Back to AI News
The Verge AI

Google Gemini adds direct file generation and editing for Docs, Sheets, and more

Google has expanded Gemini's file capabilities, allowing users to generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT, and code directly within the Gemini chat interface. The feature is available starting today for all Gemini users, with PDF editing on both web and mobile, while other formats are web-only for now. Users can expand documents to full-screen and highlight text to ask questions or prompt edits.

AI Brief

This is a concrete product update that enhances Gemini's practical utility for document workflows, directly relevant to AI productivity tools.

Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in the web version for now.

Google added support for generating and downloading files in Gemini earlier this year, but now you can tweak those files without leaving the Gemini app. Google says you can expand documents to edit them in full-screen mode and highlight text in files to ask Gemini questions or prompt …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Be the first to rate this article.

Comments & Questions (0)

Captcha
Please be respectful — let's keep the conversation friendly.

No comments yet

Be the first to comment!