Claude Chrome can be very slow for Google Docs editing
may take a very long time to edit a Google Doc. A roughly three-page Google Doc was edited with an Anthropic-provided prompt and Claude’s suggestion feature, but the task took more than 2 hours and ran through 237 steps.
The document had clear headings and very few images, so it was not unusually messy. The next day, in the same chat and same document, asking for new suggestions on one paragraph took more than 15 minutes just to locate the content on the page.
The suggested edits were mostly useful and some were accepted. The problem is that the time and were too high for a simple document-editing task, and a person could likely have done it faster.
Key points
- Editing a roughly three-page Google Doc took more than 2 hours.
- The task required 237 steps to finish.
- A later request for one paragraph took over 15 minutes just to find the text.
- The edit suggestions were mostly good, but the wait and were too high.
- Breaking work into smaller chunks may be more practical than handing over a whole document.