Getting the most out of information across all your Google Workspace apps will soon be a lot easier thanks to a major update to Gemini.
The AI tool will now be able to search Google Docs, Sheets, Slide, and Drive to find the details you need, saving hours of searching through your files and conquering what the company calls “the dread of the blinking cursor.”
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Gemini in the workspace
“Today, we’re reimagining how people create content, transforming Gemini across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive into a collaborative partner that works alongside you throughout the creative process. Using insights from your emails, chats, files, and more, Gemini helps you draft, iterate, and refine your work,” read a Google blog post announcing the launch.
Among the new additions is a new Help Me Create experience in Docs, available in the side panel or a new bottom bar, that will allow users to describe what they want to create, and Gemini will bring in information from Drive, Gmail, Chat, and the web to generate a first draft.
This initial result can then be edited or adjusted with the existing Help Me Write tool, adding an additional brightness or more focused tone, which can also be helped by Gemini’s ability to match the formatting or tone of the most used or accessed documents.
In Sheets, Gemini can now create and edit entire spreadsheets from a single natural language message, such as developing a financial summary sheet using information from existing documents and presentations. The new Fill with Gemini tool can auto-populate using summarized, categorized, or new data from your existing sheet or the web much faster than manual entry.
Gemini can also generate, build and edit an entire presentation from scratch, again using just a simple prompt, before searching your workspace data for what’s needed.
Finally, Gemini will now help create AI overviews when you search Google Drive, reviewing all the necessary files and formats to provide a list of what it thinks will be the most relevant findings for your needs.
Gemini’s new features are now rolling out in beta, and Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers are the first to get access. It will be available in English globally for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and in the US for Google Drive.
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