Hi, this is Camille with Nuts and Bolts Speed Training and in this quick tutorial
you're going to learn how to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides so that you can
take advantage of some of the Google Slides features available to you.
Now why would you want to do that? Well,
Google Slides is the second most popular program for creating and delivering
presentations behind Microsoft PowerPoint.
Some of the advantages of using Google Slides are it's free to use,
it's cloud based, so there's no software installation required.
There's a history review to check previous changes made.
It's very easy to share for seamless collaboration and it works 100% the same
across Mac and PC. However,
there are some disadvantages of using Google Slides for your presentations and
those are, there are only a few basic animations and few transitions.
The templates aren't robust like in PowerPoint.
It has slightly fewer export options than PowerPoint and it's not accepted by
many corporations and organizations with strict privacy rules and firewalls.
While some people prefer one program over the other.
If you're trying to decide which program to use,
I recommend choosing whichever program your client or project team is using that
will always work the best based on what everybody else is familiar with. Now,
assuming you're ready to convert your PowerPoint presentations into the Google
Slides format,
the first thing to know is that there are two different ways to do that.
The first way to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides is by uploading and
converting your presentations into the Google Slides format.
The second way to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides is to import your
presentations directly into an existing Google Slides presentation.
I'll show you each of the two methods here in a few seconds, but before I start,
I want to first point out a few very important things that you should know about
using Google Slides. First,
if you're just looking to store and share your PowerPoint presentations using
Google Drive,
you can do that without having to actually convert to the Google Slides file
format.
Simply upload your PowerPoint presentations to the Google Drive and use it as a
file folder. Secondly, because Google Slides is an online platform,
you will need access to the internet before you can upload and import PowerPoint
files into its format. And finally,
while it's fairly easy to convert back and forth between the two programs,
it's important to keep in mind that not all of your content will properly
convert. So before you begin your conversion process,
make sure your PowerPoint presentation is 100% finished and ready to be uploaded
or imported into Google Slides. All right,
let's now take a look at the two ways to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides.
The first way to convert a PowerPoint presentation into the Google Slides format
is upload it to a Google Drive folder and then convert its file format.
Let's do it together. So if I go to my Google Drive folder here,
I'm going to make this only half of the screen and I have my PowerPoint
presentation right here.
So what I'm going to do is I can either drag it into here, right?
You can simply drag it, upload,
and it will start uploading into your Google Drive.
Or you can simply right click upload files and you can find your PowerPoint
presentation this way,
and that's how you can upload it into your Google Drive and it will take just
one minute to upload. All right,
so now that the presentation is in your Google Drive folder,
what you're going to do is right click the presentation, go to open with,
and then select Google Slides. Once you click on Google Slides,
Google Slides will then open that presentation in the Google Slides format.
The first thing you'll notice is this little error here up at the top that says
some PowerPoint features can't be displayed in Google Slides and will be dropped
if you make changes. So if you view details,
you'll notice the main thing here that was not will not display properly our
animations. However,
there are actually more things that typically do not convert over well to Google
Slides. And let me show you what those are.
If we go to the original presentation and I view it in slideshow mode,
you'll notice that for example, there are,
there's a fade transition between each of the slides.
This next slide here has a different type of transition.
We'll have to see if that converts over very well or not.
This is actually a slide with zoom,
so you'll notice these are hyperlinked slides,
so you can click and it will zoom into that particular slide.
Then each of these slides has a little hyperlink button here that returns you
back to the, to the zoom summary slide.
So if you click on one of these, it'll keep going to the next one.
Here you'll notice there is a morph ah animation morph transition excuse me. So,
uh, the, if I go back to the previous slide, these shapes, um,
basically adjust from slide to slide. We'll see if that carries over.
What else do we have here? Just some fade, some basic fade transitions
and
that should be it. Let's check. Also,
one thing to point out is there is some ink here.
There are some ink shapes that were drawn in and I believe this slide has
animations on the chart, so you'll notice the chart is animated as well.
So those are some of the features that I've put into the slide just to show you
what happens when you convert over into Google.
And let's play this presentation using Google Slides.
You'll notice if I go to the next slide that the fade transitions are working
well. However, when I try to do this transition,
you notice it's a little bit choppy. It's close, but not exactly it.
So that is something to keep in mind.
The other thing to notice is that your zoom works in the sense that the
hyperlinks work, it goes to the proper slide,
but it does not actually zoom in and out.
And also the animations here for this chart are no longer there. Also,
the chart looks a little bit different. The zoom works here,
the morph does not work here.
So you'll notice that the transition that used to be morph that took these,
these shapes and brought them into these shapes is no longer there.
And now the slide has zero transition.
Return to table of contents works. So if you click that it goes ah,
it goes well to the next slide and I'll have to go back up to find our pie chart
to see if the,
if the ink is there and you'll notice the ink is gone. So there's no ink here.
So those are some of the things to keep in mind when you are converting from
PowerPoint over to Google Slides.
You basically have basic anima transitions that work.
But anything that's a little bit more advanced transitions that are more
complicated are likely to look a little bit to either not work or to not be as
smooth. The animations are all gone,
meaning there's also no morph transition and zoom still works and hyperlinks
still work,
but it doesn't actually zoom in and out the way does in PowerPoint and there is
no ink.
So those are the things to pay attention to when you're converting from your
PowerPoint presentation over into Google Slides.
Now you may want to make some adjustments here. You may want to add,
you know here you may want to add a different transition and make any
adjustments you want, but basically you'll,
you're gonna have to deal with losing some of those features.
