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What’s changing
Last year, we announced that the expansion of smart canvas would include third-party smart chips, a new feature that lets you add, view, and engage with critical information from third party apps directly in Google Docs. Today, we’re excited to share that third-party smart chips in Docs are now generally available for all users. 

Since introducing third-party smart chips, developers have been able to build app integrations. Several partners, including Atlassian, Figma, Miro, and Whimsical, have already created smart chips so users can start embedding content from those apps directly into Docs. 

To access third-party smart chips, an admin or user must first install a partner’s add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace. After that, simply paste a link from the third-party source into your document and select “tab”. You will then see a smart chip populate in your document that previews critical information from the app, right in the flow of your work. 
Pull rich data from apps directly into Google Docs with third-party smart chips

Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 

Why you’d use it 
Third-party smart chips are the latest smart canvas innovation that bring people and data into a single workflow, keeping teams focused and collaborating in the documents where they’re already working.  

Getting started 
Rollout pace 
  • This feature is now available. 
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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What’s changing 
In addition to the existing cards in the Admin console landing page such as “Users” or “Billing”, we’ve added a card for Chrome Browser Cloud Management. Here you can see quick stats, such as the number of enrolled browsers, and directly perform actions such as enrolling new browsers or managing Chrome extensions. 




Prior to this update, you would have needed to navigate directly to Menu > Devices > Chrome > Managed browsers. Now, this information can be accessed faster directly from the Admin console home page. 


Additional details 
Chrome Browser Cloud Management allows you to configure and manage browser policies, settings, apps and extensions across your browsers, and do it all from the Admin console—even if your workforce uses multiple operating systems and devices. And better visibility into the browser and browser versioning means you can better enable and protect your end users. 


Getting started 
Rollout pace 
  • This feature is now available.  

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers 

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Earlier this year, we rolled out improvements to the formatting and customization options for tables of contents and reorganized the options included in the table properties sidebar in Google Docs. 

Today, we’re introducing improved table positioning options for documents set in pages format. These features add more flexibility and control over the layout of text with tables in Docs, allowing you to: 
  • Drag tables in a document and place them directly where you want 
  • Wrap content around a table on a page. The wrap direction (left, right, both sides) and margin from the surrounding text can be specified 
  • Set a fixed position for a table on a page 
  • Provide quick layouts to instantly move a table to a preset position on a page 
Additionally, we’ve improved the import/export of Microsoft Word documents with tables so your documents remain consistent.
Improving table placements in Google Docs
Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding and editing tables. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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What’s changing 
To make Google Meet more inclusive, we’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following languages: 
  • French Canadian (web only, support for mobile coming soon) 
  • Indonesian 
  • Polish 
  • Romanian 
  • Thai 
  • Turkish 
  • Vietnamese 

We’ve also added additional languages for translated captions. You can now translate meetings spoken in English into: Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, and Vietnamese 


Note: the newly supported languages will be denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimize performance. 


Additional details 
We’ve also removed the “beta” tag from the following closed caption languages, as they have been validated and are out of beta: 
  • Dutch 
  • Italian
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Russian 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There are no admin controls for these features. 
  • End users: These features are available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about captions and translated captions in Google Meet.
  • Meeting participants: 
    • You can use live translated captions if the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace edition. 
    • Closed captions are available for all users. 

Rollout pace 
  • Available now. 

Availability 
Translated captions 
  • Available for meetings organized by Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Closed captions 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers Available to users with personal Google accounts 

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What’s changing 
You can now simply add or remove client-side encryption to existing spreadsheets in Google Sheets or presentations in Google Slides. This update gives you the flexibility to control encryption as your documents and projects evolve and progress. This feature is already available for Google Docs. 


In Google Sheets or Slides, navigate to File > Make a copy > Add/Remove additional encryption.




Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers 

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What’s changing 
Using Directory Sync, admins can automatically replace the domain name for synced users and groups in their Google cloud directory. This means synced Google users and groups can have a different domain name than the domain used in the external directory following a sync. 


Verified domain names within your Google Workspace account can be used to replace user and group domain names. Admins can specify whether the domain change will occur for: 
  • Newly synced users and groups 
  • New and previously synced users and groups 


Directory Sync is available as an open beta, meaning no sign-up is required. Use our Help Center to learn more about using Directory Sync and FAQs.



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What’s changing
Using a whiteboard during a brainstorming session is a great way to problem solve as a group. However in today’s hybrid work environment, it can be difficult for those attending a meeting in-person to collaborate with their remote colleagues on a whiteboard. 

To improve upon this experience, provide better meeting inclusion, and foster greater collaboration, we’re excited to announce support for whiteboard cameras on Google Meet Hardware, with Logitech Scribe as the first supported camera. This will enable the content written on a physical whiteboard in a room to be shared as a presentation in a meeting using the Logitech Scribe. As a result, remote meeting participants will be able to see what is being drawn on a meeting room whiteboard. 

