Google expands Gemini AI features in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

Investing.com - Google announced on Tuesday that it is expanding Gemini AI features within its productivity applications, offering Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers tools designed to automate document creation, spreadsheet management, and presentation design.

The company stated that Gemini can now access information from user files, emails, and online resources to generate customized content while maintaining data security. These features are being launched in a worldwide beta starting Tuesday in English, available for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, with a Google Drive version released in the United States.

In Google Docs, users can request Gemini to create documents by describing their needs, such as drafting newsletters using meeting notes and activity lists from existing files. The AI can optimize specific sections or entire documents and match writing styles across documents. A new feature allows Gemini to reference document formatting, such as filling in travel itinerary templates with flight information and hotel details from emails.

Google Sheets now enables users to create complete spreadsheets through text prompts. Users can ask Gemini to organize projects, such as creating a moving checklist, extract contact information from emails, and track quotes in their inbox. The “Fill with Gemini” feature can generate text, categorize data, and access real-time information from Google Search to populate spreadsheets, such as automatically filling in college application deadlines and tuition details.

In Google Slides, Gemini can generate a single slide that matches the presentation theme and extract context from files, emails, and online resources. The AI can adjust slide designs to match the presentation’s color scheme or create minimalist layouts. Google stated that they are developing a feature to create entire presentations from a single prompt.

The Ask Gemini feature in Google Drive provides an AI overview at the top of search results, summarizing relevant information from files with citations. Users can ask questions across documents, emails, calendars, and online resources, such as requesting tax-related guidance based on their stored files.

These features are available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, with enterprise users able to access them through Google Workspace. Google also plans to expand these features to more languages.

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