If you want to create a new Google Slide, there's several different
ways to do it, but the easiest way and what we'll be doing right now, is just to
go to drive.google.com and then left click on New. Go down to Google Slides
and you can create a blank presentation or you can start from a template. We'll left
click on From a template. This is going to do a lot of the work for us. There
are not going to be very many situations where starting from a template doesn't
just really help you out.
For this, we're going to use a template called Your big idea. Now we're going
to go through the steps to stylize and prepare this slide for your specific
presentation and what the settings are that you need to change. We're going to
look at these four options. First, you could put an image in the background and
this dialog is just looking at the current slide. But, if you wanted to add
it to all of them, you would just left click Add to theme. We'll take a quick
look at what that would do if we changed it to red and added it to the theme. See
all of the backgrounds just changed to red, but if I change it to light blue and
I don't click add the theme, it just changes the current slide. So we'll click
done. We'll get rid of those two changes because they hideous and we're back
to where we started. We're going to skip over to theme. We'll come back to layout
in a minute. If you left click on theme, this is a collection of colors,
fonts, backgrounds, and layouts that you apply to the slides. Once you do
that, they kind of look better together because they all have a similar theme
and they'll do smart things. For example, this background is kind of dark,
so it makes the corresponding text light. If it's a light background, like down
here, it'll make the text dark. Since we started from a template, it already
has a theme applied, but if I wanted to change it after I left clicked on theme
on the right hand side, would be these different options. We'll just click
one to show you what happens. It will change all of the slides and they all
kind of correspond to this new format. We'll do the undo button just to go back
to where we were because we picked this because we liked the way it looked.
This is also where you could import a corporate theme if you had one. If you
go in the lower right hand corner and click on import theme, you could grab it
here. Maybe it's in your Google Drive, or you can
upload it as well. Okay, we're going to go one back to the left and the layout is a
control for each specific slide. If I left click this, these are designed for
different types of content. The one that you're looking at right now is a
title slide. You can see that that's selected because it has a darker
rectangle around the box. After you choose a theme, then you can choose these
different layouts for each particular slide. If you were building this from
scratch and say you had a picture and you wanted a little caption, you might
choose one column of text, right? So you put your text in this column, there's a
little header box, and then you have plenty of room for an image off to the
side. If I left click on the slide number 6 here and I go up to layout, this one
has something called section title and description and it has a similar thing
text to the left and then a box to the right where you can put some content.
Once you have your theme chosen and your different layouts set. you can do
transitions in between the slides. If you just left-click on the slide that you
want to transition, let's put it on number two, now clicked on
transition. Come over here and let's say we want it to be a fade. there's some
controls that you can apply here. We'll just make it medium and you can see
that it's added this icon on the second slide. That's showing that there's a
transition after this slide. Let's click present now, which we'll talk about
more later, but we're just going to do it to see this transition.
There's the fade. So this is the first slide. Go to the right and it fades out
to the second one but after that there is no transition. So if I continue to
move through the presentation, the slides just switch with no transition. We'll go
back to the first one, and there's the fade. Hit escape to get out of the
presentation mode and just look these are the different types of transitions
available. You can play around with them if you want. You don't need them on there
so I'm going to take this one off just by left clicking undo.
Now we're going to go over how to add some content to your slides. In
order to do that, let's just insert a blank slide. We'll go to Insert new
slide. The easiest way to do it is to first start with the layout. Let's do
a title and two columns just so we have a fair amount to play with here and
let's change this text. This will be about You need to speak clearly.
These controls that are up here are - you're going to be familiar with them because
they're going to be similar to the word processor that you probably use or the
spreadsheet - so if we select this font, it's already made it a font that
fits the theme and it also fits the text box that you have here. But, if you
want to style it, you could make it bigger, you could change the font family,
and all sorts of other different effects here that you probably know so we're not
going to go over too many of them. If you come down to add the text, if you add a
couple of different lines, oftentimes you want to put bullet points in a
presentation and those are just put in by left-clicking the bulleted list
option. And there you are. Let's say we want to add an image to the right. This
says Click to add text, so this is a text box. Let's just select the entire box by
left clicking on the blue rectangle around it, and hit delete. Now we'll
just go to the Insert button, or you can use some menu options where you see that
little icon of an image. There's different choices here for how to grab
the image. You could upload it from a file that you have on your computer. You
could search for it on the web, or you may have it already in your Google Drive
or your photos and you could even just insert the web address for where the
image is located and it will pull it in and you can use your camera. So now we're
just going to use Google Drive
and we'll just pick this image that I have that I know is mine so I can use
it in a video. There, you know 'cuz that has a lot to do with the
presentation, right? We'll say you're presenting about a spreadsheet. How's
that sound? And after you have this on here, you can choose some different
options. You may want to put a border around it, so when you still have it
selected, which means there's still a blue rectangle around it, you could go up
to the menu, left click on Format options, and here you can control some things
about the picture. We wanted to do, let's say a drop shadow. If you left
click on the arrow, it'll drop down and show you more controls, but the box has
been checked here. Let's just click out of it now and see what the drop
shadow looks like. If you look closely, you can see a drop shadow. Let's go back
and make it more intense. I'm just pull these to the right see if
it looks better. Left click off of it. Turn transparent
down. That's the problem. It was transparent, now it's not. You can see
the drop shadow. So that's just an example of one of these many things that
you can do to customize your image. We'll left-click to come off of that now.
