Google Workspace Updates
Collaborate more seamlessly with live pointers in Google Slides
📢 Workspace Update
Collaborate more seamlessly with live pointers in Google Slides | Scheduled Release: October 3, 2023
-See other collaborators mouse pointers in real time when editing Slides
Differentiate messages better with additional modernizations in Google Chat
Differentiate messages better with additional modernizations in Google Chat | Scheduled Release: October 3, 2023
Affected Application(s): Chat & Spaces
Summary: Streamlining how messages appear and flow in Chat and Spaces.
Lock files more easily in Google Drive
Lock files more easily in Google Drive | Scheduled Release Date: September 20, 2023
Affected Application(s): Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
Summary: Easily lock files in Drive, enhancing the Approvals workflow
Evolving collaboration in Google Chat with smart chips
Evolving collaboration in Google Chat with smart chips | Scheduled Release: September 15, 2023
Affected Application(s): Chat and Spaces
Summary: Use Smart Chips “@” in Chat and Spaces
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Enhancing tool discovery in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Enhancing tool discovery in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides | Scheduled Release: Now Available
Affected Application(s): Docs, Sheets, Slides
Summary: Quickly locate relevant features or functionality using your own words from a simplified location on the toolbar, without the need to navigate through menus.
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Previous Google Workspace Updates
Reorganizing the file and folder menu in Google Drive | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Drive
Summary: Streamlined popup menu when right clicking a file or folder in Drive, no changes to existing functionality.
Easily set up dropdown chips in Google Sheets with a new pre-fill feature | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Sheets
Summary: Quickly create dropdown chips from data in your Sheet
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Add annotations to your presentations in Google Slides | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Slides
Summary: With the new pen tool, annotate or make quick notes directly on your Slides presentation.
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Quickly schedule 1:1 meetings over Email | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Calendar, Gmail
Summary: Quickly share your availability and schedule 1:1 meetings from an email with the new Calendar feature (icon) in Gmail
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Add hyperlinks to text in Google Chat | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Chat, Spaces
Summary: Add hyperlinks in Chat and Spaces
Access Alt-text options in image options | Now Available
Affected Application(s): Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings)
Summary: Now add alt-text via the image options sidebar in addition to right-clicking the image
Google News | Easily find tools, revamped Drive menu and more! (8/31/2023)
Google News | Save Time by Scheduling Meetings Directly in Gmail (July 26, 2023)