Slides

What you can do with Slides

Create and present professional presentations with Google Slides. You can create presentations right in your web browser. You and your team can collaborate on slides at the same time, so you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is automatically saved.

Add and organize slides

Add a slide with the same layout as the current slide

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
In the top left, click New slide .

Add a slide with a different layout

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
At the top left, click New slide with layout .
Choose a slide.

Note: If you don't see the New slide with layout option, click Templates .

Add a slide with your organization's branding

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
In the top left, click Templates .
At right, click the template you want to use.

Add content to slides

Update your presentation

Choose a theme and layout

When you first create a presentation, you can choose a theme for your slides. A theme is a preset group of colors, fonts, background, and layouts. Your presentation's layout is the way your text and images are arranged on a slide.

Change your presentation's theme

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
At the top, click Slide Change theme.
On the right, click the theme you want.

Change the layout of your presentation

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
Select a slide.
At the top, click Layout.
Choose the layout you want to use

Add pictures, text, speaker notes, and more

Rename your presentation—Click Untitled presentation and enter a new name.

Add images—Click InsertImage to add images from your computer, the web, Google Drive, and more. You can also move, delete, or resize images.

Add text—Click InsertText box to add new text boxes. Then, click a text box to enter text. You can move, delete, or re-size text boxes. You can also change how text fits in a box. Learn more about changing how text fits in presentations.

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

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

Import slides, copy your presentation, and more

Import slides—Add slides from another presentation to your current slide deck.

Make a copy—Create a duplicate of your presentation. This is a great way to create templates.

Download as—Download your presentation in other formats such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF.

Email as attachment—Email a copy of your presentation.

Version history—See all the changes you and others have made to the presentation, or revert to earlier versions.

Publish to the web—Publish a copy of your presentation as a webpage, or embed your presentation in a website.

Analyze presentation data with charts

If your Slides presentation has a lot of data, help your audience easily visualize it by turning your information into charts. Just create a chart in Sheets and add it to your presentation. Your chart is linked to your Sheets data, so any changes you make to your data automatically update in your presentation

Add a chart from Google Sheets to a presentation

On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Google Slides.
Click Insert Chart From Sheets.
Click the spreadsheet with the chart you want to add, then click Select.
Click the chart you want to add.
- If you don't want the chart linked to the spreadsheet, uncheck "Link to spreadsheet."
Click Import.

Edit chart data from a slide

On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Google Slides.
Click a chart or table to select it.
In the top right corner of the chart or table, click Link options Open source.
You can now change the original file.

Update your chart to the latest data

If you make a change in your spreadsheet, you might want to make sure your chart gets updated in your presentation

On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Google Slides.
In the top right corner of the chart, table, or slide click Update.

Learn more at the Google Docs Editors Help Center

Add an image to a presentation

On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Slides.
Click Insert Image.
Choose where to get your image from.
- Upload from computer: Insert an image saved on your device.
- Search the web: Search the web for an image.
- GIFs and stickers: Insert a GIF or a sticker to your slide.
- Drive: Use an image saved to your Google Drive.
- Photos: Use an image from your Google Photos library.
- By URL: Insert a link to your image or insert a .gif.
Click Insert or Open.

Add transitions and animations

Transitions make moving from one slide to the next a little more interesting, by fading or sliding into the next slide. Animations make shapes, images, or text boxes dynamic—they can fade in or out, appear and disappear, or fly in and out with the click of a button.

Animate text or images

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
Click the text or image you want to animate.
Click Insert Animation.

Add slide transitions

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
On the left, click the slide you want to transition to.
Click Slide Change transition.

Change animations and transitions

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
Click View Animations.
Click the animation you want to change.
To change the speed of the animation, drag the slider.
To animate lists one line at a time, check the box next to "By paragraph."

Add flowcharts and diagrams

Flowcharts and diagrams make difficult concepts easy to understand. Create them right in your browser with Google Drawings, no software needed.

Create a flowchart, diagram, or other type of drawing

On your computer, open a document.
In the top left, click Insert Drawing From Drive.
Click the drawing you want to insert.
Click Select.

Add your drawing to a presentation

On your computer, open a document.
In the top left, click Insert Drawing From Drive.
Click the drawing you want to insert.
Click Select.

The inserted drawing is linked to the original drawing.

To update the drawing—Click the drawing. In the top right, click Update.
To unlink the drawing—Click the drawing. In the top right, click Unlink .

Add a diagram to your presentation

Important: You can insert a diagram in any language that uses the Latin alphabet.

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
Go to the slide where you want to add the diagram.
At the top, click Insert Diagram.
Choose your style, number of levels, and template.
The diagram will get added to the slide. You can change it how you want.

Learn more at the Google Docs Editors Help Center

View a presentation with speaker notes

Presentations can be long, detailed, and complex. Make your talking points easier to recall by using speaker notes in Slides. If you have a lot of ground to cover, use the timer feature to make sure you keep your presentation on track.

Open a presentation in Google Slides.
In the top right corner, next to Slideshow , click the Down arrow .
Click Presenter view.
Click Speaker notes.

Use built-in laser pointer

Have a lot of detailed information in your presentation? Focus your audience’s attention on specific parts of your slides by using your mouse as a laser pointer. Help your audience know where to look and when.

When you present, you can choose more options from the toolbar at the bottom of the presentation window:

Select slides to present from a list
Open "Presenter" view
Turn on laser pointer

Skip slides you don't want to show

You can skip slides you don't want to show to others when you're presenting. People you've shared the slide with will still be able to see the slide.

On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
At the left, right-click the slide or slides you want to skip.
Click Skip Slide.
Optional: To show a skipped slide, click Skip Slide again.

Turn On/Off Q&A

Instead of giving a one-sided talk, get your audience involved by conducting a Q&A session right from Slides. Audience members can submit questions in real time and vote on them during the presentation.

Start your Q&A and get questions from viewers

Open a Google Slides presentation.
At the top, next to Slideshow , click the Down arrow .
Click Presenter View.
In the new window, click Audience tools.
- To start a new session, click Start new.
- To resume a recent session, click Continue recent.
- To end Q&A, click the on/off switch in the Q&A window.
  - Tip: Even if you don't turn off Q&A, the Q&A view closes shortly after you end your Google Slide presentation.

When you start the session, a short URL for the presentation shows up at the top of the slides as you're presenting. Viewers can enter the URL in their browser to submit a question. You'll see questions in the Presenter view window.

Display a question to viewers

Presenters can display audience questions in a presentation:

Under "Audience Tools," find a question to display.
Click Present.
- To change the question, find a different question and click Present.
- To hide the question, click Hide.

Share your presentation

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