From the course: Google Docs Essential Training

Use Gemini to help you create content

From the course: Google Docs Essential Training

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Use Gemini to help you create content

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- [Instructor] Gemini is Google's artificial intelligence. If you purchased and subscribed to Gemini, you'll have an icon on the top left hand side of the screen right next to your avatar icon. In Docs, you can click the Help Me Write button on top of a blank document, and it's going to open up a dialogue box in which you can put in a prompt to have Gemini draft up anything that you could possibly need. On an existing document, you can have Gemini add text to it by putting the cursor on a blank line and clicking Help Me Write all the way on the right hand side. It's going to open up that same dialogue box. You can insert your prompt, and you can have that text inserted exactly where you need it. Gemini can also rewrite existing text for you. You can select your text, and this time when you click the Help Me Write button, you're going to get a different list. You can change the tone of the text to be more formal or casual. You can bulletize it. You can even make it longer or shorter. And finally, you can rephrase it entirely. I'll choose Bulletize. Whenever you change a selection, it's going to give you the results. For example, here's my bulletized list. I can either refine it, that is go through it again with some new selections. I can choose to insert the new text into my document. This is going to leave the original text intact, or I can replace the original text outright and put the bulleted list in its place instead. I'll click the X to close out of this. You can also use the side panel. If I click Ask Gemini on the top right hand side of the screen, it's going to open up a sidebar. I can enter a prompt directly here to create drafts and insert text for me. I did want to use this opportunity to point out that this same sidebar exists in other products. For example, I've been using Google Drive a lot. Here's the Gemini icon, and it's going to open up the same sidebar. So, I did want to let you know that this is not just in Google Docs. In fact, you can even create text that you can put into Google Docs from other products like Google Drive. I'll start my prompt off by asking to create a blog post about our latest offerings based on the product listings in, and I can use the @ symbol just like we inserted with smart chips, except this time, it's going to pull up files, so I can generate content based on existing docs. For example, I'll select my company information for new hires, which as we know has a whole section about our product listings. And here we go. I'll click the three dots to expand my blog post. And down at the bottom, I can click the Copy icon. I'll bring it up to a blank Google Doc and paste it in. I'll treat this content as first draft only. That is, I will be editing it. But there's one more thing that this blog post needs, and that's an image. We can do that with Gemini also. I'll reopen my side pane. And I'll ask Gemini to create an image of a field of solar panels with red ribbons tied to them all. And here we go. It gives me four choices. As soon as I find the one I like, I can click the arrow and insert it directly into my doc. So we now have the first draft of a blog post along with an image that we can use. Up next, I'm going to show you how you can use Gemini to summarize docs and answer questions about existing content.

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