These are the best Google Slides tips and tricks 2023.
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In this video, we’re going to learn how to make better Google Slides.
Let’s go!
Google Slides Tip number 1: Use templates.
This is especially useful if you struggle with design or don’t even know where to
start - let Google do the heavy lifting for you.
From your Google Slides, rather than create a blank presentation and start from scratch,
click on the template gallery option at the top to view all available templates.
From here, you just click on the template you want to customize and a new presentation
based on that template is opened for you.
Now all that’s left for you to do is custimize it to your liking, keeping in mind you can
change every element from font to background colors.
You can duplicate your slides or reorganize them - so basically any type of customization
from a template.
And as a little bonus template tip for you, you can create and store templates for your
organization.
So, if you know you’re constantly creating the same type of presentation over and over
again, why not save that template?
Then you can simply make a copy of the template rather than recreate the same slideshow over
and over again.
Slides tip number 2: add animated GIFs to your slides.
This is such an easy way to make your slides more interesting.
And of course, there are a couple of ways to do this.
First, if you’re using a site like giphy and you want to pull in a gif from there,
the easiest way will be to simply add it to your slide as a url.
So, from the slide, head up to ‘insert’ then ‘image’, then select ‘by url’.
So, I like this gif from giphy.
So, I’ll click on share then click to copy the Gif link.
This is important - if you just try to copy the url, it won’t work.
It needs to be the direct Gif link.
Anyhow, once that’s copied, head back to google slides and paste the URL in the insert
image box.
Then just click on insert image.
You Gif is added to your slide just like that where you can re-size it and move it as you
see fit.
Now, of course, you can download a GIF to your computer or Google Drive and upload it
from there too.
To do so, you’ll obviously first save the GIF.
I do this by right clicking on the GIF and selecting save image as.
Here you can name it and organize it however you want.
Next, back in Google Slides, you’ll once again go to insert image and this time you’ll
select upload from computer.
Then, find your GIF file and add it to Google slides.
Alight, the next tip to make better google slides is to add transitions and animations
to your slides.
And, of course, there are a few ways to do this.
With the slide selected you can either right click and select transition, or you can just
click on transition at the top.
This will open up the motion options to the right of your slide.
Here at the top is where you can set the slide transition, and the speed of the transition.
You’ll also have the option to apply the transition to all slides if you want.
You’ll know your slide has a transition if it’s marked with a little transition
symbol to the left of it in your preview window.
But transitions are only part of the fun.
Any element you add to your slide can be animated.
Simply select the element and here on the right, our object animations options will
be popped up for us.
If you don’t have this appearing on the right, it’s probably because you weren’t
already in the slide transition selection.
So, no worries, you’d select your object on the slide, and click on animate at the
top.
So now, under object animations, you can add an animation, how you want the animation to
appear, as well as the speed of the animation.
Then, you can hit the play button to preview what the transition and object animations
look like.
Tip number 4 is a big one when it comes to making your Google Slides pop, and that’s
adding audio to your presentation.
To be clear, you can add audio to an individual slide or you can have audio play through your
entire presentation.
So here’s how to add audio to a slide.
Using Insert, this time you’ll click on audio.
The only way to add audio to Google Slides is to already have the audio file in your
google drive.
So keep that in mind.
But once the audio file is saved in your drive, you’ll just select it and add it to your
slide.
And it’ll be added as a little speaker icon on your slide that you can move around and
set the playback options using the formatting panel on the right.
But here’s how to play audio throughout your google slides presentation.
From those audio formatting options, which by the way, you’ll get to by clicking on
the audio element you’ve added to a slide, you’ll just click on start playing automatically
and you will click off the ‘stop on slide change’.
You can loop the audio too if it’s not long enough to cover your entire presentation.
Bonus tip!
In order to play music through your entire Google Slides presentation, ensure you’re
adding that audio file to the first slide in your presentation.
You can do this before making the formatting adjustments or after by cutting it and pasting
in on that first slide instead.
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And now we move on to my 5th and final tip to make better Google Slides: and that’s
to use browser shortcuts.
So, ya, this is a time saving tip, but it’s a good one.
Head to your browser bar and type in slides.google.com and that will take you right to your google
slides if you’re signed into your Google account.
Or you can type in slides.new and that will open up a new blank Slides presentation for
you.
This browser bar trick works in any browser and if you’re not already signed into your
Google account, you’ll just be prompted to sign in from there.
And by the way, this trick works for your suite of Google apps - so think gmail, google
photos, docs and so on.
You’re welcome.
Remember, if you want to learn even more about how to use Google Slides, including tips for
collaboration, you’ll want to check out another video I did via the link in the description
below.
But it’s really that easy to take your Google Slides to the next level.
So that’s how to make better Google Slides.
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