Google Workspace Features Update: March 2024

Google Workspace Features Update Summary - March 2024

The summary of essential information about new features and improvements for Google Workspace customers in February 2024

Product: Sheet

Smooth scrolling in Google Sheets now available on desktop

Availability:  Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Who’s impacted: End users

With smooth scrolling, you can scroll to a specific part of a row or column and stop wherever you’d like within the spreadsheet. 
This update works with all Sheets features, such as frozen rows, hidden columns, charts, buttons, comments, on right-to-left layouts, and when you use scrollbars (instead of a mouse/trackpad). Read more.

Product: Meet

Google Meet co-host support added for client-side encrypted meetings

Availability:  Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers

Who’s impacted: Admins and End users

Client-side encrypted meetings are now getting support for using the co-hosts feature. This means that an organizer can plan and book client-side encrypted video meetings on behalf of other users and assign those as co-hosts to allow them to join and open the meetings independently from the organizer. Client-side encrypted meetings differ from point-to-point encrypted meetings in the way they always require a host to join first. This task can now be delegated and shared between multiple users without the organizer ever joining the call. Read more.

Product: Chat

Import data from other messaging platforms using the Google Chat API is now generally available

Availability:  Available to all Google Workspace customers

Who’s impacted: Admins and developers 

Google Workspace developers registered in our Workspace Developer Preview program have been able to import user data from other messaging platforms into Google Chat using the Google Chat APIs. This functionality is now generally available to all Workspace developers and admins. Read more.

Product: Sheet

Set up dropdown chips more easily in Google Sheets

Availability:  Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google account 

Who’s impacted: End users

Google is introducing an improved comments experience in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to help you find and take action on comments easier than ever before. While you will continue to see and interact with the comments experience you’re familiar with, you’ll also notice updates to our comment cards, icons, and more. Read more.

Product: Gmail

Create fully customized email campaigns using new layout editor tool

Availability:  Available to Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus and Workspace Individual subscribers 

Who’s impacted: End users

Today, Google announced that even more users across Google Workspace editions can now create customized email layouts using a new email layout editor that is accessible from the compose screen in Gmail or Google Drive. In the layout editor, you can create a new email layout from scratch or select from a predefined set of email templates, which include images, text elements and buttons. Read more.

Product: Chat

Hovercards for group messages and spaces are now available in Google Chat 

Availability:  Available now to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. 

Who’s impacted: End users

When hovering over a space or group chat within the left navigation in Google Chat, you will now see a hovercard that displays an abridged list of members and their avatars. This is especially useful when you need to distinguish one chat from another. In addition, you can include space hovercards across Chat apps using the shared hovercard library.  Read more.

Source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com