3-2 Google Slides

Create Google Slides: To create a new presentation, go to your Google Drive, click the red New button, and select Slides from the drop-down menu. As soon as you name the document or start typing, Google Slides will automatically save your work every few seconds. At the top of the document, you'll see text that indicates when your document was last saved.You can also start a new slide while in an existing Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, or Drawing. Just click the File menu, click on New and choose Slide.

Template Gallery:

If you want to quickly create a presentation, you can pick one of the templates in the gallery under the Google Slides homepage. Each template has standard text that you can replace with your own, and preset design styles that you can use for your presentation.

Explore with Google SlidesCrafting the perfect pitch deck or sharing your team’s story is hard enough without having to make it look great, too. Explore in Slides makes design polishing simple. As you work, Explore dynamically generates design suggestions, based on the content of your slide. Simply pick a recommendation and apply it with a single click — no cropping, resizing or reformatting required.

We’ve seen that people save over 30% of the time they would have spent on formatting when they use Explore. So even if design isn’t your style, rest assured you’ll have a beautiful presentation to be proud of. Instantly.

Editing a Presentation:

When you create a new Google Presentation, you are presented with the document interface that provides options for editing.

You will find that many of the same editing features that you are used to in Microsoft PowerPoint are also available in Google Presentation. In the activity below, you'll find all the features you need to create a great document.