An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and cursor and a permissions system regulates what users can do.

Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including "Explore," offering and "tasks to other users.

[12] In June 2012, Google acquired Quickoffice, a freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices.

In June 2014, Google rolled out a dedicated homepage for Slides that contained only files created using the Drive suite.

[20] Google Slides serves as a collaborative tool for cooperative editing of presentations in real time.

The revision history allows users to see the additions made to a document, with each author distinguished by color.

Files can be exported to a user's local computer in a variety of formats, including HTML, .jpg, and PDF.

Launched in September 2016, "Explore" provides additional functionality to the Google Drive suite through machine learning.

The "Explore" features in the Drive suite follow the launch of a more basic research tool originally introduced in 2012.

The web clipboard can also be used for copying and pasting content between different computers, although the Google Docs Offline extension would need to be installed.