Chat can read your docs, search across them, draft new ones, comment, and suggest edits. It never changes an existing doc on its own — every edit waits for a person to accept it.
Ask Chat
Click the sparkle button at the bottom right of Spaces (Ask Chat). With a doc open, the dialog is titled Ask Chat about this doc and Chat gets that doc as context.
Type in Your question, or start with one of the suggestions:
- With a doc open: Summarize this doc, List the action items and owners, Suggest edits to make it clearer, Draft a follow-up doc from this one.
- Without a doc: Find the docs about our launch, Draft a meeting notes doc for today, What changed in my docs this week?
Click Ask Chat. The conversation continues in Chat.
You can also ask about your docs from Chat directly — for example, "Find our pricing decision in Spaces and summarize it."
What Chat can do in Spaces
- List spaces and search docs.
- Read a doc.
- Create a new doc. If you don't name a space, Chat creates it in your personal space.
- Comment on a doc.
- Suggest edits to a doc, for a person to review.
Review suggested edits
When Chat suggests edits, they wait on the doc. Open the doc's ⋯ menu and choose Suggested edits to see them in a side panel.
Each suggestion explains what it changes and shows each change word by word: Add at the end, Insert, Rewrite, Remove, or Rename.
- Accept applies the changes. You need the Editor role. Spaces saves a Before Chat edits version first, so you can restore the doc if you change your mind. If someone edited the same text in the meantime, those changes are skipped and you see how many.
- Reject dismisses the suggestion. You need at least the Commenter role.
If there is nothing to review, the panel says Edits Chat suggests for this doc wait here for review, with a button to Ask Chat.
A doc can have up to 20 suggestions waiting, each with up to 50 changes.
Same permissions as you
Chat acts on Spaces with the access of the person using it, the same way it does everywhere else in the workspace. Chat can only find, read, comment on, or suggest edits to docs you could open yourself, with your role on each doc. A doc in someone else's personal space stays out of reach unless they shared it with you.