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You can now easily identify critical irregularities and outliers in your time-series data when using Connected Sheets to analyze BigQuery data sets from Google Sheets. Anomaly detection in Connected Sheets allows users to distinguish between expected trends and true outliers without requiring manual model training or complex SQL knowledge.

Powered by BigQuery ML and TimesFM, this capability delivers "zero-shot" analysis, meaning you can uncover actionable AI insights immediately—no need to configure or wait for a model to be trained on your data. Anomaly detection also builds upon our recently introduced forecasting feature to provide a more comprehensive suite of predictive tools right where you already work.

Key features include:

  • Easy, SQL-free configuration: A user-friendly side panel guides you through configuring your anomaly detection analysis without writing a single line of SQL.
  • Clear, built-in formatting: Results are cleanly rendered with new columns for is_anomaly (a boolean indicator) and lower_bound/upper_bound intervals to help you quickly sort, filter, and interpret the findings. 
  • Customizable thresholds: Take control of your analysis by setting a specific time period, anomaly probability threshold (defaulting to 0.95), and filtering input data
  • Automated refresh ability: Just like other Connected Sheets objects, your anomaly detection extracts can be scheduled to refresh automatically, ensuring your insights are always current.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Access to anomaly detection in Connected Sheets requires permissions to a BigQuery project with billing enabled.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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We’re committed to continuously improving Sheets to ensure it is a powerful, responsive, and scalable spreadsheet tool for your needs. To that end, we’re announcing significant performance improvements across the entire Sheets experience, especially for larger data sets, making it faster than ever to import, analyze, and manage your data.

Some of the key Sheets journeys we’ve optimized to help you work with larger datasets more efficiently include:

  • Get started faster: You can now open and start working in large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 30% faster. 
  • Rapid data analysis: You can now filter large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.
  • Easier formatting: You can now apply conditional formatting to large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.
These enhancements are part of our broader effort to ensure a smooth experience even as your spreadsheets grow in complexity.

Beta now available: Sheets capacity doubled to 20 million cells

Alongside faster analysis, we’re opening a new beta program to give users early access to doubled cell limits in Google Sheets—from 10 million cells to 20 million cells. This limit applies to new, existing, and imported files. Fill out the form to register your organization for the beta program and double Sheets limits.

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Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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We're introducing Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets, a new AI-powered feature designed to make data preparation and manual entry even easier. Fill with Gemini infers your intent, allowing you to populate data 9x faster than manual entry for 100-cell tasks.*

Whether you need to extract information from the web or categorize existing data, Fill with Gemini handles the heavy lifting, eliminating the need for complex formulas. For example, a marketing team can use it to automatically generate suggested responses based on customer feedback messages, or a small business owner could use it to quickly fill out product details just by describing what they need.

Fill with Gemini offers two ways to enrich your data, saving you time and effort:

  • Drag-and-drop: If your column has at least one completed cell, you can use a new drag entry point to fill the column based on the context of the table.
  • Prompt-based filling: For empty multi-cell selections, you can use a one-click entry point to "Fill" the range. You can either automatically fill cells when a column has at least one completed cell or write a custom prompt to fit your specific needs.


*Data based on a 95-participant study comparing manual entry against Fill with Gemini on a 100-cell task.

Getting started

Note: Through July 15, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for AI function in Google Sheets, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of AI function in Google Sheets.

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We're excited to introduce a new AI-powered feature in Google Sheets that allows you to transform unstructured text into organized tables.

Manually formatting and organizing unformatted data in spreadsheets can be a tedious, time-consuming task. Now, when you paste content like bulleted lists, freeform text, or JSON we surface a “Convert to table” button which leverages Gemini to turn your pasted content into a table with just a single click. This helps to streamline data entry so you can move to analysis faster.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

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We’re excited to introduce new Gemini in Sheets capabilities that enable you to build and edit entire spreadsheets using simple natural language.

Whether you need a quick view of your small business's financial health or a complex project tracker, Gemini in Sheets orchestrates the multi-step construction from start to finish. Workspace Intelligence synthesizes data across your files, emails, chats, and the web to help you visualize your data with stylized tables, formulas, pivot tables, and charts.

Gemini in Sheets can handle complex, multi-step tasks that previously required expert-level knowledge of Sheets. For example, you can ask Gemini to do end-to-end creation to "build a P&L dashboard leveraging my historic service incidents and rate cards," or do side-by-side editing to “add scorecards and bar charts above my sales and inventory data”. Gemini will synthesize relevant information, construct a plan for your approval, and then build out the entire formatted spreadsheet.

