When you host a meeting in Google Meet, you can set up a virtual waiting room where participants wait until you let them into the meeting.

As Gemini evolves, it can be difficult to know what its capabilities are. The ‘Ask Gemini’ menu in Google Sheets will show examples of Gemini’s capabilities and help us get started with the right prompt.

You can quickly create new Docs, Sheets and even Forms in the Chrome Address Bar.

Canvas in Gemini is all about Collaboration. With Canvas, Gemini will help you work on your project from start to finish, whether that be a document, game or app.

This is the perfect feature if you work with colleagues across various time zones. Make scheduling meetings easier with the World Clock feature. Using this feature, you can choose times from different time zones to display on the left of your Google Calendar.

Ready for a mailbox tidy-up? Why not start with those subscriptions you've been meaning to cancel in Gmail?

We are loving the new 'Create an AI column' Gemini button in the Google Sheets cell. It saves a lot of time.

Google Meet has some great backgrounds you can use, from a home office space to a simple blur. Now, you can use Gemini AI to create a background for yourself, unlocking endless possibilities.

You want to share a Google Doc with your team, but only for a limited period? Use the expiry share option. We use this a lot for training recordings.

You can check your Spelling and Grammar in Google Docs, but did you know you can also get suggestions on Conciseness, Active voice, Wording and Sentence Split.

Google Keep will transcribe your voice notes into text, a perfect way to capture notes and tasks whilst on the go.

This week's tip is inspired by Lauren telling me she is loving the two week view in Google Calendar, especially to drag and drop events as it simplifies this. We have been using this a lot to view the Euros 2025 games - well done, Lionesses!

Save time when creating your speaker notes in Google Slides with the 'Dictate speaker notes' option.

Collaboration is great, but sometimes you need to lock a file down temporarily. The lock feature in Google Drive does exactly this; it locks the document so that edits and comments cannot be added.

You can add a watermark to your Google Doc, which can be an image or text.

Oops! You didn't mean to hit send on that email yet. No worries, in Gmail, you have up to 30 seconds to undo the sending of that email.

To save time when creating slide decks, you can use Gemini in Google Slides to develop slides for you.

You can add a list of times in other countries to the Calendar. This is great if you are working with colleagues or clients in different time zones.

Google Sheets has two types of references, Absolute References and Relative References.

You can combine the IMPORTRANGE function with other functions to analyse data in other Google Sheets files. Here are a couple of examples.