How to summarize document's content
Overview
Zia's summarization helps you quickly understand long content by generating a concise version of the full document or a selected section. This is useful when you need a quick brief before editing, reviewing, sharing, or making decisions. You can insert the generated summary in your document.
You can use summarization in two ways:
- Document-level summarization: Summarize the entire document.
- Selection-level summarization: Summarize only highlighted content such as a section or paragraph
Prerequisites
- You have share or edit access to a shared document to generate summaries
Steps
How to summarize the entire document
- Open the required document in Writer.
- Place the cursor on a new paragraph and click the magic wand in the document editor and choose Generate summary.
- Zia will generate a summary, you can regenerate the summary if required.
- Click Insert if you wish to add the generated summary on to the document.
How to summarize selected content
- Open the required document in Writer.
- Choose the specific text or paragraph you wish to summarize and click the magic wand -> Summarize.
- Zia will generate a summary, you can regenerate the summary if required.
- Click Insert if you wish to add the generated summary on to the document.
Note
- Full-document summaries can be generated only for documents with up to 10,000 characters
FAQ
- Can I summarize only a few paragraphs from a long report?
Yes. Select the required paragraphs and use selection-level summarization.
- Can I regenerate a different summary for the same content?
Yes. You can regenerate to get a different phrasing or focus.
- Can I use summarization in collaborative documents?
Yes, if you have Share or Edit permissions, you can generate summarizes in shared documents.