Google Slides

What can you do with Slides?

Create and present professional pitch decks, project presentations, training modules, and much more.

With Google Slides, you can build presentations right in your web browser—-no special software is required. Even better, multiple people can work on slides at the same time, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is automatically saved.

What you’ll need:

• Google Apps account

• 10 minutes

Import and convert old presentations to Slides

If you have existing presentations that you created in another program, you can import and convert them to Slides to collaborate with your team.

• • Go to Drive.

  • Click New > File Upload and choose a presentation from your computer. Supported files include .ppt (if newer than Microsoft® Office® 95), .pps, and .pptx.

  • Right-click the file you want to convert.

  • Select Open with and choose Google Slides.

  • Converting a presentation from another program creates a copy of your original file in Slides format. You can then edit it in your browser like any other Slides presentation.

Have a PowerPoint presentation?

If you've already stored Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations in Drive, you can also update them without converting to Slides:

Choose a theme

When you first create a presentation, you can choose a theme to give all your slides the same background and text styles for a consistent look and feel.

Add and edit content

• • Rename your presentation: Click Untitled presentation and type a new name.

  • Add text: Click Insert > Text box to add new text boxes, then click text boxes to type in them. You can also move, delete, or re-size text boxes.

  • Add images, videos, and more: Click Insert to add images, videos, shapes, slide numbers, and other features to your presentation. You can also move, delete, or re-size these inserted features.

  • Add notes: Use speaker notes to keep track of your talking points for each slide. In the presentation editor, notes appear beneath the current slide. When you present your slides, your speaker notes show in a separate window.

Customize your slides

• • To change the size of your slides, click File > Page setup.

  • Use the toolbar to customize your presentation even more. Here are the highlights:

  • Note: Text-related controls only appear on your toolbar when you’re typing in a text box. Just start typing and you’ll see these controls.