You can use smart chips to insert files, people or calendar events in Google Sheets.
Last year, Google just launched Smart Canvas, a collection of collaborative tools bringing the contents and team connections for better experience to new trend working style. It enhances the effectiveness of teams’ communication and collaboration experience leading to more creativity and productivity.
Until now, many functions and features have been created to link between people and applications along with Smart Canvas. We believe that Google Workspace users know and get familiar with smart chips; one of the most useful collaborative tools in the form of the interactive hyperlinks chips available on Google Docs maximizing teams’ collaboration. It starts as the simple way to type “@” to see a list of recommended people, files, or meeting events. It can eliminate the time to search files manually.
With this function, your team members can skim through related people, events and preview linked documents and understand the main contents without changing to new tabs or screens. Google has continually added new features on smart chips. Now, it expands to Google Sheets!
Source: Google Workspace Update
You can insert a smart chip in a Google Sheet by typing “@” in cell. This will appear as a drop-down, then you can choose for people, files or calendar events depending on your requirement. For inserting files chip, it can quickly preview and interact with files in Sheets. You can also paste a Google Drive file link directly in the cell, then right-click, and select “Convert to file chip.”
Regarding the calendar events chip, it allows you to search for events from Calendar or you can copy Calendar links and place them into Sheets. Then you can see the event name, date and time while moving the cursor on the cell. So that you can track tasks progress easily.
Now, you can realize that smart chips in Google Sheets are full of benefits to keep track of documents, projects, and team members. It can quickly access additional information between Google Workspace applications, saving time for manual searching. Besides, it is a great way to assign tasks for team while everything looks well organized. That makes it easier for people to stay connected and encourages collaboration among teams.
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Source: Google Workspace Update