Updated smart canvas features on Google Docs and Sheets boost your work productivity.
Google has launched smart canvas since May 2021, a collection of collaborative tools making your work experience more flexible and helpful. It provides the effectiveness of teams’ communication and collaboration, increasing more creativity and work performance.
Along with smart canvas, smart chips would be one of most useful features, and gain good feedback from many users. The interactive hyperlinks chips enhance team’s collaboration. It can show more related information, and connect you to other users, files, or calendar events etc… 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.
New smart chips for Google Sheets:
Place chips, users can now add the place chips, and open the location directly from Google Maps in their spreadsheets. They can see a preview of the location, or find other directions. This will be useful for tracking logistics or event planning. Moreover it can save time and be more convenient, as they don’t have to copy each Google Maps link and paste them once again on Sheets. It’s convenient, saves time, and avoids duplication of works.
Source: Google Workspace Update
Finance chips, users can enter the name of the Google Finance entities, namely stocks, mutual funds, or currencies into a Sheet. They can preview information based on entity type. For instance, for stocks, users can find company name, listing index, stock price and market cap. When users click the chips, it will navigate them to the entity’s finance page. This feature is quite useful for the ones who work with financial data and want quick access to financial information.
Source: Google Workspace Update
Expanded date capability, from now on, it is convenient to insert dates in your sheet by typing @today, @yesterday, @tomorrow, and @date. So that, you can quickly add the relevant date to a sheet as shortcuts without switching to another screen to look at your calendar.
Source: Google Workspace Update
New smart chips for Google Docs:
Stopwatch chips, this feature allows you to start, stop and reset timer. It is beneficial when you want to stay focused for short periods of time. For example, record the time for each discussion in the meeting minutes, the stopwatch can allocate the specific time for each agenda. Besides, it helps to limit the amount of time spended on each topic, so that can make your meeting more efficient.
Source: Google Workspace Update
The small change can make a big impact. Based on the additional capability of smart chips used everyday, we believe that users could get things done faster. As a result, they can spare more time to perform other jobs which can increase their work productivity.
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Source: Google Workspace Update