More assistive writing suggestions in Google Docs

What’s changing 

We’ve added several new assistive writing features in Google Docs, which will provide a variety of suggestions to help you create impactful documents faster. Specifically, you’ll see suggestions for:

  • Alternate wording
  • Using active voice 
  • Making sentence structure more concise 
  • Use of more inclusive language 
  • Potential inappropriate words 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

In addition to Smart Compose, these new features offer a variety of stylistic and writing suggestions as you compose documents. Suggestions will appear as you type and help guide you when there are opportunities to avoid repeated or unnecessary words, helping diversify your writing and ensuring you’re using the most effective word for the situation. 

You’ll see suggestions when there are opportunities to structure a sentence with an active voice or when a sentence can be more concise, helping to make your writing more impactful. Potentially discriminatory or inappropriate language will be flagged, along with suggestions on how to make your writing more inclusive and appropriate for your audience. 

We hope this will help elevate your writing style and make more dynamic, clear, inclusive, and concise documents. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: These feature will be ON by default and can be disabled in the admin console for eligible EDU SKUs (see Availability details below) 
    • In the coming weeks we will introduce these same controls to remaining eligible SKUs (see Availability details below) 
    • Features will be able to be turned off at the domain/OU/group level. 
  • End users: 
    •  This feature will be ON by default and can be disabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Check your spelling & grammar in Google Docs on or off for your account. 
    •  When typing in Docs, tone and style suggestions are indicated with a purple underline. Selecting the underline will show a brief description for the suggestion — you can accept or reject the suggestion from here. 







Rollout pace 

Availability 

Tone and Style 

  • Available to Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials,, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers


Word Warnings 

  • Available to Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Up 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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