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Fill with Gemini now provides cell-level citations for web sources and supports larger requests

We are making it easier to verify your AI-generated data and scale your workflows in Google Sheets. When you use the AI function to generate cell values, Gemini will now provide the exact web sources referenced directly within each individual cell. | Learn more.

Apply compact form layout for pivot tables in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports compact form layout for pivot tables, which keeps multi-level pivot tables readable while reducing excessive horizontal scrolling. | Learn more.

Immersive explorations now available in the Gemini app

We’re introducing a library of immersive explorations in the Gemini app, giving users an interactive, visual way to explore topics layer-by-layer, from microscopic systems to deep space. Users can access this library in the Gemini student hub by clicking on “Try immersive explorations” and will soon be able to access these immersive explorations directly in a chat conversation with Gemini. | Learn more.

Create, preview, and edit files directly in the Gemini app

We’re introducing new ways to create and refine files and code in the Gemini app. You can now generate, preview, and edit files right within your Gemini app chat—expand to full screen to type edits directly, highlight text to ask questions, or have Gemini refine them. | Learn more.

Edit entire presentations with Gemini in Google Slides

You can now use Gemini in Google Slides to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once. With a single prompt in the Slides side panel, you can update content throughout a deck, refresh visual styles in bulk, or match the style of another presentation. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

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You can now use Gemini in Google Slides to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once. With a single prompt in the Slides side panel, you can update content throughout a deck, refresh visual styles in bulk, or match the style of another presentation. Gemini determines which slides need to change and applies edits directly to your native, editable slides, so you stay in full control to make any further adjustments.

Try the following to update your presentations in less time:

  • Refresh visual styles: Update fonts, backgrounds, color schemes, and more across the entire deck. For example: "Update this whole deck to match the style of this [reference file]"
  • Update content throughout the deck: Simplify, expand, or change the focus of your presentation, grounded in your files from Google Drive. For example: "Update this presentation to include more details based on [reference file]."
  • Combine or expand slides: Condense multiple slides into one, or add new slides to an existing deck. For example: "Summarize slides 5–7 into a single slide."
  • Make styling consistent: Align title styles or remove page numbers across all slides. For example: "Make the titles on all slides the same font size and color."

Once Gemini finishes, a summary of the changes appears in the side panel. Edits are applied as if you made them, so you can use undo or version history to review or revert them.

Note: At launch, this feature will be supported in English only.


Getting started

Note: Through at least December 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for creating multi-slide presentations using Gemini in Google Slides, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature to inform them of the limited higher promotional access period. 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
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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We’re introducing new ways to create and refine files and code in the Gemini app. You can now generate, preview, and edit files right within your Gemini app chat—expand to full screen to type edits directly, highlight text to ask questions, or have Gemini refine them. PDF preview and editing is supported on both the web and mobile, while all other formats (documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code) are supported on the web only. Here are just some of the new things you can do:

  • Generate and refine slide decks: Create presentation outlines or slide content, preview the layout in chat, and edit directly or ask Gemini to adjust the tone and structure before opening in Google Slides, or downloading as a PPTX or PDF.
  • Build and export Google Sheets: Generate structured trackers, tables, and data models from a prompt, preview them in Gemini, and open them directly in Google Sheets.
  • Edit documents and PDFs: Quickly draft PDFs, Google Docs, LaTeX, Markdown, or TXT files, and make manual or prompted edits inline on web or in a full-screen view—plus you can upload all of them to Drive.

These capabilities are now available to all users in all languages where the Gemini app is available.


Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: Users of all ages who have access to the Gemini app can generate files. To get started, ask Gemini to generate your desired file type. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We’re introducing a library of immersive explorations in the Gemini app, giving users an interactive, visual way to explore topics layer-by-layer, from microscopic systems to deep space. Users can access this library in the Gemini student hub by clicking on “Try immersive explorations” and will soon be able to access these immersive explorations directly in a chat conversation with Gemini.

Whether it’s tracing trade routes on the Silk Road, peering inside a jet engine, or studying the physics of lightning, each scene unfolds into interactive nodes with guided explanations. Users can tap a layer to dig deeper, journeying from sweeping planetary scales straight down to molecules and atoms. Immersive explorations will soon include audio narration to walk users through each layer.

This feature is available on web and mobile to all users in the following languages: English, Indonesian, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and simplified Chinese. Users in all other languages currently receive an English-only experience, with more languages coming soon.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

In the Gemini student hub:

  • Available to Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

In the Gemini app at at gemini.google.com/immersive-explorations:

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

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Google Sheets now supports compact form layout for pivot tables, which keeps multi-level pivot tables readable while reducing excessive horizontal scrolling. You can choose a layout directly from the pivot table editor:

  • Outline form: each row field is displayed in its own column
  • Compact form: all row fields are nested in a single column, with indentation and inline expand/collapse buttons showing the hierarchy

Compact form support also comes with enhanced Microsoft Excel import compatibility. Previously, importing Excel files containing compact form pivot tables into Sheets would convert them to outline form, changing the structure of the pivot table. Now, the source layout is preserved on import and maintained if the file is exported back to Excel.



Switching a pivot table to compact form layout in Google Sheets

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

Resources

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