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How to Force Others to Make a Copy of Your Google Doc
With Google Docs, Sheets & Slides, you can share them in a way that forces the recipient to make a copy before opening them. This is a great way to make sure the original document remains unchanged.
3 days ago1 min read


How to Utilise the Pin Board in Google Chat
Google Chat’s Board feature allows you to create a dedicated Pin Board for your key information relating to that chat or space. This is the perfect tool for anyone utilising Google Chat to run their projects.
Oct 221 min read


How to Hide the Guest List in Google Calendar by Default
When we create events for multiple clients, we need to hide the guest list. This prevents attendees from seeing each other's email addresses and names. This setting is useful for private meetings, client workshops or large webinars.
Oct 151 min read


How to Fix Gmail’s New Blue Stars and Importance Markers
And whilst you cannot change the colour of the importance markers in Gmail, there are some workarounds.
Oct 81 min read


How to Summarise Email Threads with Gemini
Gemini acts as a built-in assistant directly inside your inbox, the perfect tool for EAs wanting to catch their manager up. And the great thing is, you don't even need to prompt it; if Gemini detects a long thread, it will create an 'AI overview'.
Oct 11 min read


How to Create Presentations Using Gemini Canvas
You can create presentations straight from the Gemini app and export to Google Slides; now that's a time saver.
Sep 241 min read


Using Smart Chips in Google Docs
Using Smart Chips in Google Docs is simple and enables you to tag colleagues, track deadlines, link to files and creative building blocks, all within your Google Document.
Sep 172 min read


How to Enable the Reading Pane in Gmail
Gmail can mimic Microsoft Outlook's classic split-screen layout with a reading pane.
Sep 101 min read


How to Change the Page Background Colour in Google Docs
Changing the background colour of your Google document is one of the easiest and quickest ways to customise your Doc.
Aug 271 min read


Notes vs Comments in Google Sheets
From the Insert menu or when you right-click, you have the option to leave a note or a comment on a cell.
Aug 202 min read


How to Quickly Remove Text Formatting in Gmail
There is nothing more annoying than when you're composing an email in Gmail, you go to paste some text from a PDF or website, etc and you paste in some unwanted, mismatched formatting.
Aug 131 min read


Hiding the Guest List on a Google Calendar Invite
In Google Calendar, you can hide the guest list on your event invites. This can be useful when hosting events with multiple clients or when you want to avoid leaking external customer email addresses.
Aug 61 min read


How to Use Gemini's 'Help Me Schedule' in Gmail
Remove the back-and-forth in Gmail with the 'Help me schedule' feature.
Jul 301 min read


Searching for Approvals and eSignatures in Google Drive
The quickest way to find documents awaiting your approval, or even those you have sent out for approval, is to use the advanced search in Google Drive.
Jul 231 min read


How to Skip a Slide in Google Slides
We reuse presentations for training all the time, but sometimes certain slides aren't relevant to the session, or a client has asked us to run it as a bite-sized session.
Instead of deleting slides or creating multiple similar slide decks, we use the skip slide option. It lets you hide slides during a presentation, but you can retrieve them later!
Jul 161 min read


Insert the New Audio Button in Google Docs
In Google Docs, you can use Gemini to listen to your Google Doc in a single click, ideal if it is a long document you want to hear back. Now, within Google Docs, you can add an audio button to your document.
Jul 91 min read


Never Miss a Spreadsheet Update With Google Sheets Notifications
You don't have to keep a Google Spreadsheet open and hit the refresh button to keep up to date with its changes; we have Google Sheets Notifications for that.
Jul 21 min read


Preparing Host Controls in Google Meet When Scheduling in Google Calendar
You don't have to wait until the meeting starts to set your host controls, you can set these in Google Calendar when you are scheduling your Google Meet invite.
Jun 251 min read


How to Add the Men's World Cup Fixtures to Your Google Calendar
Never miss a World Cup match by utilising Google Calendar to sync the fixtures with your Calendar ⚽️
Jun 181 min read


How to Link from One Slide to Another in a Google Slides Presentation
When we are training, we need to be able to go between slides to answer questions. The ability to link one slide to another in a different part of the Google Slides presentation is a real win for us.
Jun 111 min read
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