How to Use AI for Google Docs

Help me write

Drafts and rewrites text right inside your document

Help me create

Added in March 2026: drafts whole documents using context from your Gmail, Drive, and files

Gemini side panel

Answers questions, summarizes, and pulls in information from your files

Other assistants

ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chat, for drafting and editing

Gemini in Docs comes with Google Workspace Business Standard and higher, and with some Google AI consumer plans.

Let Gemini write the first draft. You write the last one.

Create a project update for the leadership team from the latest emails about Project Atlas and the project plan in Drive. Cover progress, risks, and next steps.

Confirm it pulled the right files and the latest versions.

• Trim long paragraphs
• Shift text to a more formal or more casual tone
• Expand bullet notes into paragraphs
• Rework text for a different audience

• Condense long documents into key points
• Pull out decisions and action items
• Ask questions about what the document says
• Spot what is missing

• Convert lists into tables
• Add headings for a clean outline
• Match the style of a template
• Add a summary at the top

• Summarize long comment threads
• Draft responses to feedback
• Make edits in suggestion mode so others can review them

Have Gemini or another assistant translate documents and adjust the tone for other regions. Get a fluent speaker to check anything important.

• Facts and numbers are accurate
• No private details from emails slipped in by mistake
• The tone suits the reader
• The voice sounds like yours

• Follow your organization’s AI policies
• Review the sharing settings on each document
• Strip sensitive details before you use consumer AI tools

• “Turn these meeting notes into a one-page brief.”
• “Convert this document into an FAQ.”
• “Make this proposal 30% shorter.”
• “List every unanswered question in this document.”