Google Slides Tutorial: How to Use Google Slides

Access Google Slides by two methods: search for Google Slides and open the first link, or use the Google Apps nine dots to open Slides, with an active Google account.

Navigate the Google Slides interface—from dashboard and menus to templates gallery—where your presentations auto-save to Google Drive and you can access them offline, with templates for certificates, proposals, and more.

Create your Google Slides presentation using a blank template, auto-save to Drive, and add slides while organizing them into folders with basic tools like text boxes, images, and transitions.

Learn to build a YouTube gallery in Google Slides by inserting YouTube videos, dragging to position, and presenting in slideshow view, with practical follow-along steps.

Learn how to add, delete, hide, and duplicate slides in Google Slides; use shortcuts and menus to manage slide order, skip slides during presentation, and test variations.

Explore how to work with slide layouts by applying layouts per theme, changing layouts with right-click, undoing and redoing changes, and managing layouts on existing slides.

Move slides efficiently in Google Slides by dragging to new positions, using the grid view to see all slides, selecting multiple slides with shift, and copying or pasting via right-click.

Learn how to change themes in Google Slides, choose from built-in options or Slides Carnival templates, and apply templates for Google Slides, Canva, and PowerPoint.

Learn to customize Google Slides backgrounds by changing background colors, applying gradients and transparency, adding custom colors via HTML codes, and applying these changes across themes and all slides.

Learn how to add and edit text in Google Slides by creating and resizing text boxes, typing content, moving elements, and using format options to customize text.

Master text box formats in Google Slides by adjusting size, rotation, height, angle, and position to create precise, engaging designs with effects like drop shadow, reflection, and links.

Learn to insert images in google slides using multiple methods, including upload from computer, drag-and-drop, drive, photos, or camera, with a brief note on copyright considerations when web searching.

Learn to edit images in Google Slides: delete, move, crop, resize with handles, rotate, flip, adjust transparency, brightness, and contrast, plus shadows, reflections, ordering, and replacement of images.

Upload your audio to Google Drive, insert it into Google Slides from Google Drive, and place it on the slide to play automatically during the presentation.

Insert shapes from the insert menu, resize with shift, move, rotate, duplicate, and style borders, fill, line effects, shadows, and reflections in Google Slides.

Learn to insert tables in Google Slides, choose rows and columns, create and format a table from scratch, apply colors, borders, and text styles, and resize and reposition tables.

Insert and customize charts in Google Slides, linking them to Google Sheets, edit data, adjust pie charts and colors, then update to sync changes.

Insert diagrams in Google Slides using the diagram option, choose hierarchy with multiple levels, customize colors and text, arrange relationships and lines to illustrate nested businesses for compelling presentations.

Use the theme builder to customize the master slide, changing fonts and colors so they apply to all slides, and add a logo that appears throughout the presentation.

Create and reuse custom layouts in Google Slides using the theme builder or master builder; edit text and shapes, adjust colors and layering, then apply the layout to new slides.