How to Use AI for Google Docs

Help me write

Drafts and rewrites text inside your document

Help me create

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

Gemini side panel

Ask questions, summarize, and pull in information from your files

Other assistants

ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chat for drafting and editing

Gemini in Docs is included on Google Workspace Business Standard and higher, and on some Google AI consumer plans.

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

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

Check that it used the right and latest files.

• Shorten long paragraphs
• Make text more formal or more casual
• Turn bullet notes into paragraphs
• Rewrite for a different audience

• Summarize long documents into key points
• Ask for decisions and action items
• Ask questions about what the document says
• Find what is missing

• Turn lists into tables
• Apply headings for a clean outline
• Match a template’s style
• Create a summary at the top

• Summarize comment threads
• Draft replies to feedback
• Use suggestion mode for edits others can review

Ask Gemini or another assistant to translate documents and adapt tone for other regions. Have a fluent speaker check important documents.

• Facts and numbers are correct
• Private information from emails was not included by mistake
• Tone fits the reader
• It sounds like you

• Follow your organization’s AI rules
• Check sharing settings on documents
• Remove sensitive details before using consumer AI tools

• “Write a one-page brief from these meeting notes.”
• “Turn this document into an FAQ.”
• “Rewrite this proposal to be 30% shorter.”
• “List every open question in this document.”