Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap, 17th November 2023

3 New updates

Enhancing Google Drive usability on large screen Android devices 

Building upon improvements to the Google Workspace experience on large screen Android devices, we’re excited to announce additional enhancements that bring our tablet experience more inline with our web experience. Specifically, you’ll notice: 

  • Above the main doclist, users will now see a tappable folder hierarchy for their current view. This allows a user to keep track of where they are in Drive and easily navigate out of nested folders. 
  • Per-file data columns to show when a file was last modified and how much storage is used by each file. 
  • A colour palette that matches the Google Material Design 3 guidelines. 

Easily convert hyperlinked text to smart chips using the tab key in Google Sheets 

Building upon the tab to convert feature in Google Sheets, when your hyperlinked text matches the text of a smart chip in Sheets, you will now be prompted to convert an inserted file, people, calendar event, Youtube or place link into a smart chip.

For example, if the hyperlinked text is a file name, Sheets will automatically recommend converting it to a file chip.

More languages available for Google Meet captions 

You can now use captions in Google Meet in Finnish & Hebrew.

You can use captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting — captions are only visible to you. Note that because this is a newly supported language, it will be denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimise performance.

See Google Help Center for a complete list of supported languages for captions in Meet.

Google have also removed the “beta” tag from the following languages, as they have been validated and are out of beta: 

  • English (UK) 
  • French (Canada) 
  • Thai 
  • Vietnamese 
  • Polish 
  • Romanian 
  • Turkish 

More information

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