How to use Gemini AI to write anything in Google Docs | Digital Trends

Next, log into your Google One AI Premium account and open a new instance of Docs. Pick an existing document to open or create a new one. Look in the top-right corner of the editing window, between the Share button and your avatar; that icon launches the Gemini side panel — click it.

The side panel runs down the right edge of the window and can be expanded outward. It provides users with a set of suggested actions it can take on their behalf above the context prompt window. Use it as you would the Gemini chatbot.

This integration works just the same as the chatbot version so you can have it generate and rewrite prose, answer questions about the subject you’re writing on, even generate images that you can seamlessly integrate into your document.

Gemini in Google Docs boasts a range of generative capabilities. Obviously, it can create written prose in a wide variety of styles — from professional tasks like sales call scripts, business reports, social media captions, and reply email drafts, to creative pursuits like crafting poems, short stories, and song lyrics. You can also reference files on Drive and emails on Gmail directly through Gemini in Google Docs.

But Gemini can also both shorten and lengthen text as you need it using the summarization and expansion functions. You can ask for a summarization of a lengthy document and have Gemini return its key points, or have it elaborate on existing text to provide added detail. It can even rewrite entire passages upon request, adjusting the tone of your writing to better suit different audiences and social situations.

For example, I sketched out my work experience as a journalist over the past decade and prompted Gemini to write a cover letter for me applying for a generic technology reporter role. The first draft was rough — the AI got the order of my work history wrong, and the entire document was desperately short on details.

However, with just a few follow-up prompts, I was able to generate a workable draft cover letter that I could then add specific work details to. I wouldn’t say it was necessarily easier than writing the letter myself (as I’ll have to go back and work on it by hand to get it up to standard), but it did spare me the navel-gazing portion of the process at the start where I stare at a blank screen until a halfway decent idea comes to me, and the suggestions on how to improve the piece revealed gaps in my argument for employment.

The AI will also readily translate your text into any of 40 languages as well as generate content directly in them. For example, Gemini quickly produced a 200-word argument in favor of having a cheeseburger for lunch in French for me during testing. Though, I have no idea if its arguments are compelling as I do not speak French.