Announcements of the Week
Better understand how you’re spending your time in Google Calendar
You can now use Time Insights in Calendar, a personalized, analytical experience on the web, to see how your time is spent across meetings and collaborators.
Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Nonprofits customers. Read more.
View embedded Office files in your documents
You can now view embedded Microsoft Office files in your documents when you’re working with Office files in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This feature allows you to view the files in preview mode and copy an embedded file directly to Drive, or download it. Read more.
Find and share GIFs in Google Chat
We’re introducing a new integration with Tenor, which will allow users to quickly search for and send GIFs in Google Chat on web.
Additionally, we’re introducing a new setting for Admins to control the use of this GIF integration within their organization. Read more.
Easily make all files types available offline in Google Drive
Google Drive stores your most important files, whether they are Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, images or the hundreds of other file types we support today. Today, we are announcing more ways to make sure you can make them all accessible to you even when your internet connection is unavailable. Read more.
New beta makes it easier for admins to move folders to shared drives
We’re launching a new beta that makes it easier for admins and delegated admins to move folders from My Drive to shared drives.
Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Business customers. Read more.
Use the “Inspect Groups” function to view a users direct and indirect group membership
You can now quickly surface information regarding specific users and the groups they are part of directly in the Admin console. You can view direct and indirect members of a group, check membership and list all groups for a member.
Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers. Read more.
