Google develops various capabilities for improving people’s work performance.
In 2023, Google initiated and launched several functions and features to improve work capabilities, communication and collaboration among teams. So we would like to review and share with you again the most helpful tips on Google Workspace for each application: how their innovations promote people’s work performance and foster team connection.
Gmail
1. Schedule Meeting Time Easier and Faster from Your Gmail
2. Mail Merge in Gmail Integrates with Google Sheet
Google Drive
3. Improve the Security for Spam Protection in Google Drive
4. Catch up Faster on Recent Activities in Your Google Drive
Google Docs
5. Improve Your Work Efficiency with New Features from Smart Canvas
6. Improve Table Management Experience in Google Docs
7. Google Improving Tool Discovery in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides
Google Sheet
8. Enjoy Richer Experience from New Smart Chips in Google Sheet
Google Form
9. Using Response Validation to Set Your Rules on Google Form
Google Calendar
10. Analyze How You Spend Time for the Meeting via “Time Insights”
Gmail
1. Schedule Meeting Time Easier and Faster from Your Gmail
Whenever you want to schedule meeting time with the other, especially during hybrid work mode, have you ever counted how many times sending emails meeting invitations back- and-forth until the process is completed? Are you looking for a way to find common available time with customers, partners or people in organizations whose Google Calendars are invisible? If so, why won’t you try the latest update; “Time slot selection in Gmail”?
2. Mail Merge in Gmail Integrates with Google Sheet
Are you looking for ways to send personalized email communications such as campaigns, newsletters and announcements with custom fields inserted into mail merge messages to a large audience? Instead of manually adding the recipients in Gmail, would you like to directly link Google Sheets to your mail and it refers to the recipients directly from the spreadsheet? If so, Google just launched the latest update; Google Sheets can support mail merge in Gmail now.
Google Drive
3. Improve the Security for Spam Protection in Google Drive
Google expands spam protection to Drive, increasing cyber security. Users lessen worries about spam files, and control their contents better due to the latest update spam folder in Drive.
4. Catch up Faster on Recent Activities in Your Google Drive
If you are busy all day spending time managing many projects, attending various meetings with teams and customers, it will be difficult to stay on top of any updates on documents edited among your teams. Would it be better if you can find reminders and stay on top of the updates and follow up current activities on your documents?
Google Docs
5. Improve Your Work Efficiency with New Features from Smart Canvas
New smart canvas features on Google Docs and Sheets enable your work efficiency. Recently, Google just enabled the latest features to smart chips for Google Sheets and Docs, including, “place chips”, “finance chips”, “@date capability” for Sheets, and “stopwatch chips” for Google Docs respectively. It allows you to spare time for other tasks, improving productivity among the team.
6. Improve Table Management Experience in Google Docs
Have you ever been frustrated by arranging tables in documents? Especially, when you want to move tables surrounded by your text causing overlap among the messages. It might take a long time to organize the appropriate format. Then, are you looking for more flexible ways to control the layouts of text with tables in Docs? If so, there are newly launched features from Google to manage table positioning on documents. You can now handle tables in page format easier than before.
7.Google Improving Tool Discovery in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides
Easily search for features or common used tools in your Docs, Sheets and Slides. Save time finding tools quicker than usual with the latest improvements on Tool Discovery.
Google Sheet
8. Enjoy Richer Experience from New Smart Chips in Google Sheet
New update smart chips in Google Sheet; YouTube chips and smart chips data extraction allow users to track and organize data easily with information from, people, files, events, and content management.
Google Form
9. Using Response Validation to Set Your Rules on Google Form
When you collect customers’ feedback by Google Form, have you ever felt a headache on any answers that you didn’t expect? For example, a reply with a phone number instead of an email? Or you just wanted a short explanation but the respondents answered too long messages? If you feel displeased, why won’t you try “Response validation”?
Google Calendar
10. Analyze How You Spend Time for the Meeting via “Time Insights”
As everyone knows, effective meetings will help your team to deliver quality work promoting team success. However, have you ever counted or calculated how much time you spend for the meeting every month?… Some people might have several meetings on their schedules which affects working time leading to meeting overload. As a result, it is quite important to be aware and decide how much time they should spend in meetings or focus on performing their own tasks.
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