You could add a video. If you go to Insert, there's a video option here and
if you left click on it, you could add it straight from YouTube, if you just search
for it here, or if you have the URL for it, you can paste it in. If you have it
saved, you could put it in Google Drive, it'll place the video in the slide and
then you can play it as if it's an embedded video on a website. Now you
can also add an animation. There's two different ways to think about what an
animation means. You could just insert an animated GIF, which is a picture file
that just contains its own animation. Or you could take an existing picture.
We'll left-click on this sparklines example picture that we have and you
could left-click on the Insert menu and use animation and it will take this flat
picture. You'll be able to apply a lot of pre-selected animation types to
it. If you click Play now, to see an example, this slide, when it's live,
had the picture fade in its like that.
On the Insert menu, there should also be Insert audio. This is 2019 and there was a
release saying that that capability was going to be added. Maybe by the time you
see this video that will be there, but right now you have to use a workaround
of inserting a video with the audio in it. But, when the Insert audio function is
here, it should look at your Google Drive and you could input a music file or an
audio file that way. One of the big advantages of Google Docs, Slides, and
Sheets is that you can collaborate really easily with other people that
you're working with. If you come up into the upper right hand corner and you
left-click on the Share button, this opens up whole host of options for you
to share this document with other people, let them view it, and or let them edit it
and comment with each other. We're going to left click on Advanced so you
can see the different options. Right now, I have it set to Private and only I can
access it. I'm going to change that, and I can just make this Public on the web so
anyone can find it. I can just make that link viewable for anyone but not have it
be searchable. These options only exist because I'm using a G Suite
account. I can share it with someone else at
my organization, or anyone else at my organization. So if someone else is a
user in my G Suite account, this can show up in their Google Drive as well. If I
click this option, that's available if you're using G Suite. If you were
interested in G Suite, I have a link down below in the description.
You can get a 20% discount if you contact me with the contact information
down there and that is an affiliate link. So, if you use that link, you will help me
to support my channel which I would really appreciate, that be awesome. If
you're not working in G Suite, another way to share it, which is what I'm going
to do right now, is say Link sharing is off. I just want to share it with
specific people. If I click Save, we'll get back to this screen that you were at
before. We don't need the Advanced Options to just share it with one person
so I'm going to share it with another Google account that I have. It says, "Are
you sure, this person is not in your organization?" And I'll say Yes. So, I just
received an email in my other account that says I've been invited to edit this
Google Slide so I'm going to click on Open in Slides. This on the left is a
different Google account. This person can be next door, they can be on the other
side of the ocean, but they can make edits if you use that setting. So let's
go back to the right and click Share again. Get this centered on the screen. It
is shared with me, and if I drop this down, I set it so that I can edit it. You
can also just share it with someone, you don't want them to change it, but you do
want them to be able to leave comments or just let them view it. To give us the
most flexibility to show this, we're going to leave it on Can edit. If I come
back over to the left, I could just start changing things but I showed you how to
change things before so we won't get too into that. But, another option that you
have is you think that the guy with the account on the right should change it, so
what you can do is you can insert a comment. I'm gonna come down the insert
comment, I'm going to say "Please change this." I'm going to leave it as a comment.
Then, I come in to my original account and you can already see this outline on
the thumbnail showing that something's here. It shows you the icon of who did it.
That's a good-looking guy right there. Let's say I left click on this. It's
going to bring up the commenting window. We could just have a back-and-forth chat
here, but I want to see what the actual comment was. I'm going to make this
window bigger again. Go up to the slide where the comment is, and this person
said "Please change this." I'm going to come back and I'm going to. I just left
clicked on it. I'll say Okay. They want me, let's say they want me to erase
the G, and hit enter. Because this is this is casual now. We're makin'
presentations that stick and click reply. So you can see, the back-and-forth here. I
come back in as the original guy who asked them to change it. It's been
resolved, so I'm going to left click on resolved and the comment goes away. So you
could have a string of 20 comments, and you can have the history on each of them
and keep track of them as they get resolved. When you're ready to
distribute this Slide, of course you can just left click on the Present button.
If you have a projector, you can do the standard stand there and talk about it.
Let me go back. When you have two different screens, you're going to see
these controls that come up, and you'll be able to go through the slides. You can
set timing of the slides if you want and just click play. You can also have
some notes to yourself that you would see on one screen and not the other.
You could use a supercool pointer up on the screen kind of like a laser pointer.
You could also publish this file to the web if you wanted to put it maybe
on your WordPress site. You can just have a link with the slides auto timed.
If you click Publish, that made this content visible to anyone by publishing
on the web. Here's your link to show someone the page if I click that link.
Let's just bring up an incognito window. It's just a fresh browser window.
If you shared that, people would see this full screen presentation and you can
click through it or you can just press play like we talked about and the slides
will be timed and it will go through on its own. Another option that you have is
just embed. You can control the size of it, but this will just put it inside a
window in an existing website. Click small, you grab this code and you paste
it on the HTML in the backend of your website and it will show on the page. If
you're ready to do a few more advanced things, like embedding a spreadsheet
table into your presentation, check out this video in the upper right hand
corner. If you like this video, I have a bunch of others like it, you could
subscribe to my channel and you'll see more of them. Thanks!