A collection of blog posts about how to use Google Slides, either with a consumer Gmail account or with a business Google Workspace account.
Adding a GIF file to one or more slides can spruce up your Google Slides presentation. There are three ways to add a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file to Google Slides. Add a GIF on … Read more →
There are times you may want to record a voiceover on top of a Google Slides presentation. Your Slides voiceover may be for internal sharing within your organization. Or, your recording may be for sharing … Read more →
Google Slides is presentation software that’s part of Google Workspace and consumer Gmail. Any presentation can be enhanced by adding audio. In this post, we’ll explain how to insert audio files, including background music clips, … Read more →
There are several reasons you may want to change your Google Slides from the default horizontal 16:9 aspect ratio into a vertical format. You want to use Google Slides to design a PDF brochure You’d … Read more →
There are two types of videos that can be embedded in Google Slides and then played back within a slide in Slideshow mode. The first type is a YouTube video. The second is a video … Read more →
A better way than emailing slide decks around. Google Slides allows multiple people to collaborate in real-time on an online presentation.
Google Workspace users can present real time data in Google Slides.
Until Google introduced this functionality, charts had to either be pasted as images into Google Slides or they had to be created using shapes. When the underlying data changed, a more up-to-date chart image had to be pasted into the slide or the shapes had to be modified. This could be very time consuming.
Google has provided two ways to embed data-driven charts right within individual slides.
Google Slides can easily be embedded in any website by using the code provided in the File > Publish to the web… menu.
By default, there’s a set of controls at the bottom of an embedded Slides presentation that diminishes the website animation effect. The controls provide multiple options including downloading the Slides as a PDF or PPTX file.
Updated: August 14, 2019 Google Slides allows you to collaboratively create business presentations with others in your organization. With Google’s continuous delivery of new features and functionality, there are always new ways to make your … Read more →
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