Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #27 / 29-NOV-23

Create shareable video presentations in Google Slides

Google is introducing slides recordings, a new Google Slides feature that lets you easily record yourself presenting, and then share the presentation with others to view when it works for them. From webinars, to employee trainings, to lessons for your classroom, slides recordings help you effortlessly record visual and engaging presentations without ever leaving Slides.

Introducing a new homepage view in Google Drive

Over the years, Google has added features to Drive that help you more efficiently find files and folders. In October, Google launched a new view in Google Drive that shows all pending access requests, recent comments, and approvals for files to help you quickly see recent activity and take action, all in one place. Now, Google is excited to introduce the latest series of changes that accelerate user productivity across new views in Drive. A new streamlined homepage for Drive called Home makes it easier and faster for you to find files that matter most.

The next evolution of automated data entry in Google Sheets

Enhanced Smart Fill in Google Sheets is now available for customers with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on. This builds upon Smart Fill in Google Sheets, a feature introduced in 2020 that detects patterns between columns and suggests data for remaining cells using Google’s Knowledge Graph. Enhanced Smart Fill will continue Google’s efforts to help users spend less time on manual data organization and analysis in Sheets.

Expanding message bubbles in Google Chat to iOS devices

In September, Google introduced message bubbles in Google Chat on web and Android, enabling users to more easily differentiate incoming versus outgoing messages in the Chat message stream. Now, Google has announced the expansion of message bubbles to iOS devices. On your phone or tablet, each incoming message will have an independent message bubble aligned to one side with a solid color background, and each outgoing message will have an independent message bubble aligned to the other side with a different color background.

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