Gemini in Google Workspace

The Gemini app is one surface. The other is a side panel that opens inside the Google apps you already work in, and it starts with the file in front of you as context. Nothing gets exported, pasted, or re-uploaded.

Where the Panel Lives

The side panel appears in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Meet, and Chat. Open it with the Gemini icon in the top-right corner of the app.

What It Does in Each App

• Gmail: summarize a long thread, draft a reply, or find the message that answers a question;
• Docs: produce a first draft that pulls from your Drive files and mail, rewrite a selection, or match the style of an existing document;
• Sheets: build a formula from a description, create pivot tables and charts, and clean or reformat a range;
• Slides: generate slides that follow the theme already applied to the deck;
• Drive: summarize a file without opening it.

The panel can pull from your other files while it works, and it lists what it used underneath the answer. Expand that list before trusting a summary, since the wrong source produces a confident and useless result.