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Apr 24, 2026

We’re excited to introduce new Gemini in Sheets capabilities that enable you to build and edit entire spreadsheets using simple natural language.

Whether you need a quick view of your small business's financial health or a complex project tracker, Gemini in Sheets orchestrates the multi-step construction from start to finish. Workspace Intelligence synthesizes data across your files, emails, chats, and the web to help you visualize your data with stylized tables, formulas, pivot tables, and charts.

Gemini in Sheets can handle complex, multi-step tasks that previously required expert-level knowledge of Sheets. For example, you can ask Gemini to do end-to-end creation to "build a P&L dashboard leveraging my historic service incidents and rate cards," or do side-by-side editing to “add scorecards and bar charts above my sales and inventory data”. Gemini will synthesize relevant information, construct a plan for your approval, and then build out the entire formatted spreadsheet.

Key capabilities include:

  • End-to-end creation: Build entire spreadsheets from a single prompt, including data retrieval and formatting. 
  • Side-by-side editing: Refine and update existing models, budgets, or analysis directly in the side panel.
  • **Workspace Intelligence: **Automatically pull context and data from other Workspace apps to ensure your spreadsheet is accurate and relevant.
  • Advanced task fulfillment: Leverages Sheets’ most powerful tools, like pivot tables and complex formulas, without requiring manual configuration.
  • Advanced optimization: Handle complex optimization problems that typically require complex manual formulas or third-party tools. Powered by research from Google DeepMind and Google Research OR-Tools. 
  • State-of-the-art performance: Gemini in Sheets achieved a 70.48% success rate in autonomously manipulating complex, real-world spreadsheets on the full SpreadsheetBench dataset, nearing human expert ability.

Getting started

Note: Through July 15, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for the improved Gemini in Sheets experience, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature, informing them of the promotional access period. Per-user usage limits will apply after July 15; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • **Business: **Business Standard and Plus
  • **Enterprise: **Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • **AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access; AI Ultra Access; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Gemini in Sheets.

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We’re reimagining the AI writing experience in Google Docs to help you move from a blank page to a finished document faster than ever. Google Docs is evolving from a traditional word processor into a collaborator that understands your organization’s context.

Reimagined Gemini experience in Docs

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Google Docs now offers a centralized place to generate, write, and refine your documents with Gemini. Powered by Workspace Intelligence, Gemini leverages data across Drive, Gmail, Chat, and the web to provide personalized, context-aware assistance.

  • The upgraded Help me create experience enables you to generate relevant, fully formatted first drafts that synthesize information from your files, emails, chat, and the web.
  • With Help me write, simply prompt Gemini from the new bottom bar or side panel to make edits across your doc, or select text to focus Gemini’s attention. Gemini’s suggested edits are only visible to you until you approve them.
  • Match writing style helps maintain a consistent tone and style across your entire doc, no matter how many people are working on it.

To generate new docs from scratch, open a new doc, enter your prompt, and click submit. To edit existing docs, simply hover over the spark near the bottom of your doc and type a prompt in the bottom bar.

Generate on-brand documents using your existing docs and templates

Looking to quickly populate a template or replicate the refined style of your favorite docs? With Match doc format, Gemini can now mirror a source document to generate content that adheres to the original's formatting (e.g., fonts and colors) and structural elements (e.g., headings and table columns).

Note that we’re launching these features in English first, with Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean support to follow soon after.

Getting started

Note: Through June 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for Match writing style and Match document format tools within the upgraded Gemini in Docs, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • **Business: **Business Standard and Plus
  • **Enterprise: **Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • **Education: **Education Plus
  • **Consumer: **Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • *AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access; AI Ultra Access; Google AI Pro for Education
  • **Other Add-ons: **Teaching and Learning

*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Pro for Education add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Match writing style and Match document format tools.

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Apr 22, 2026

For enterprises, data migrations and change management for a new productivity and collaboration platform can feel daunting and create business disruption across the organization. Not anymore. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of our new Google Workspace data migration tool for enterprises: Data import.

With data import, enterprise organizations will be able to achieve easier, faster, and higher-fidelity data migrations than before for emails, calendars, and contacts – all at no additional tool cost. Moreover, the substantial time and cost-savings to IT teams will free up their bandwidth and budget to prioritize other business critical tasks.

Data import provides:

  • Ease of use: A turnkey, scalable cloud-native solution that can be accessed and deployed directly from the admin console.
  • Quicker speeds and accuracy: Finish importing data sooner with faster migration speeds from parallelization and improved algorithms.
  • **No additional tool cost to use: **No additional infrastructure costs for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) during migration or licensing costs for third-party data migration tools.

Additionally, customers will have access to a new migration planning utility that will help improve their change management and data migration forecasting. The migration planning utility is available to provide migration timeline estimates and organize user data into speed-optimized batches. This offers customers zero-friction discovery and data-driven planning when undertaking large scale enterprise migrations from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace.

Additional details

Data import and the migration planning utility are now available to accelerate enterprise-scale data migrations for Microsoft Exchange Online, with additional support for OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Teams coming soon.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • **Business: **Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • **Education: **Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • **Other Editions: **Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofit

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Starting today, you can brand your custom avatars in Google Vids by uploading a logo of your choice and using the power of Nano Banana 2 to refine how it appears on screen. You now have the creative control to ensure your AI-generated presenters align with your organization's visual identity.

  • **Brand consistency: **Upload logo assets to ensure your avatars represent your brand accurately across all videos.
  • **Nano Banana 2 refinement: **Use Google’s latest models to adjust sizing and placement of logos to fit the style of your video.
  • Simple collaboration: Save your branded custom avatar in each Vid so collaborators can generate with the same speaker, ensuring consistency.

Sample of Vids branding as enamel pin

Sample of Google branding on t-shirt

UX of avatar branding

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • **Business: *Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • **Enterprise: *Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • **Education: *Education Plus
  • **Consumer: **Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits*
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access; AI Ultra Access; Google AI Pro for Education
  • **Other Add-ons: *Teaching and Learning

*For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

**Users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access licenses will have higher limits on usage of avatars in Google Vids.

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We’re committed to continuously improving Sheets to ensure it is a powerful, responsive, and scalable spreadsheet tool for your needs. To that end, we’re announcing significant performance improvements across the entire Sheets experience, especially for larger data sets, making it faster than ever to import, analyze, and manage your data.

Some of the key Sheets journeys we’ve optimized to help you work with larger datasets more efficiently include:

  • **Get started faster: **You can now open and start working in large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 30% faster. 
  • **Rapid data analysis: **You can now filter large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.
  • Easier formatting: You can now apply conditional formatting to large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.

These enhancements are part of our broader effort to ensure a smooth experience even as your spreadsheets grow in complexity.

Beta now available: Sheets capacity doubled to 20 million cells

Alongside faster analysis, we’re opening a new beta program to give users early access to doubled cell limits in Google Sheets—from 10 million cells to 20 million cells. This limit applies to new, existing, and imported files. Fill out the form to register your organization for the beta program and double Sheets limits.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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