You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now

Judgment

Team leads and Gemini users must decide whether to move document drafting into Gemini chats, accepting that only PDFs can be previewed and edited on mobile while Docs, Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT, and code stay web-only for now.

Basis

Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge, reports that Gemini users can now generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code without leaving the Gemini app, available starting today for all Gemini users. The mechanism is in-chat editing rather than a handoff: Google says you can expand documents to edit them in full-screen mode and highlight text in a file to ask Gemini questions or prompt changes, such as highlighting a table and asking Gemini to turn it into a graph. The limit is platform scope, not format count — PDF preview and editing work on both web and mobile, but every other file format is web-only for now. This builds on Google's earlier support for generating and downloading files in Gemini, and sits alongside existing Workspace integrations like the Gemini bar in Google Docs; Bonifield notes Anthropic shipped a comparable generate-and-edit feature in Claude chats earlier this year. So the practical gain is loop closure, and the practical cost is that anyone working from a phone falls back to PDFs or leaves the chat.