An updated touch controller UI will allow users to easily share the in-room whiteboard upon selecting the “Present to the meeting” button, followed by the new “Whiteboard camera” option. 
new support for whiteboard cameras on Google Meet Hardware

Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why you’d use it 
This feature makes it easier to share what's on a whiteboard with everyone in the meeting, regardless of location, so they can collaborate more effectively. 


Additional details 
The Logitech Scribe is the first whiteboard camera to be certified for use with Google Meet hardware in the new category of content cameras. Additional partnerships will be explored to expand our content camera support. We will make announcements as those become available. 
The Logitech Scribe


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. However, admins will have the option of setting a default whiteboard camera in the Admin console if they want to receive alerts when it goes offline. To set a default peripheral camera:
    • Go to Menu > Devices > Google Meet hardware > Devices
    • Some features may require the manage Devices privilege for Google Meet hardware
    • In the Connected peripherals section, select the peripheral you want to set as the default > click “Set As Default”
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. In order to use the whiteboard feature, a Logitech Scribe must be plugged into a Google Meet hardware device. 
Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware kits with touch controller support and Google Meet hardware devices that have not yet reached their auto-update expiration date.
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Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace customers.


Optimizing the Google Drive Android app for foldable devices 
When using the Drive app on a foldable device, you’ll notice that controls within the item preview viewer will intelligently respond to what position the foldable device is in (opened, closed, or only partially opened) and adjust accordingly. 


View documents in paginated mode on Android devices 
Documents on tablet and foldables will now be in paginated mode upon first open unless the document is set to pageless. This will set up your Google Doc with pages and page breaks in the app, enabling a more cohesive visual design between web, tablet and foldables.
View documents in paginated mode on Android devices


Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.


Simplify and strengthen sign-in by enabling passkeys for your users, available now in open beta 
Google Workspace is enabling the use of passkeys as a simpler and safer alternative to passwords to sign-in to Google Accounts. Additionally, Workspace admins can now allow users to use passkeys to skip passwords at sign-in for Workspace apps. | Learn more about the passkey open beta.

Write messages faster and easier with smart compose in Google Chat 
Smart compose in Google Chat helps you communicate with colleagues quicker to move conversations or projects forward more efficiently. | Learn more about smart compose in Google Chat. 

Visit a class using new option in Google Classroom 
We introduced the ability to visit a class, which allows permissioned users to temporarily access classes to support educators, post announcements, view student profiles, and more, without being assigned as a permanent co-teacher. | Available only to users with a Google Workspace for Education Plus license assigned to them. | Learn more about the visit a class feature. 

Improved experience for admitting or denying join requests in Google Meet 
For a better experience, we’re moving join requests to the people panel. Here, users can take their time reviewing join requests without disrupting the overall meeting experience, and without blocking functionality of other meeting features. | Learn more about join requests in Google Meet. 

Updated user interface for the Email Log Search tool 
We’ve updated the Email Log Search interface to help admins find relevant information faster whether their query is simple or dynamic. | Learn more about the Email Log Search tool.

Enhanced experience for picture-in-picture for Google Meet in Chrome 
We’re updating the Google Meet picture-in-picture experience to be more engaging and feature-rich. Directly from the picture-in-picture window, you can now: raise your hand, use in meeting chat, turn captions on and off, more effectively resize the picture-in-picture view, and access flexible layouts. | Learn more about picture-in-picture for Google Meet in Chrome.

Assistant and Calendar reminders are automatically migrating to Tasks 
In September 2022, we announced that we would be migrating Reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant to Google Tasks in order to create a single experience for managing to-dos across Google. Over the last several weeks, Google Workspace users had the opportunity to voluntarily migrate their reminders to Tasks. For Google Workspace users: If you have not already migrated your Reminders to Tasks, they will be migrated starting this week. | Learn more about the automatic migration to Tasks.


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What’s changing
In September 2022, we announced that we would be migrating Reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant to Google Tasks in order to create a single experience for managing to-dos across Google. Over the last several weeks, Google Workspace users had the opportunity to voluntarily migrate their reminders to Tasks. 


For Google Workspace users: If you have not already migrated your Reminders to Tasks, they will be migrated starting today. 


To help ensure a smooth transition, we’d like to remind admins and end users to: 


Admins: 
If you use a Google account for work or school: 
  • If you want a copy of your reminders data and Takeout is enabled for your organization, export your Reminders data before June 22, 2023. 
If you use a personal Google Account: 
  • If you haven’t already migrated, Assistant and Calendar reminders will begin to automatically migrate in June 2023. We’ll share more information on this timeline in a future update on the Workspace Updates blog. 
Availability 
  • This update impacts all Google Workspace Customers 
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What’s changing
We’re updating the Google Meet picture-in-picture experience to be more engaging and feature-rich. Directly from the picture-in-picture window, you can now: 
  • Raise your hand 
  • Use in meeting chat 
  • Turn captions on and off 
  • More effectively resize the picture-in-picture view 
  • Access flexible layouts 

Previously, you could only turn your camera or microphone on/off or leave the meeting from the picture-in-picture window. Our new picture-in-picture experience provides greater flexibility when screen sharing or navigating to a relevant screen for a more dynamic experience. 


Getting started 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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