Google Docs will now let you delegate like a boss
Dish out tasks directly from your Google Docs
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GoogleWorkspace is rolling out an update for itsword processorthat will give workers a new way to parcel out tasks to collaborators.
In ablog post, the company outlined howGoogle Docsusers can now manually assign checklist items to themselves or other colleagues. These tasks will then appear in each individual’sGoogle Tasksdashboard.
“When edits are made to an assigned item in Tasks, such as a change to the title, due date or completion state, those updates will show in the Doc, and vice versa,” Google explained.
Upgrading Google Workspace
The latest Google Docs update might not be ground-breaking, but it does represent the continuation of a series of improvements designed to create new interactions between apps housed withinGoogle Workspace.
Although arecent surveycommissioned byTechRadar Promade clear that Workspace still plays second fiddle toMicrosoft 365in theoffice softwarespace, with just 15% market share, the functionality gap between the two has closed rapidly.
At the start of the pandemic, Google also rebranded itsproductivity suitefrom G Suite to Workspace, signalling an increase in investment asremote workingbegan to take hold. As part of this process, the company pledged to create a more “deeply integrated user experience”..
Since then, Google has rolled out hundreds of upgrades in an attempt to deliver on this objective and further fine-tune its services for the post-pandemic working environment.
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Recent examples include the integration ofMeetintoDocs,SheetsandSlides, allowing workers to quickly spin up avideo meetingwhen collaborating on a project, and the addition of new AI functionality tocloud storageserviceDrivethat helps surface the most important files on a per user basis.
The latest Google Docs upgrade, small as it may be, will at least contribute to the overall sense of a more tightly integrated user experience, one that relies less on hopping between isolated applications.
The functionality will be available to all business users by the middle of next month, but will not be extended to personal account holders.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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