Key capabilities include:

  • End-to-end creation: Build entire spreadsheets from a single prompt, including data retrieval and formatting. 
  • Side-by-side editing: Refine and update existing models, budgets, or analysis directly in the side panel.
  • Workspace Intelligence: Automatically pull context and data from other Workspace apps to ensure your spreadsheet is accurate and relevant.
  • Advanced task fulfillment: Leverages Sheets’ most powerful tools, like pivot tables and complex formulas, without requiring manual configuration.
  • Advanced optimization: Handle complex optimization problems that typically require complex manual formulas or third-party tools. Powered by research from Google DeepMind and Google Research OR-Tools. 
  • State-of-the-art performance: Gemini in Sheets achieved a 70.48% success rate in autonomously manipulating complex, real-world spreadsheets on the full SpreadsheetBench dataset, nearing human expert ability.



Note: This feature is currently available in the US in English only.

Getting started

Note: Through July 15, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for the improved Gemini in Sheets experience, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature, informing them of the promotional access period. Per-user usage limits will apply after July 15; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Gemini in Sheets.

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We are introducing updates to the logic and parameter support for a targeted set of Google Sheets functions. These changes are designed to improve error visibility, offer more control over data, and ensure seamless compatibility when importing files.

Specifically, you will notice improvements across several categories of functions, including:

  • Better error surfacing: Select informational and statistical functions (such as HYPERLINK, VALUE, and T.TEST) will now more accurately flag underlying errors, like broken URLs or zero-variance denominators, preventing potential data issues from being masked.
  • Enhanced parameter support: Several statistical distribution functions (such as HYPGEOM.DIST, NORM.S.DIST, and LOGNORM.DIST) now support additional parameters, allowing for greater control and ensuring they import smoothly from external spreadsheets.
  • Refined calculation logic: Select financial and array functions (such as CUMIPMT and FREQUENCY) have been updated to provide more precise and predictable results based on your specific data inputs.
These enhancements reduce friction and provide more trustworthy outcomes for users who rely on precise mathematical behaviors. You can now troubleshoot complex spreadsheets more effectively and import external files with confidence, knowing your formulas will evaluate as expected. For a comprehensive list of Sheets functions and their specific inputs and behavior, please visit our Help Center.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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We are adding two new functions to Google Sheets, =SHEET and =SHEETS. These additions help users manage and reference spreadsheets with multiple tabs more effectively. 

The new functions operate as follows:

  • =SHEET(value): Returns the sheet number of a specified sheet name or reference. If the argument is omitted, it returns the number of the sheet containing the function.
  • =SHEETS(): Returns the number of all sheets in the spreadsheet.
Please note that the =SHEETS function in Google Sheets does not accept arguments (such as a range of tabs). Formulas containing arguments for this function will result in an error. 

These functions allow you to perform calculations based on the structure of your spreadsheet. Both functions are dynamic and will recalculate when a sheet is added, deleted, moved, or renamed within a document. This ensures your data analysis remains accurate even as the organization of your spreadsheet changes. 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Use =SHEET() or =SHEETS() in any Sheets document to get started with the feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts 

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We are introducing a new capability in Connected Sheets for BigQuery that allows users to generate data forecasts directly within Google Sheets using the power of BigQuery ML (BQML) and Google’s state-of-the-art TimesFM model. Users can now predict future sales, demand volume, or other key business metrics without needing to write SQL, use Python, or customize and train their own models.

This feature is designed for simplicity and speed. TimesFM’s powerful foundation model is pre-trained on billions of data points from real-world datasets, enabling business users to generate sophisticated predictions on their data immediately without the complex, time-consuming training pipelines typically associated with machine learning.

Key features include:

  • Simple configuration: Forecasts can be created from any existing BigQuery dataset or custom query using a user-friendly configuration pane in the Sheets UIl.
  • Customizable parameters: Users can adjust forecast parameters, such as the prediction horizon for how far into the future the user wants to predict and confidence intervals, or use our default options to get started.
  • Granular analysis: The feature supports breakouts by any given data dimension, allowing users to run multiple time series forecasts simultaneously (e.g., forecasting sales broken down by region or product category).
  • Visual insights: For single time series forecasts, Sheets automatically generates a helpful chart visualizing the forecast alongside historical data.

