Soon after Google Docs gained Gemini-powered Audio Summaries, the Google Workspace tool is now gaining several new AI-enabled features that aim to help you go “from blank page to brilliance.”
The tech giant alludes that Docs has slowly been evolving from a traditional word processor into a collaborator that understands context, and today’s update double downs on that.
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Today’s update is powered by Workplace Intelligence, which is Google’s new broad term for Workspace tech that “understands complex semantic relationships within your Workspace apps (such as Docs, Slides, or Gmail) content, your active projects, your collaborators, and your organization’s domain knowledge.”
Essentially, it turns your scattered emails, chats, files, and other Workspace app data into a cohesive knowledge graph. It then leverages said knowledge graph to help you with your needs. In this case, that is Google Docs’ Help me create, Help me write, and Match writing style features.
- The upgraded Help me create experience enables you to generate relevant, fully formatted first drafts that synthesize information from your files, emails, chat, and the web.
- With Help me write, simply prompt Gemini from the new bottom bar or side panel to make edits across your doc, or select text to focus Gemini’s attention. Gemini’s suggested edits are only visible to you until you approve them.
- Match writing style helps maintain a consistent tone and style across your entire doc, no matter how many people are working on it.
To edit existing docs, hover over the spark (Gemini) icon and type in your prompt.
Elsewhere, Google Docs now also has ‘Match doc format.’ If you’re looking to edit or create a new document, but in the style of an existing doc that you’ve already refined, this feature is a big time-saver for you.
With the new feature, Gemini can now mirror a source document “to generate content that adheres to the original’s formatting (e.g., fonts and colors) and structural elements (e.g., headings and table columns).”
Improvements to existing features and the arrival of new ones will be accessible in English first, with Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean support to follow soon after.
Expect widespread support sometime by mid-May across Business Standard & Plus, Enterprise Standard & Plus, Education Plus, Google AI Pro & Ultra tiers.
