Gemini can now create and edit PDFs, Docs, Sheets and Slides inside the chat

What changed in the chat window

Google has added a way to change files inside Gemini, its AI assistant, rather than only handing them over. As AIBase reported, every Gemini user can now have a file created, look at a preview, and open it full screen to edit, on both the web and the mobile app.

Until now, the chat could produce a file for you to export, and any tweaks had to happen somewhere else. Now the whole job can stay in one place, from the first draft to the last correction.

Which files work, and where

The upgrade covers PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Markdown files (plain text with simple formatting marks), TXT files and code files.

Devices matter here. PDF preview and editing works on both web and mobile, while the other formats are mostly limited to the web for now.

Once a file is open, you can edit it in full screen, highlight a passage and ask Gemini a question about just that part, and turn a table into a chart interactively.

Part of a wider race

AIBase describes this as chatbots moving from tools that produce content toward shared workspaces. Google had already built related abilities into Workspace, its suite of office apps, and into the sidebar panel. Anthropic earlier added similar document and presentation editing to the Claude chat window.

The pattern is clear: the main AI companies all want you to finish the job without leaving the conversation. The more of your work happens inside the chat, the more likely you are to keep using it.

What the report leaves out

The report does not give a price or a date for bringing the other formats to phones. It also says nothing about how well the editing holds up on long or complicated files.

So treat it as something to test. Start with a small document you can easily check, and read the result before you send it to anyone.