Transitions are used in slideshows to add a little extra movement to the presentation. Often the slides in a slideshow will contain only words and pictures, but the addition of an animation effect through the use of transitions can help to keep your audience’s attention. But it’s also very easy to go overboard when adding […]

Sometimes you will be creating a presentation in Google Slides that is similar to another presentation, or which could be improved by adding an existing slide that you had previously created. You may be hesitant to redo the work that you already put in when you created that original slide, leaving you looking for a […]

The drag and drop nature of organizing elements on a slide in Google Slides can create a situation where a slide object is being hidden by another object. Often this can be resolved by simply moving those objects so that they aren’t overlapping, but you may have something, such as a text box, that you […]

Are you working on a presentation in Google Slides and you have it all ready to present to your audience, but a certain slide isn’t appearing when you are practicing the presentation? This is occurring because that slide is currently hidden from the presentation, and is being skipped. Fortunately this is a setting that you […]

It’s rare that you will have a picture that you want to use in a presentation that doesn’t require any kind of editing. You can perform a lot of advanced image editing in programs like Photoshop, but you can also do a lot of common edits in applications like Google Slides. But you may eventually […]

Slideshow presentations that you create for school or work often require a number of different elements. These could be tables, pictures, or even videos, all of which can be added with the tools in Google Slides. But you might find that you need to add a basic shape to your presentation, and you might be […]

The theme that you use in a presentation can dramatically alter the overall appearance of your content. Great content can appear bland on a boring theme, but the correct theme can make everything look better, and make the presentation seem more professional. It’s possible that you have already applied a theme to your presentation, or […]

The standard view in Google Slides shows the currently-selected slide at the center of the window, and it consumes the majority of your screen space. You can also see a scrollable list of slides at the left side of the window, which allows you to navigate to the slide that you want to edit. Occasionally […]

The default behavior of your slides when you are giving a Google Slides presentation is to simply switch between them. But if you have watched other presentations, or if you have used transitions in other presentation software, then you might be curious about adding a more interesting effect as you switch between slides. In Google […]

Sometimes a picture that you have, either one that you took with a camera, or one that you found somewhere else, won’t be rotated properly. This is something that you can fix in image-editing programs, but the use of an additional application cab be a little tedious, and you may be looking for an easier […]