Skilfully conquer Google SLIDES

It’s now possible to create videos of a presentation in Slides which you can then easily share with a link with others. How to record a video presentation Open your Slides document and you will see in the top right-hand corner the recording (Rec) icon. Click on that to record a new video. Click “Record… Continue reading How to create video presentations in Slides

In this post, we’re going to look at the pen tool in Google Slides, which allows us to annotate them while we are presenting them. Annotate Google Slides From Google Slides, open the slideshow. Hover over the bottom left corner and a little menu will appear. Click on the 3-dot menu and select “Turn on… Continue reading How to annotate Google Slides

Following on from part 1, let’s take a look at my favourite improvements to Slides, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Classroom, and Gmail. Slides Presentable video recordings This allows for videos to be recorded of Slides content and then shared. This saves having to use 3rd party apps. The rollout for this has been delayed and should be… Continue reading Summary of Google Workspace 2023 improvements (Part 2)

In this post, we’re going to look at several useful Google URL tricks which allow us to quickly do a whole range of things, like quickly create documents, provide links to copy master templates, and from a link automatically download a PDF version of a document, and many more. We’re going to look at….. Useful… Continue reading Learn useful Google URL tricks to make your online easier

In this post, we’re going to see how to split Google Slides automatically into separate files with Apps Script. Problem and solution The reason I wrote this script was to resolve a problem at work, where we have an admin system that produces a document with the certificates for the students that are going to… Continue reading How to split Google Slides automatically

The built-in themes provide a great springboard to make professional looking slides but what happens if you want them to look different? Or what happens if you want to make your own style of slides and you only want to set it all up once? Well, with editing the Master you can create your own… Continue reading Google Slides – Master slides and themes

If you want to make some dramatic looking text, Word art can be a better option than using a normal text box. So, what’s the difference between the two? With Word art, the text is treated like an image allowing to change the size without being limited to font sizes. It also allows you to… Continue reading Google Slides – Word art & Gradient fill

Here we’ll look at a couple of simple little tools which can help make your text in your Slides that much better. They are line spacing and indent. Changing the line spacing In this example, I’ve got a slide with some point on it, which as there are only 4 points, I want to spread… Continue reading Google Slides – Line spacing & Text indenting

Adding tables to your slides is a common thing to do with slides, especially when presenting some data. If you have used tables in Google Docs, then you will see that in Slides it is very similar. Here we’ll look at: Inserting a table To insert a table go to the “Table” menu, select “Insert… Continue reading Google Slides – Tables

When you insert objects (images, shapes, text boxes) onto a slide, each one is inserted on a layer on top of the other one. So, the first object you insert is at the bottom (let’s say layer 1) and then the next one on top of that (layer 2) and the last one will be… Continue reading Google Slides – Layers, arrange & groups

In Google Slides, there’s a wide range of line types, connectors, and drawing options to help you organize and illustrate ideas visually. In this post, we’ll explore line types like arrows, elbow connectors, and curved connectors, as well as editing features to customize line colours, weights, and endpoints. We’ll also look at drawing tools like… Continue reading Google Slides – Lines, connectors, scribble

In this post, we’re going to look at inserting and editing shapes in Slides. There are a whole range of shapes you can insert and edit. This is one of the tools that makes Slides more than just a ‘presentation’ package. For example, a comic, a flyer, a process flow diagram, step-by-step guide, adventure story,… Continue reading Google Slides – Inserting & editing shapes