Google’s 28 October 2026 announcement adds cell-level web citations to Fill with Gemini in Sheets on the web. This can make a generated table easier to audit, but a source link still needs to support the particular value in that row.
Google lists Business Standard/Plus, Enterprise Standard/Plus, Google AI Pro/Ultra and qualifying education or AI add-ons. Check your account’s entitlement and whether Gemini in Sheets is enabled. The web rollout began on 20 October and may take up to 15 days, so the 28 October announcement does not mean every eligible account already shows the controls.
Audit one row before a larger request
Use a small permitted table with clear entity names and one requested field. Open a cell’s source and check the entity, the property and any date or unit. A page about a company is not automatically evidence for its current office count.
For a fictional comparison of three organizations, record a verified value, an unsupported value and an unknown separately. Do not turn an absent citation into a zero. Preserve the original entity column so sorting or copying does not detach the evidence from its subject.
Keep the rollout limits honest
The announcement dates the gradual rollout from 20 October and lists eligible plans. Its expanded request capacity is not a promise of unlimited daily use or universal account access. Scale only after the small audit succeeds, and inspect changed rows again. The provider’s speed study is not a measured result for your own sheet.