Important: This article refers to Google Workspace Labs, which is a trusted tester program for users to try new AI Features. To check if you have access to Workspace Labs features, open a document in Google Docs. In the toolbar, under File 
. Learn where you can use Workspace Labs features.
In Google Docs, use “help me create” to create formatted documents from scratch. Based on your existing Workspace files (“@ filename”), you can create:
- Proposals
- Project trackers
- Brainstorm documents
- Blog posts
- Press releases
- Campaign briefs
- Menus for dinner parties
- Family newsletters
- Vacation itineraries and more
Generate a document with Gemini
Important: This feature is currently available on desktop.
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- In the document, click File
- In the window that opens, enter a prompt that describes your document.
- Tip: To get ideas for new prompts, explore the suggested prompt tiles or click Shuffle
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- Tip: To get ideas for new prompts, explore the suggested prompt tiles or click Shuffle
- Optional: To add related documents, next to the prompt, enter the “@” symbol.
- To generate a document, click Next.
Tip: Once you submit your request and all related documents, Docs will generate:
- A document with images or cover images. Learn more about cover images.
- A document with different styles based on your prompt.
Note:
- Help me create can’t currently incorporate web search results or content from your Workspace files (unless explicitly mentioned using @filename).
- Help me create is currently limited to content extraction from other Workspace files and doesn’t include structure or style from those files.
Here are some quick tips to help you write prompts to create documents with “help me create” in Google Docs:
- When you write prompts:
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- Learn how to bring your best ideas to life with Google Workspace with Gemini. Get Generative AI training & help.
To get better results, provide as much relevant context as possible and build on your prompts, such as:
Give feedback on generated documents
Google Workspace with Gemini is constantly learning and may not be able to support your request. Because feedback may be human readable, please do not submit data that contains personal, confidential, or sensitive information.
If you get a suggestion that’s inaccurate or that you feel is unsafe, you can submit feedback. Your feedback can help improve AI-assisted Workspace features and broader Google efforts in AI.
- At the bottom left of the generated document, a message shows up, select Good draft document
or Bad draft document
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- ?In the pop-up window, you can select the data you want to share along with your feedback, including prompts, additional context, and outputs. If you don’t want to share certain data, you can uncheck it.
- If you select Bad draft document
- If you select Bad draft document
- Select Submit.
To provide general feedback on this feature, at the top, go to Help
To report a legal issue, create a request.
Turn off the “help me create” feature
To turn off any of the features on Google Workspace Labs you must exit Workspace Labs. If you exit, you will permanently lose access to all Workspace Labs features, and you won’t be able to rejoin Workspace Labs. Learn more about how to exit Workspace Labs.
Learn about Workspace Labs feature suggestions
- Workspace Labs feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and shouldn’t be attributed to Google.
- Don’t rely on Workspace Labs features as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
- Workspace Labs features may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Workspace Labs more helpful and safe.
- Don’t include personal, confidential, or sensitive information in your prompts.
- Google uses Workspace Labs data and metrics to provide, improve, and develop products, services, and machine learning technologies across Google.
- Your Workspace Labs Data may also be read, rated, annotated, and reviewed by human reviewers. Importantly, where Google uses Google-selected input (as described in the Privacy Notice) to generate output, Google will aggregate and/or pseudonymize that content and resulting output before it's reviewed by human reviewers, unless it's specifically provided as part of your feedback to Google.
How Workspace Labs data in Google Docs is collected
When you use "help me create" in Google docs, Google uses and stores the following data:
- Prompts you enter or select
- Generated text
- Document content that is referenced to generate text
- Your feedback on generated text
To understand how this data is used, review the Google Workspace Labs Privacy Notice and Terms for Personal Accounts.