Master Google Slides

Overview of Google Slides: Features, Tips, and Tricks

• Google Slides is a presentation software that is part of the Google Suite and is available to everyone with a personal Gmail account.

• To create a new Google Slides presentation, users can either go to their Google Drive and create a new slide or use the URL shortcut "slides.new".

• Users can select from a variety of standard themes and templates for their presentations, or they can create their own custom designs.

• Google Slides allows users to add various elements to their presentations, including text boxes, shapes, images, and charts.

• The Explore button in Google Slides is a useful tool that can automatically interpret all the content on a slide and suggest different layouts, saving users time in editing and formatting their presentations.

• Presenter View in Google Slides allows users to preview all the coming slides, view their speaker notes, and set a timer to help them stay on track during their presentations.

• Google Slides also offers audience participation tools, such as a Q&A feature, which can be accessed through Presenter View.

• Users can insert videos into their Google Slides presentations using YouTube, and they can set start and end times for the videos, as well as mute the audio.

• Google Slides allows users to keep track of different versions of their presentations through the Version History feature, which is useful for collaborating with multiple people on the same presentation.

• While Google Slides' animation options are limited, users can still add basic animations to their presentations, such as fade-ins and slide-ins.

• Google Slides' strength lies in its simplicity and focus on getting work done, making it a suitable presentation software for students and professionals alike.

• Finished Google Slides presentations can be displayed on various devices, including computers and mobile devices.Google Slides Tips and Tricks

• Google Slides allows for automatic progression of slides in a presentation.

• To set up automatic progression, go to "File" and then "Publish to web" to get a special URL.

• The URL will be the presentation that automatically progresses to the next slide according to the set time.

• Slides can be copied from one slideshow to another while retaining a link, which means any changes made to the original slide will automatically reflect in the copied slide.

• Linked slides can be identified by an icon on the left-hand side and can be managed through the "Tools" menu.

• Slides can be linked to each other by highlighting a word or name, right-clicking, selecting "Link," and choosing the relevant slide to link to.

• This linking feature is useful for choose your own adventure-style games and interactive presentations.

• Google Slides also allows for charts to stay linked to spreadsheets.

• The presentation can be unpublished to take it offline.

• Google Slides offers a number of options to tweak the automatic progression of slides.

• The presentation URL can be shared with others to access the presentation.

• Users can leave comments on specific slides in the presentation.