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Create a Connected Sheet. On the Preview view, click on “Advanced Analytics” and then “Create a Forecast”. 

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts 
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What’s changing

We're making it easier than ever to analyze massive datasets by more seamlessly connecting Google Sheets and BigQuery. Now, users will see a new option to import .csv files containing datasets of any size directly to BigQuery while opening large .csv files from Drive or via the Data > Data Connectors menu flow in Sheets. From there, users can analyze the entire dataset using familiar Sheets features such as charts, pivot tables, and formulas via Connected Sheets. 

Previously, preparing a large dataset for analysis in Connected Sheets was often a multi-step process that could have involved relying on separate data pipelines, processing tools or multiple upload steps, all before the user could return to Sheets to start their analysis. This new connectivity expedites the analysis workflow by allowing users to directly ingest large datasets and begin analysis seamlessly, all within a single interface. This update will help users move from raw data to insights much faster.

Part of the upload dialog when users choose to import a file to BigQuery via the Google Sheets interface


Part of the upload dialog when users choose to import a file to BigQuery via the Google Sheets interface


Users with appropriate permissions will also see a new option to import with Connected Sheets when a file is too large for native upload to Sheets


Users with appropriate permissions will also see a new option to import with Connected Sheets when a file is too large for native upload to Sheets

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Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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We are rolling out two significant updates to Connected Sheets pivot tables backed by BigQuery, designed to increase analytical capacity and streamline your workflow.
 
First, we’re doubling row capacity for pivot tables backed by BigQuery in Connected Sheets, from 100,000 to 200,000 rows. This change will allow users to bring in substantially larger views of BigQuery datasets in a single pivot table, enabling wider, more comprehensive analyses within the familiar Sheets environment.

Second, we’re launching the ability to “drill down” into Connected Sheets pivot tables, allowing you to immediately access the granular data making up any aggregated value. Users can now double-click on a pivot table cell or use the right-click > Show details menu option to instantly create a pre-configured extract, focusing on the specific records that make up that summary metric.

Automatically create a pre-configured extract to drill down into any pivot table aggregated cell


Automatically create a pre-configured extract to drill down into any pivot table aggregated cell

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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What’s changing

We’re excited to announce that client-side encrypted (CSE) files including Google Docs, Sheets and Slides now support emoji reactions. Users can use emojis to react to comments and content, bringing an expressive collaboration feature to CSE files. 

This update brings a core Google Workspace feature into our secure CSE framework, allowing users to provide quick feedback, express agreement, or acknowledge updates. Teams can now work together more efficiently and expressively, while still benefiting from the robust security of client-side encryption.

Emoji reactions are fully integrated in CSE documents. Users can add, resolve, delete, and re-open emoji reactions, and these reactions are also surfaced in a file’s version history. Reactions are preserved during export or when editing a Microsoft Office file in Workspace. They are also preserved when additional encryption is added to or removed from a file.


Emoji reactions to content and comments in a CSE Doc

Emoji reactions to content and comments in a CSE Doc

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about emoji reactions.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace

  • Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus

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 What’s changing

Starting today, Gemini in Sheets can understand and analyze multiple tables within a single tab of a spreadsheet.  This new functionality allows you to ask questions and perform analysis that spans multiple data sources, dramatically increasing the power and accuracy of your queries. You can select or deselect tables to focus Gemini’s attention, and you can also directly make a selection within a table to be used as input for your query.

You can use this update while:

  1. Generating formulas: Generate complex formulas that reference and perform calculations across several tables in one go. For example, you can now have Gemini write XLOOKUP functions to look up values from one table to use in another, or aggregate data from multiple tables into a single summary calculation. 
  2. Analyzing and generating charts: Ask Gemini to analyze data scattered across multiple tables to uncover insights and create data visualizations. You can get a holistic view of your data, whether you’re identifying top performers by combining sales data from different tables, or creating a single chart that compares sales performance data from separate tables.
  3. Editing your data: Apply changes to multiple tables at once with a single request. For example, you can now use Gemini to apply consistent conditional formatting across all your tables in a spreadsheet or build a single pivot table that summarizes data from multiple tables. 
  4. Targeting analysis with selections: You can now make selections within your tables to focus Gemini’s analysis. Ask for summaries of specific data, find outliers in a selected range, or generate formulas based on the data you’ve highlighted. For example, you can select a column and ask, "What are the trends in the selected column?"
Gemini in Google Sheets

