback="summary"` for shape, counts, errors and
up to five sample cells, or `readback="none"` to omit value echoes. Undo and journaling work as before.
Lay out a sheet in two calls, each with one `office_undo` entry:
```python
excel_set_dimensions(workbook="Report.xlsx", sheet="Data",
column_widths={"A": 12, "B": 24, "C": 18},
row_heights={"1": 28, "2": 20})
excel_format_ranges(workbook="Report.xlsx", sheet="Data", ranges=[
{"cells": "A1:C1", "format": {"bold": True, "fill_color": "lightblue"}},
{"cells": "B2:B336", "format": {"number_format": "0.00"}},
])
```
`excel_set_dimensions(..., cells="", autofit="columns")` fits only the used range.
Autofit rejects ranges above 100,000 cells or 1,000 affected dimensions and checks a
5-second budget between small COM calls, returning a clear error with undo for partial
changes. A synchronous Excel COM call cannot be interrupted while it is running.
## Install
> **Requirements:** Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and desktop Excel and/or Word.
1. **Download** the installer (`…-setup.exe`) from the [latest release](https://github.com/mikhalchankasm/office-live-mcp/releases/latest).
2. **Run it:** Next → Next → Finish. On a fresh install, detected agents are preselected; choose **full** or **read-only** access.
3. **Restart your agent** and ask: *“show me which workbooks are open in Excel”*.
**Update:** run the new setup.exe over the old one, or in PowerShell (agents closed):
`& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikhalchankasm/office-live-mcp/main/scripts/update.ps1)))`
— [scripts/update.ps1](scripts/update.ps1) installs the latest release silently. **Uninstall:** Settings → Apps → Office Live MCP.
**Data and costs:** the server runs locally, without an Office add-in; what your agent reads goes to its model provider,
and the agent and model are billed under that provider's terms.
## Learn more
[Full documentation](docs/DETAILS.md) · [Tool catalog](docs/TOOLS.md) · [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) ·
[Comparison with Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP servers](docs/DETAILS.md#how-it-compares) · [MIT license](LICENSE)
