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Online, collaborative documents
AI-powered documents to help you and your team create and collaborate on content.
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Get more done with Gemini in Docs
Using a few simple prompts, create professional, stylized, and structured documents with images, tables, and more. Get help refining your content, see the latest summary of your work, and ask questions to improve and finalize your document. Try Gemini for Google Workspace today.
Effortlessly create documents
Never start a document from scratch - get started with templates and building blocks to get a professional look from the start.
Get a jumpstart on your document with smart canvas
Instantly build formatted emails, calendar invites, review trackers, meeting notes, and more in Docs when you type ‘@.’
Easily populate your document with rich details
Use smart chips to add names, files, calendar events, dropdown menus, and more when you type ‘@.’
Remove page breaks and write without limits
Choose pageless mode to create content - continuously write and scroll without interruption.
Stay organized with document tabs
Create a tab for each part of a project, plan, or report and keep everything in one place - never lose track of your documents again.
Collaborate on and refine your document, from anywhere
Stay in sync with edits and comments from internal and external teams on your phone, tablet, or web browser.
Meet directly in your documents
Premium feature
This feature is available on some Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.
Collaborate in context by meeting in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Control access to your documents
Easy-to-manage permissions gives you granular control over who can edit, comment, download, share, or view your documents.
Collaborate with your partners and make decisions, all in one place
Use comments and emojis to give feedback to your teams and assign tasks to keep projects moving forward, without ever leaving your document.
Review changes with flexibility
You and your stakeholders can reference previous versions of a document at any time and reinstate them.
Accelerate everyday tasks
Get more done without having to leave Docs.
Capture meeting notes with ease and speed
Draft polished, structured meeting notes with event details straight from a Google Calendar event using the meeting notes building block in Docs.
Streamline your workflows with electronic signatures
Draft agreements, request signatures, and manage contract templates all in one place with eSignature in Docs.
Save time by easily adding content you reuse often
Create a custom building block for pieces of text like a bio, signature, address, and more - simply type ‘@’ to insert instead of endlessly copying and pasting the same content.
Capture meeting notes with ease and speed
Draft polished, structured meeting notes with event details straight from a Google Calendar event using the meeting notes building block in Docs.
Streamline your workflows with electronic signatures
Draft agreements, request signatures, and manage contract templates all in one place with eSignature in Docs.
Save time by easily adding content you reuse often
Create a custom building block for pieces of text like a bio, signature, address, and more - simply type ‘@’ to insert instead of endlessly copying and pasting the same content.
Stay safe
Your data is encrypted by default, and an array of safety measures – like advanced client-side encryption, anti-abuse measures, and privacy controls – keep your data private.
Use Docs to improve editing of popular file types
Import popular file types like Microsoft Word documents and PDF files and work with them in Docs. Importing files into Docs unlocks powerful collaborative and assistive features, including comments, action items, and built-in intelligence.
Learn why organizations use Docs
Since written communication is an important foundation, we’re also heavy users of Google Docs. For example, we create highly organized Docs for meetings, allowing everyone to collaborate and add notes instantly.
Dave Stott, Chief Information Officer, OXA
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Our client-facing teams use the Help me write feature in Docs to generate ideas and develop outlines. The Shorten feature within Docs, for example, helps with our everyday client-facing messaging. Our clients are busy and we aim for their interactions with us to be the easiest part of their day, which starts with clear and concise communication.
Catelin Carey, Senior Vice President, WebFX
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...since our documents weren’t in the cloud, people were overwriting each other's work, edits were being lost, and we spent needless time searching for missing information. To fix these document and data management issues, we transitioned to Google Workspace. Google Drive and Google Docs made it easy for us to share and edit files...
Damon Hartman, Head of Information Technology, Atlantic Housing Foundation
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Do more with Google Docs
Work, wherever you are
View, present or collaborate in Docs on your mobile phone or tablet, available in the App Store and Play Store, or connect from your computer.
Stay productive, even offline
Access, create, and edit documents without any internet connection, helping you stay productive anywhere.
Seamlessly connect to your other Google apps
Reply to comments directly from Gmail and embed charts from Sheets. Search the web and Drive for content, all in Docs.
Work, wherever you are
View, present or collaborate in Docs on your mobile phone or tablet, available in the App Store and Play Store, or connect from your computer.
Stay productive, even offline
Access, create, and edit documents without any internet connection, helping you stay productive anywhere.
Seamlessly connect to your other Google apps
Reply to comments directly from Gmail and embed charts from Sheets. Search the web and Drive for content, all in Docs.
Curious about Google Docs?
Take a look at our FAQs to learn more.
- Anyone with a Google Account can create in Docs.
However, some features such as joining a Meet call from your documents are only available on Google Workspace plans. See plans and pricing for organizations or Google Workspace Individual. - You can convert Microsoft Word documents into Google Docs format, or you can directly edit Word documents, without having to make a copy. The original file will remain intact.
- Co-editing means that multiple people can work on the same document at the same time, without having to send versions back and forth. Sharing settings allows you to control who can view and edit a spreadsheet, and revision history enables you to revert to earlier versions. Also available in Google Sheets and Slides.