Prompt: “Generate a formula that fills the column next to due date that looks up the assigned teammate based on task id” 

Generate one chart of trends over time which contain the data from all three teams

Prompt: “Generate a formula that fills the column next to due date that looks up the assigned teammate based on task id” 

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 

  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we introduced powerful new editing options within Gemini in Sheets like creating pivot tables, applying filters, and adding conditional formatting. Building on that momentum, we’re excited to announce that Gemini can now execute multiple actions at once from a single prompt - no need to simplify your instructions or disrupt your workflow by typing multiple different prompts. Plus, Gemini also newly supports an expanded library of editing tasks. 

With Gemini’s understanding of compound requests, you can now describe a complex, multi-step goal in plain language, and Gemini will handle the rest. From structuring and cleaning raw data to performing bulk structural edits, you’ll save valuable time in your workday. 

1. Automate complex formatting and data cleaning tasks: Gemini can now execute on prompts that require chaining multiple actions together. 

Multiple, simultaneous formatting requests: For example, you can now ask Gemini to completely reformat a plain project tracker in one go. Ask it to add dropdowns for "Status" and "Priority," insert a new formula column to calculate "Days Until Due Date," add a "Completed" checkbox column, and freeze the header row for easy viewing. Gemini will understand this multi-step request and perform all the actions at once. 



Combined analytical and structural changes: For instance, ask Gemini to clean up a sales report by deleting rows for inactive reps, highlighting top performers who are above 120% of their quota in green, and then adding a new "Notes" column for follow-up actions. 



Complex structure updates: For instance, you can ask Gemini to delete all "Archived" rows, then insert a new "Team" column with a dropdown list of team names, and finally add a new "Updated Due Date" column to prepare the sheet for the next planning cycle. 



2. Make edits more easily with additional supported actions: We've expanded the library of actions Gemini supports, which now includes: 

  • Formatting: Add conditional formatting, set a number format, format as a table, or freeze a dimension. 
  • Data Entry & Manipulation: Add a checkbox, add a dropdown (or convert a cell to a dropdown), fill a range with a formula, or find and replace. 
  • Structure & Organization: Insert or delete a dimension (row/column), sort data, or add a pivot table. 
  • Filtering: Create or clear filters. 

For example, you can now use natural language for complex data cleaning tasks, like asking Gemini to "Replace 'Software' and 'Web Hosting' with 'IT Services' everywhere on the sheet." 



These updates make Gemini a more powerful and intuitive partner in Sheets, taking on complex, time-consuming tasks so you can focus on the insights and decisions that matter. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Pro for Education 

Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the legacy Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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Earlier this year, we announced AI function in Sheets to help you generate text, summarize information, categorize data, and analyze sentiment at scale, directly from any cell in your spreadsheet. Last month, we expanded feature availability to seven additional languages. 

Now, we're making AI function even more powerful by automatically grounding it in results from Google Search, so it can access up-to-the-minute information from the web to answer your prompts. 

For example, you can now use the AI function to find the daily box office schedule for newly released movies, track the daily market sentiment for a new product launch, or get the latest weather information as you plan an upcoming vacation. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Ultra for Education 

Also available to: 

  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 

  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

Organizations who have configured private IP Looker Core instances can now enable Connected Sheets for their teams, bringing easier analysis and sharing capabilities to their users. Now, users who were previously restricted from using Connected Sheets due to Private IP controls on their Looker instances will be able to leverage powerful and intuitive spreadsheet capabilities to better understand and analyze their Looker data.


Getting started 

  • Admins: Looker Connected Sheets must be enabled by an admin before it works. Visit the Help Center to learn more about enabling Connected Sheets for Looker. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default as configured by your admin. To connect to Looker Private IP instances, just copy your instance ID in Looker and use it to connect in Sheets via Data > Data Connectors > Connect to Looker. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Connected Sheets for Looker. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 

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Update (Oct 16): We updated the "Availability" section of this post to reflect the accurate edition availability for the feature. Previously, some editions were listed incorrectly. 

What’s changing 

Last year we introduced conditional notifications in Google Sheets, which allow users to create custom rules in spreadsheets that send email notifications when certain criteria are met. Now we are expanding rule limits for conditional notifications from 10 to 20 rules per spreadsheet. For example, users can choose to be notified when a given task’s status changes or when they are added as an assignee. By expanding the rule limit per spreadsheet, users can take advantage of the feature more frequently and for a wider range of use cases. 



