Google Slides

How to Insert a PDF in Google Slides

Google Slides doesn’t allow you to embed PDFs in your presentations, but there are a couple of workarounds to display your PDF content in your slides. You can use your PDF pages as images, or upload your PDF somewhere online …

Mahesh Makvana Jan 29th

How to Print Google Slides With Notes

Do you want to practice your presentation offline? Or maybe you need to share your presentation notes with your audience? Either way, Google Slides lets you print your presentations with your speaker notes included. We’ll sho…

Mahesh Makvana Jan 22nd

How to Hide a Slide in Google Slides

If you’d like to prevent a specific slide from appearing while you’re presenting or printing your presentation, rather than delete it you can hide that slide on Google Slides. We’ll show you how to do just that….

Mahesh Makvana Nov 26th, 2022

How to Embed a Video in Google Slides

Want to add some flair to your presentations? Google Slides allows you to embed YouTube and Google Drive videos in your slides. It also allows you to customize your video’s playback. We’ll show you how to embed your videos ri…

Mahesh Makvana Oct 16th, 2022

How to Convert Google Slides to a Video or GIF

While it’s easy to share Google Slides using a link or publishing it to the web, you may want a single non-editable file that you can share privately. By converting the slideshow to a video or GIF, your visitors can watch it …

Sandy Writtenhouse Oct 9th, 2022

Google’s Best Collaboration Tools in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Google’s suite of productivity apps includes some of the most useful collaboration tools. You can work on a document together in real-time, add and resolve comments, assign tasks, and much more in Google Docs, Sheets, and Sli…

Sandy Writtenhouse Oct 2nd, 2022

7 Google Slides Features for Eye-Catching Presentations

Assembling a professional slideshow can be intimidating if you don’t feel creative or artistic. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make an appealing and successful presentation. Google Slides provides features to help you design…

Sandy Writtenhouse Jul 25th, 2022

How to Add a YouTube Video to Google Slides

Want to spice up your Google Slides presentation by including a YouTube video in it? If so, use Slides’ built-in feature to embed your YouTube videos with customizable options. We’ll show you how to do just that….

Mahesh Makvana Jun 19th, 2022

How to Create an Interactive Story in Google Slides

Interactive stories are popular for both kids and adults these days. Whether a game or a book, you determine the journey and the outcome with the choices you make. With Google Slides, you can make your own interactive story….

Sandy Writtenhouse May 30th, 2022

How to Create a Graph in Google Slides

A chart or graph is a terrific way to show a snapshot of your data. So when you couple a chart with another visual tool like Google Slides, you can create the perfect presentation of data to your audience….

Sandy Writtenhouse May 8th, 2022

How to Embed a Google Forms Response Chart in Docs and Slides

When you use Google Forms for surveys and other types of forms, viewing responses is important. If you have a document in Google Docs or Slides where you want to share those responses, you can simply embed the response chart….

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 17th, 2022

How to Crop an Image Into a Shape in Google Slides

Not every image in your slideshow has to be a plain rectangle or square. You might want to spruce up the presentation by giving your picture some shape. You can easily crop an image into a shape in Google Slides….

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 6th, 2022

How to Add a Header or Footer in Google Slides

Headers and footers are useful tools for including information like the date, company name, or creator. This allows you to add extra details without distracting from your slideshow’s content. Here’s how to add a header or foo…

Sandy Writtenhouse Apr 5th, 2022

How to Add Animations to Google Slides

We’ve shown you how to enhance your Google Slides presentation by adding animated transitions between slides. But maybe you want to animate text, images, or objects in addition or instead. Here’s how to add animations in Goog…

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 31st, 2022

How to Import Slides From Another Presentation in Google Slides

If you create slideshows often, whether for your company, charitable organization, or classroom, why start from scratch each time? You can import slides from other Google Slides presentations and reuse them….

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 27th, 2022

How to Add and Remove Slide Numbers in Google Slides

Slide numbers in a presentation are helpful for referring to a particular slide, using a table of contents, or simply making the show more professional. We’ll show you how to add and remove slide numbers in Google Slides….

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 26th, 2022

How to AutoPlay and Loop a Google Slides Presentation

If you don’t want to worry about clicking through your slideshow, you can set up Google Slides to play your presentation automatically. Plus, you can have the slideshow loop, so it starts over at the beginning when it ends….

Sandy Writtenhouse Mar 6th, 2022

How to Create a Table of Contents in Google Slides

You might not think much about including a table of contents in a slideshow. But this can be a handy tool, especially for lengthy presentations. We’ll show you how to create a table of contents in Google Slides….

Sandy Writtenhouse Feb 27th, 2022

How to Use Guides to Position Items in Google Slides

When you’re building a presentation in Google Slides, you may want precise control of your objects and images’ position. You can easily line up your slide items by using guides. Because you can customize these guides, you can…

Sandy Writtenhouse Feb 20th, 2022

How to Create a Venn Diagram in Google Slides

A Venn diagram provides a helpful visual for relationships with commonalities. Although Google Slides doesn’t offer this exact type of illustration, it’s easy to create a Venn diagram for your presentation….

Sandy Writtenhouse Feb 15th, 2022

How to Create Flashcards on Google Slides

Google Slides is a terrific tool for creating business presentations, but it also offers great features for educational slideshows. Whether for students in class or employees in training, here’s how to make flashcards on Goog…

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 23rd, 2022

How to Draw on Google Slides

Not everything you want to show in your presentation is as easy as adding an image. Maybe you need to draw a picture of your own. You have two ways to draw on Google Slides and we’ll show you both.

Sandy Writtenhouse Jan 22nd, 2022

How to Add Videos and Customize Playback in Google Slides

Embedding a video in your slideshow can be beneficial for showing instructions, a screen recording, or even something emotional. In Google Slides, you can customize the playback options to display the video exactly as you wan…

Sandy Writtenhouse Dec 31st, 2021

How to Link to Another Slide in Google Slides

To make moving to a particular slide in your Google Slides presentation easy, you can use a hyperlink. Link text, an image, or another object to a slide and then navigate to it with a click during the slideshow….

Sandy Writtenhouse Dec 14th, 2021

How to Email a Google Doc

Sending a Google doc to someone via email is as easy as clicking a few buttons. You can use Gmail or any other email client to do it, and we’ll show you how on desktop and mobile.

Mahesh Makvana Dec 9th, 2021

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