Use Gemini Where Your Docs Already Live

Gemini is built into Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and Drive. This card is about using it in place — acting on the document you're in — instead of copying content out to a separate chat.

The context is already there. In Docs, Gemini can act on the open document; in Gmail it can see the thread; in Drive it can reference your files. Working in place removes the copy-paste round-trip and its errors, and lets Gemini ground answers in your actual content rather than a pasted fragment.

Drafting and rewriting in Docs, triaging or replying in Gmail, generating formulas or summarising tabs in Sheets, or asking questions across files in Drive.

Sensitive content you don't want processed, or heavy multi-step reasoning better suited to the full Gemini app. Match the surface to the task.

In Gmail: "Summarise this thread in 3 bullets and draft a reply that agrees to the Tuesday meeting but asks to move it 30 minutes later."
In Sheets: "Write a formula for column E that flags rows where spend exceeds budget in column C."
In Drive: "Find the contract that mentions the 2025 renewal and summarise its termination clause."

Instead of pasting a 40-message email thread into a chat, you ask Gemini in Gmail to summarise it and draft a reply in context — the thread is already the context, so the draft references the right names and dates.

Ground larger tasks in Drive: reference specific files so Gemini answers from your source of truth, not its training data. Combine with a Gem for a repeated in-Workspace job (e.g. a standing 'weekly report from these sheets' assistant).

• Copying document content into a separate chat and losing the surrounding context.
• Trusting a generated Sheets formula without testing it on a couple of known rows.
• Using an in-app quick action for a task that really needed the full Gemini app's depth.