Users can customize up to 20 rules that outline the criteria for when an email is sent 


When rule conditions are met, recipients will receive emails informing them of the change 

Getting started 

  • Admins: This feature will be on by default. There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default. To use it, go to Google Sheets > Tools > Conditional Notifications and configure up to 20 new rules. Use our Help Center to learn more about using conditional notifications. 

Rollout pace 

  • This feature is available now. 

Availability 

Available to Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard, Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Education Plus 
  • Enterprise Essentials

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What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we made it easier to generate charts and insights using Gemini in Google Sheets. Building on that momentum, we’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to formula generation in Gemini for Sheets. Specifically, we've upgraded Gemini to include detailed natural language formula explanations, provide formula error explanation and self-correction, and to output multiple formula options. 

With these updates, Gemini can provide a full, reasoned response, making formula generation smarter and more resilient, and helping users to understand the formulas and calculations happening in their sheets. 

1. Detailed natural language formula explanations: 
Complex formulas can now be returned with step-by-step explanations of how they work. This improves user understanding and builds trust, making it easier to learn and adapt formulas for future use. If Gemini doesn’t provide an explanation as part of the response, you can always ask in your next query how the generated formula works. 




2. Error explanation and self-correction: 
Gemini can now explain why a formula failed (e.g., "the date in A1 is formatted as text") and, in a follow-up turn, use the error message to generate a corrected formula that solves the underlying issue. 



3. Multiple formula options: 
For more complex tasks or when there are several ways to achieve a result, Gemini can now provide multiple formulas. 


Getting started 

  • Admins: To access Gemini in Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on the personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. 
  • End users: You can access Gemini for Sheets in the side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (spark button) in the top right corner of Sheets. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Sheets. 

Rollout pace 

  • This update is already available for all Gemini users. 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Pro for Education

Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we announced AI function in Sheets. You can use the AI function to prompt Gemini to generate text, summarize information, categorize data, or analyze sentiment at scale with generated content appearing directly in the cells you choose. Now, AI function is available to users in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German. 


Getting started 

  • Admins: This feature will be available by default to users with Gemini in Sheets enabled. Use our Help Center to learn more about managing access to Gemini features in Workspace services. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default for users with access to Gemini in Sheets using Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, or German. Use our Help Center to learn more about using the AI function in Google Sheets. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Ultra for Education 

Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
  • Gemini Business* Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

We are introducing a new condensed view for version history in Google Sheets. By default, Sheets will now only show rows with cells that had changes in the selected version. The condensed version history will help users identify relevant edits to the sheet more quickly and efficiently.

Version history is a tool which can help users recover information, understand changes, or see who made a specific edit to a spreadsheet. To return to the previous version history experience, where the entire sheet is displayed and the cells with changes are highlighted, simply select the checkbox to “Show unmodified rows”. Note: some embedded objects, like images, may not display when the condensed view is on. 


The new condensed view in version history, which only shows rows with cells that had changes in the selected version 








Sheets with no changes made in the selected revision will automatically hide all rows, unless the setting is unselected. 




The expanded view of version history, which shows all rows. This is still available by selecting the ‘show unmodified rows’ option within version history. 


Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: The condensed version history will be ON by default. The previous experience will still be available by clicking the ‘Show unmodified rows’ option when looking at the version history. Use our Help Center to learn how to see earlier versions of a file. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 

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What’s changing 

Building on the introduction of intelligent suggestions for table conversion, we’re now using Gemini to make tables in Sheets even more useful. Now, when you accept a “Convert to table” suggestion, Gemini will automatically format your data as a table and create a meaningful table name (e.g., Project_Status).

Tables help organize your data, simplifying common tasks like sorting and filtering. They also enable the use of table references, which use the table's meaningful name in place of cell coordinates. For example, a formula like =SUM(E2:E15) becomes the more descriptive =SUM(Office_Expenses[Amount]). These names are not only easier to read and understand, but they are also easier to write, appearing in formula autocomplete suggestions as you type. 

Crucially, table references are dynamic. The formula's range automatically expands and contracts as you add or remove rows from your table, ensuring your calculations are always up to date and accurate, without you ever needing to manually edit cell ranges again. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) currently underway 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 12, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business*
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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