Google is making it much easier to search for tools in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Google is including a brand new characteristic to a few of its Workspace apps that can assist customers shortly find generally used tools with no need to sift by way of varied menus and toolbars. The “enhanced tool finder” is beginning to roll out throughout Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides immediately, showing as a search bar — recognized by a magnifying glass icon and a “Menus” label — on the top-left of the app’s ordinary toolbar.

The search bar encompasses a pill-shaped design that’s in conserving with the latest Material Design 3 overhaul. It’ll mechanically supply up generally used recommendations that modify relying on which Google Workspace app you’re utilizing, equivalent to “Page setup” in Docs, “Insert rows/columns” in Sheets, and “Edit theme” in Slides. Alternatively, customers can search for particular tools by identify or slap in an outline. For instance, looking out for “who last viewed this document,” will deliver up the Activity dashboard.

The new software finder is additionally now the house of the “find & replace” software, the place you’ll discover it pinned beneath any search outcomes. Tapping on the search bar will re-surface earlier queries and keyboard shortcuts will seem beside relevant tools in search outcomes, prompting customers to memorize these for the tools they most frequently use.

Prior to this replace, you may find varied options and tools in Google Workspace apps by heading into the Help menu and deciding on Search. This replace simply makes these search options easier to discover and auto-populates the sector with steered prompts. It could take some time for the brand new software finder to seem as this replace is rolling out steadily, although Google’s launch timeline signifies it ought to arrive on Workspace and private Google accounts by May twenty fifth.