Google Slides

For all Google Slides support - click the link for access to Google Slides Help

Google Slides

Slides is Google’s answer to Microsoft PowerPoint, in your web browser or app. It is an online, collaborative presentations program that is part of Google Drive and Google Workspace for Education. As long as you are connected to the internet, all your changes are saved instantly.

You can access Slides by going to slides.google.com or you will see your Sheets files in your Drive.

Creating a new document

To create a new Sheets file, simply type slides.new into the address bar at the top of your browser page.

In Drive, simply click the +New button or the Waffle button to launch Sheets.

The Toolbar

The main toolbar along the top of a Slides window houses some key features that you probably won’t use each time but it’s extremely useful to know about. It also tells you when things are saved. As you type or make other changes, the All changes saved in Drive text will change to Saving.

File

  • Make a copy – Make a duplicate of the document you are in.

  • Import slides – Import slides from a different Slides doc or PowerPoint document

  • Download as – Download your document in other formats, such as PowerPoint, images file or PDF.

  • Email as attachment – Send your document as an email, can attach as other formats, such as Excel or PDF.

  • Version History – See all the changes you and others have made to the document or revert it to earlier documents.

View

  • Present – Begin the presentation. This button is also at the top right of the Slides screen.

  • Master – Edit the theme on the Master slide to apply that theme to all slides.

  • Grid view – View all your slides as a grid, you can move them around easily.

Insert

  • Chart – Create a graph based on the data in your spreadsheet.

  • Table – Create and add a table.

  • Diagram – Create and add in a flowchart.

  • Slide numbers – Add slide numbers to each slide.

  • New slide – Add a blank slide before the currently selected slide.

Slide

  • Duplicate slide – Duplicate the currently selected slide.

  • Skip slide – Hide this slide from the main presentation, it will still remain available for you to edit

Formatting Toolbar

Slides has a lot of the same features as PowerPoint, it just doesn’t have all the same animations or slide transitions but it does allow for much greater collaboration.

The image below shows the main editing features of Slides, there are quick buttons for adding in new text boxes, images, shapes, lines and links as well as setting borders of content too.

For all Google Slides support - click the link for access to Google Slides Help