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  As of last month, all personal Google Accounts can   enable the new Gmail   that supports Chat and Rooms. The latter aspect, which will soon be renamed to “ Spaces ,” allows for large-scale productivity. Gmail   now supports   opening a Google Slides presentation directly to allow for multitasking with Chat.  Since launch, Gmail Rooms have only supported opening and editing Google Docs or Sheets for a side-by-side experience where you get the document next to a chat column. It allows you to write in a document or work with a spreadsheet while talking to other people in a conversation with persistent history (compared to the built-in conversations when you open Docs in a dedicated tab). Google is now in the process of rolling out side-by-side Slides support in the new Gmail. For whatever reason, the company did not show the “Open in chat” button on document previews and tapping Slides always opened a new browser window like before.  By enabling you an...