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Improvements to content organization in Google Docs

What’s changing

We’re rolling out improvements to the formatting and customization options for tables of contents in Google Docs. You now have the options to: 
  • Toggle between three default styles 
  • Toggle page numbers 
  • Toggle tab leader styling (adds lines between a heading and the page number) 
  • Include and indent headings based on levels 

With these enhanced customizations, we hope this highly requested feature refines titles and headings to personalize the content of your document. 

We’re also reorganizing the options included in the table properties sidebar in Docs to make it easier for you to find and utilize table formatting options. Upon adding or editing a table, you will notice a new “Table” section with alignment preferences and a new “Cell” section with clearer cell-specific formatting options within the table properties sidebar. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: 
    • For tables, go to Insert > Table > click the “Table options” button in the top toolbar to open the Table properties sidebar. You can also right-click a table and select “Table properties” to open the sidebar. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding and editing tables
    • For table of contents, go to Insert > Table of contents. In paginated mode, there are three table of contents quick layout options: 
      • Plain text 
      • Dotted 
      • Links 
    • Right-click the newly created table of contents and select “Table of contents options” to open the sidebar. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding a title, heading, or table of contents in a document

Rollout pace 

Table of Contents: 
Table sidebar: 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Available to users with personal Google Accounts

Resources 

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – March 17, 2023

New updates 

There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. 

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Introducing new space manager capabilities in Google Chat

Space managers now have additional capabilities to ensure effective conversations take place in spaces: space configuration, member management, and conversation moderation. | Learn more.
External label for Google Meet participants
“External” labels will be available in Google Meet. Users will see a label in the top-left corner of their meeting screen indicating that participants who are external to the meeting host’s domain have joined the meeting. In the people panel, external participants will be denoted with the same icon. | Learn more.
Provide custom Google Meet background images for your users
Admins can now provide a set of images for the background replace feature in Google Meet. This will enable users to easily select an image that properly represents their company's specific brand and style. | Learn more
Improving your security with shorter Session Length defaults
To further improve security for our customers, we are changing the default session length to 16 hours for existing Google Cloud customers. Note that this update refers to managing user connections to Google Cloud services (e.g. Google Cloud console), not connections to Google services (e.g. Gmail on the web). | Learn more

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domainsScheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog post for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:
Scheduled Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains: