# Ray and Google Docs

> Write the doc from the thread, and read back what it says.

Source: https://heyray.io/integrations/google-docs

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Google Docs and it can do the Google Docs part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written. 4 reads run without asking. 24 actions wait for a human approval.

## What Ray reads in Google Docs

Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.

- Documents you search for, and the text in them

## What waits for your approval

Every one of these posts an approval card in the thread showing exactly what is about to happen. Nothing runs until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.

- Create a document, or build one from markdown
- Add or replace text, and rewrite a section
- Insert tables, images, headers, footers, and page breaks
- Change document or table styling
- Copy a document

## Things Ray is never handed

These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.

- Delete content, a header, a footer, or a table row

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray draft the launch note as a doc and paste the outline in."

## Connecting Google Docs

Every person on the team connects their own Google Docs account on Google Docs's own login screen, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Google Docs shows who actually asked. Passwords never pass through Ray. Disconnecting Google Docs or uninstalling Ray revokes the connection.

## More

- This page for people: https://heyray.io/integrations/google-docs
- Every integration: https://heyray.io/integrations.md
- Install Ray: https://heyray.io/install.md
- Pricing: https://heyray.io/pricing.md