Now once you have maybe fixed any errors that you've noticed,
and once you're confident with this, what you can do is go to file and save,
file and save as Google Slides, clicking on save as Google Slides,
this will basically create a new version of Google Slides version of this
presentation. Because if you notice up here,
it is still a dot PPTX file format.
So it's still a PowerPoint presentation,
but it's just being a read with Google Slides.
Whereas if you save as Google Slides presentation,
you'll notice it's no longer the dot PPTX. And if you go back to your folder,
you should notice there you go.
That here you have that dot PPTX which is the S still the same PowerPoint that
we have here. And you have an actual Google Slides version of that presentation.
Now, once you have it in here, it's all set, it's ready to go.
You don't need to do anything else with it unless you want to make any more
changes and you can go ahead and delete the PowerPoint version that you have
here. You can either delete it this way, you can right click and remove.
There are any number of ways of deleting it and let's just go ahead and close
that.
So that's the first method for converting your PowerPoint presentation into a
Google Slides format. You upload it into your Google Drive folder,
you then open it with Google Slides and then you save it as a Google Slides
presentation. So that is method number one.
Now the other way to convert your PowerPoint presentation to Google Slides is to
import the slides directly into a Google Slides document.
Let's do that together. If I go into my Google Drive folder here,
you'll notice that I have the,
the Google Slides version of the presentation that I converted.
And I also have the PowerPoint version,
the dot PPTX version that I re uploaded into this folder.
So let's go ahead and close this. And the way to do this,
the second method is to import slides directly into an existing Google Slides
presentation. And you can do this in a blanket document.
So you can go to new Google Slides and create a blank presentation and it would
work the same way. But for this example,
let me show you how to do it inside of an existing Google Slides presentation.
If I double click this presentation and open it in Google Slides,
you'll notice that it already has a bunch of slides in it.
So this is an existing presentation and I want to insert my PowerPoint slides
into this Google Slides presentation.
So the way you can do that is simply to go to the file tab and go to import
slides. If you click on import slides,
you'll get a dialog box that gives you a couple of options.
You can either import slides from existing presentations in your Google Drive or
you can upload a presentation. Let me show you how both of them work.
So you'll notice that here you have the option to import from the Google Slides
version of this presentation, right?
So this would just be importing from Google Slides so Google Slide to Google
Slide. In this situation, it would be from PowerPoint that we want to upload.
So if you select this presentation and hit select,
you will then be given an option of which slides you want to import into this
existing Google Slides presentation. And once this loads,
I will show you what you can do.
Google Slides will then pull up a thumbnail of all the presentation of all the
slides in your presentation, and you can either select however many you want,
just you know, picking them here and selecting them,
making sure that there are blue. If you want to import them,
you'll notice I have six slides selected or you can select all if you want to
select all of them and then you'll just hit import slides. All right,
so that is the first way to do this.
The other way is and it's basically the same question is just to select a file
from your device. You'll select it here and hit open,
which will then upload the presentation, this way.
Now this takes a little bit of time,
so let me just cancel and go back to the first method so we can do this more
quickly. I'll select this one, select,
it will find the slides for me and I will select all of them.
And now the thing to keep in mind right before you select import slides is
whether you want to keep the original theme or not.
If you keep the original theme,
you'll notice that that Google will do its best to import the slides exactly the
way they look instead of trying to fit them into the existing theme of a
presentation. Now if you're just importing into a blank presentation,
this doesn't matter as much,
but if you're importing into an existing presentation with its own slide master
and own theme,
this will be an important feature to keep in mind whether you keep original
theme or not.
I'm going to select keep original theme because I want these slides to look as
much as they do in the original and so I'm going to select import and then
Google Slides will actually take a minute to import the slides and you'll notice
them all populated in here.
They will go directly after whichever slide you are on when you import the
slides. So in this situation you may want to drag this over, you know,
beyond the presentation or you could even just go ahead and delete all of these
slides so that you only had these exact existing layouts.
Another thing to keep in mind here is that they didn't give you the
notification,
a warning here about the elements that did not actually convert over.
But you know, if I go to a present,
you'll notice that the same issues came up as did for the first method of
converting your PowerPoint presentation to Google Slides.
The other thing that's different is that even though I said keep original theme,
you notice that the fonts are different and so things are going to look fairly
different from how they did in the original presentation,
so that is just something to keep in mind here that the fonts have been
adjusted. You'll notice the same transition issues, the same zoom issues.
Basically everything is the same errors pop up. There's no animations,
no ink and no morph, et cetera.
So the same issues happen when you import slides versus when you convert your
presentation into the Google Slides format and that's it, you're all set.
Those are the two ways to convert PowerPoint to Google Slides along with the
different options you have for each method.
Although you can quickly and easily convert between these two different formats.
I do want to make sure that you are 100% set on the way your PowerPoint
presentation is going to look before you try to convert it into Google Slides
because you will lose some of the features. And then, you know,
if you make any changes back in your original PowerPoint presentation,
you're going to have to re upload it reconvert it, et cetera, et cetera.
So to the extent possible, stick in the same program first until you convert.
And again, if you don't actually want to convert your slides,
you can always just keep your files in the PowerPoint format like this and
simply share this file from your Google Drive with someone,
and when they download it,
it will open in PowerPoint and you don't need to worry about any conversion
whatsoever. Now it's your turn. Did you find this video helpful? If so,
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