Google Drive 6 New Features: You Should Know About

Google Drive 6 New Features

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Google's added some amazing new features to its online productivity tools such as Sheets, Docs and Slides. These cool new features are not only for students, since they're available to use for anyone with a Google account.

Voice Typing

Google's been perfect in voice recognition for performing search queries and now putting those abilities in Google Docs. Now user can dictate instead of manually typing, just speak it what you wanna write, with support of 40 different languages.

To use this function, open a document from Google Drive in Chrome web browser. Then click on Tools and choose Voice typing. Then adjust microphone setting, start speaking and Google will write what you say, including punctuation marks.

Research from Google Docs

In the Android app of Google Drive, there is a new Research feature for Docs that allow you search from Google without closing your documents. You can use this amazing feature to read and find information, add images links from Google Images, copy and paste text into your document.

Templates

Google tools are all getting improved, well-designed templates that allow you quickly design a resume, slideshows, budgets and much more. Go to the individual tool for Sheets, Docs and Slides you'll see many templates at the top. Click on More link to see extra features, organized by category, such as school or work.

New Changes Button

In shared Google documents, you can easily see activities performed by contributors and collaborators. A "See new changes" link in the toolbar that let you gets a run-down of the changes and adjustments made by your collaborators.

Explore in Sheets

A wonderful feature is added to spreadsheet tool, Sheets, will automatically create many types of charts for you. This allows you take quick look to your data.
Those charts will update automatically according your data in sheet. You can highlight special fields to make charts on for particular data.

New Forms


Google Forms are a perfect way to get data on almost everything from a group of peoples, offering you full flexibility with the each question you ask. With the new Forms feature, you can customize colors, change background colors and insert GIFs and images to your survey.

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