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TL;DR Docs, Drive, Sheets, and Slides are all getting some new Gemini-powered drafting, editing, and feedback tools.
Users can treat old documents as templates for quickly creating new versions with the same style.
Access gets started in beta for Google AI Ultra and Pro paid users.
For all the flashy stuff AI can do, like generating 3D worlds from scratch, it’s arguably at its most useful when it’s targeting a much lower bar, looking to help automate the sort of routine tasks that cross our desks over and over again. This week Google is sharing a whole lot of Gemini updates for Workspace that absolutely fit that bill, trying to make creating and editing files as stress-free as possible.
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How many times have you started a task by opening a copy of an old document? Maybe you want to borrow the structure, or refer to it to check on the formatting you’re supposed to use. Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and Gemini in Docs is working on perfecting that same trick itself. When drafting something new, you’ll be able to point it to old docs for sourcing either content or structure. You can even explicitly use “Match doc format” when you’re looking to treat an existing doc as your template.
Once you have at least a draft put together, you can further use Gemini in Docs to refine it, highlighting passages and describing tonal tweaks you’d like Google’s AI to perform.
Spreadsheets are frequently a headache for all but a few die-hard enthusiasts, but Gemini in Sheets aims to make them much more accessible by making them as hands-off as possible. That means you can just describe the sort of information you want in a Sheet to Gemini, and it will set it all up for you — it can even pull data from the web in order to start populating fields, saving you from a lot of copy-and-pasting. And just in case you’re worried about the quality of that data, Gemini can show you where’s it’s getting it all from.
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