Google Products: Expert Guides and Resources

Google Workspace offers a huge number of keyboard shortcuts that not only enable you to navigate the app interfaces quickly but also let you easily invoke many app features and settings. Here you see some of the more useful shortcut common to the Google Workspace apps, as well as some handy shortcuts you can use with Gmail and Calendar.

G Suite offers a huge number of keyboard shortcuts that not only enable you to navigate the app interfaces quickly but also let you easily invoke many app features and settings. Here, you see some of the more useful shortcuts that are common to the G Suite apps, as well as some handy shortcuts you can use with Gmail and Calendar.

You use G Suite's Forms app, as its name implies, to construct forms that gather information from people. It might be a form that enables people to register for an event, order a product or service, give feedback about something, take a survey, or test their knowledge with a quiz. Whatever the content of the form, the Forms app gathers the responses automatically so that you can later analyze them.

A chat is ideal for quick bursts of one-on-one conversation, but Google Chat, which is part of the G Suite application package, rocks a bunch of features that enable you to shift your interactions from conversation to collaboration. How to chat with a group If you have a question to answer, a controversy to settle, or a detail to hash out, the quickest and easiest way to get it done is to gather everyone involved into a group chat.

As proof of chat's ascendance in the corporate communications realm, you need look no further than the myriad ways that G Suite enables its users to message each other: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet. Before moving on to Google Chat, the next few sections take a quick look at these alternative chat methods.

If you own or have joined just a few groups in Google Groups (part of the G Suite of applications), locating the group you want isn't too much of a bother. That is, you choose My Groups from the main menu and then select the group you want in the list that appears. Even if your My Groups list is quite long, you can do a couple of things to make finding a particular group easier: If you joined or created the group relatively recently, choose Recent Groups on the main menu.

With so many other G Suite collaboration tools at your disposal, why bother with Google Groups? The simple answer is that when you create a group and then add the connected employees to that group, collaboration suddenly becomes much easier.Why? Because now you can treat the group as a single entity, which means you can communicate with everyone in the group just by communicating with the group itself.