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Excel MCP token usage

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I recently started testing different models in LM Studio and settled on Gemma 4 12B. After starting a financial chat I wanted to link it up to Excel so set up the MCP. as soon as I do this it takes up 70% of my token usage (set to 32,000 context). It has guided me through with disabling unused Exce…

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