top of page

Subscribe to receive Free Google Workspace tips in your inbox!
Search


How to Enable the Reading Pane in Gmail
Gmail can mimic Microsoft Outlook's classic split-screen layout with a reading pane.
6 days ago1 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


How to Translate an Entire Column in Google Sheets in Seconds
Did you know Google Sheets has a translation tool built in? You can translate entire columns of text with a simple formula =GOOGLETRANSLATE.
Jun 41 min read


Force Others to Make a Copy of Your Google Doc
When you share a document template with colleagues, you usually don't want them to edit your original file, so you can force them to make a copy of the document.
May 281 min read


How to Use the Gemini =AI() Function in Google Sheets
Learn how to use the new =AI() function in Google Sheets to clean messy data, extract text, and automate your spreadsheets using prompts.
May 212 min read


A Guide to Find & Replace in Google Sheets
The Find and Replace tool in Google Sheets is used to locate specific text, numbers, or formulas within a spreadsheet and replace them with your new data.
May 142 min read


3 Advanced Security Google Drive Settings
The great thing about sharing over attaching to an email is that you have increased control of your document. However, you might still be opening yourself up to a data leak if you don't understand the restrictive share options within Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.
May 72 min read


Use Gemini to turn PDFs into Podcast-style Audio Summaries
In just a few quick steps, you can take a long, boring PDF and turn it into a podcast. We love this feature in Google Drive, it's a new way to analyse PDF content.
Apr 301 min read


Top 4 Google Calendar Navigation Shortcuts
Digging through Calendar menus and clicking three different buttons just to see if you’re free next Thursday can be very time-consuming. Here are the Google Calendar shortcuts that will change the way you manage your time.
Apr 141 min read
bottom of page