New collaboration features in Google Workspace you should be aware of

Google Workspace provides a flexible, real-time, and collaborative environment to work together in the same digital space without the worry of sending documents back and forth. As the flexible working model has become the second nature for billions of users worldwide, Google will be introducing new features to make the experience even more seamless and powerful.

This week, Google will introduce built-in summaries, pageless formatting, new smart chips, and more new features into Google Workspace. Read more about these upcoming .

Built-in summaries

Built-in summaries in Docs allow you to quickly grasp the highlights of documents and determine where to channel your focus. By using built-in intelligence, Google Docs will now be able to suggest a summary of your document. You may also choose to manually edit and add your summary.

Pageless formatting

You can now remove the constraints of page boundaries with pageless formatting in Docs. The need for printing documents has decreased as many employees are preferring remote or hybrid work. If there is a need to print a document or convert it to PDF, you can switch back to the paginated view. Otherwise, simply scroll through any document, on any device, without those pesky page breaks and limitations.

Steps to turn on Pageless view:

File → Page Setup → In the pop-up menu select the “Pageless” tab → Press OK

Steps to turn off Pageless view:

File → Page Setup → select the “Pages” tab

Interactive building blocks

The smart canvas in Google Docs makes it simple to pull important information directly into your document using @-mentions. By expanding the “@” menu, Google makes it easier to insert additional building blocks of any doc, like templates, key people, and places. Hence, it can help you work faster.

New templates save time and energy

With the introduction of new templates, you now save your time and focus on getting the job done.

• The email draft template will help you collaborate with your team to draft an email that will be sent out broadly.
• The meeting notes template will automatically import into a Google Doc, the relevant information from a Calendar meeting invite including attendees. Hence, this will eliminate the manual work and channel your focus on other important works.

 New smart chips

• You can preview a Google Maps link directly in Docs with the new Maps smart chip.
• By adding people chips to Sheets, you can quickly view helpful information of your fellow collaborators, like location, job title, contact info, etc.

Hence, these clickable objections that pull relevant information, help you build context and richer documents.

Source credit: Google

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