In Google Slides, you'll be building a presentation, you’ve dropped in your company logo, and then you spend ten minutes trying to guess which shade of pink matches the brand. I then start searching my Google Keep notes for # hex colour code.

Google Docs has a built-in Table of Contents feature that doesn't just list your headings; it automatically links to them. This is really useful for long Google Docs.

We all work different hours and across various time zones. The Schedule Send feature in Google Chat enables you to work hours that suit you, or let you send that message when inspiration strikes and you don't want to forget - but doesn't impact others' downtime.

While "Suggested Times" has existed for years (and has been one of our favourite features), in 2026, Gemini has upped this feature's game!

Turning an email into a task is a great way to clear your inbox and help you achieve Inbox Zero - if that's your style of working. If you have a busy inbox, tasks can sometimes get forgotten as other emails fly in; this can help address that issue.

You can now send emoji reactions to emails in Gmail 🥳. Sometimes an email doesn't need a full reply, and an emoji reaction will do the job of acknowledging the email.

Your secret to reaching 'Inbox Zero' in Gmail might be archiving. Many users avoid the Archive button because they are terrified their emails will disappear into a black hole, never to be seen again, but this is not the case.

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.

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.

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.

Gems are perfect for repetitive tasks. Google calls it ‘a tool that lets you create custom experts for any task within Gemini.’