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Few are aware that Google Drive applications have built-in chat features. This is just one of the ways G Suite differentiates itself from competitors such as Microsoft Office. Google\u2019s software is cloud-based and had collaboration built in from the very beginning. In contrast, competitors in the space only recently adopted real-time collaboration and web-based editing.<\/p>\n

The G Suite platform apps are build around collaboration. There are, of course, external chat platforms like Hangouts that have a larger feature set. However, if you just need a quick way to ask a question and get an answer, the internal Google Sheets chat feature<\/a> is your best option.<\/p>\n

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Google Sheets and collaboration<\/h3>\n

Historically, Google\u2019s office style software always had collaboration as its main differentiator. Simultaneous editing was always a feature of the Google Drive apps. It was implemented much sooner than in the Apple and Microsoft equivalents for example.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the screenshot below. Here, you see that Google already promoted real-time collaboration in 2009. During that time, spreadsheets were still called Google Docs, and Drive wasn’t even a thing. <\/p>\n

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With simultaneous editing as a core feature of the Google Docs software suite, it was only a matter of time before a chat feature was added.<\/p>\n

Today, all three of the core Google Drive software (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) have similar chat features. It isn\u2019t much compared to independent chat platforms like WhatsApp or Messenger. For its use case, however, it gets the job done.<\/p>\n

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How to enable chat in Google Sheets<\/h3>\n

Most importantly, chat is not available whilst working on a Google Sheet document by yourself. In fact, there are a couple conditions that you need to meet for chat to work between you and collaborators.<\/p>\n

First of all, everyone needs to have access to your document, so you\u2019ll have to share it with them. Click the green share button in the upper right corner, next to your profile picture to do that.<\/p>\n

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Secondly, you and your collaborators must have the document open at the same time.<\/p>\n

To tell if there are other people in the document at the same time as you, look to the left of the share button. Here you see all active collaborators’ profile pictures.<\/p>\n

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Finally, you\u2019re able to start chatting. The chat button appears on top of the profile picture stack in the upper right-hand corner.<\/p>\n

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Chat isn’t showing in Google Sheets<\/h4>\n

It is possible that you can’t see the chat feature in your Google Sheets file. In order to chat in Google Sheets (and all Google Drive apps), you and at least one other person in the document have to follow these rules:<\/p>\n