How To Use Explore Tool In Google Docs?

To effectively use the Explore Tool in Google Docs, follow these steps:

1. Open a document in Google Docs on your computer.
2. Locate the Explore Tool icon at the bottom right corner of the interface (or go to Tools > Explore).

Once you've opened the Explore Tool, it provides several options:

• Topics: Displays related topics to your existing document contents.
• Related Research: Offers articles and data relevant to your document.
• Web: Allows Web searches triggered from within the doc for additional information.
• Images: Performs a visual asset search related to your topic through Google Image Search.
• Drive: Lists Google Drive folders or files connected to your account that match your document's purpose.

To utilize search results:

• Web & Images: View details by clicking links; to add images to the document, click 'Insert'.
• Drive Files: Click to open in a new tab or hover for a '+' button to insert a drive link in the document.

For academic purposes:

• To cite research as a footnote, hover over the search result and click the quotation mark icon to insert a citation in APA, MLA, or Chicago format.

Note that as indicated in reference, the Explore function was scheduled to end on January 30th, 2024. Afterward, users can rely on the 'Tool Finder' for similar functionalities like conditional formatting in Sheets, pageless layout in Docs, and template selection in Slides. New content creation tools like dropdowns, emojis, meeting notes, financial chips, and others were introduced after discontinuing the original Explore feature.