Google’s G Suite is getting a few upgrades.
Here is a small but very useful (and long overdue) update to Google’s G Suite apps: G Suite (AKA Google Apps for Work) customers will be able to add their own in a category that’s separate from the standard-issue templates. Professionally designed templates were added as a feature last year, but G Suite customers can improve their experience.
After a user submits a file into a shared template gallery on the home screen of Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms, the coworkers can adapt it and use it as a template when needed.
With these customizable templates, your teams can focus less on formatting and more on driving impact and sharing success,” G Suite product manager Brian Levee wrote in a blog post.
The new gallery and template creation process looks to be far more integrated with all of Google’s G Suite apps than the old process ever was. The old templates gallery is allegedly acheduled for shut down in early 2017.
While you may not use templates much in your day-to-day G Suite life, this is a necessary feature for businesses. You don’t want to have to recreate your report or newsletter layout every time you start a new one, after all. For the most part then, the addition of template support in Google Docs is yet another example of Google trying to make its service more attractive to business users as it gets serious about the enterprise.
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