Google Meet now integrated into Docs and Sheets

Google has now built its Meet video conferencing service directly into Docs, Sheets, and Performance. You can present a document, edit it and still see your colleagues in the same tab at the same time.

Google Meet integration

Video conferencing has become very popular in recent years, on the one hand in private, but especially in the workplace. It’s no coincidence that Meet has been making improvements to Meet over the past few years and this time, Meet is also getting a place in its other Workspace apps.

You will be able to start a video meeting from Docs, Sheets, or Slides. In that case, the video feeds of your interlocutors appear on the right of your document in a sidebar, which Google shows in a blog post. Google has previously announced the integration of Meet, in May 2021, but the rollout of the feature has been delayed. Now it will happen anyway, because the update should be available to all users between now and a few weeks.

The big advantage of integrating video conferences into the other office apps is that you can work more productively. In the same tab you can work on a document, share the document in real-time and see your colleagues.

Emoji, PiP, live streams and encryption

Furthermore, Google has also talked in its blog post about reactions that you can give in a meeting. They are well-known emoji such as a smiling face, applause and a thumbs up or down. You can also open a meeting in Chrome in a small floating screen, or a Picture-in-Picture mode. That way you can drag a reduced image of your colleagues on your screen while you are possibly working.

Google will also improve meeting streaming. Later this year, a host will be able to stream a meeting directly to YouTube, and people watching the live stream will also be able to participate in polls and Q&A sessions from the meeting. Finally, Google is announcing that it will enable end-to-end encryption for all meetings in Meet by the end of the year.

Google has not shared anything about a possible integration of Meet into Workspace’s apps on phones. Do you already see Meet appearing in Docs or Sheets? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article.

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