Google Slides
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About
NOTE: This page is a daughter page of: Google
Google Slides is basic but effective. I honestly love a lot of Keynote features, but Google Slides makes it easy to share and collaborate. There's a few things that are tricky to do though!
Child Pages
Related/Child Pages:
- Google Slides - Creating an Add On - Demos creating a new Slides Add On which generators and Acknowledgement Slide by inserting images etc. Is not so different from the translate quickstart, but inserts new elements instead of changing text.
Tips
Add an Image Mask (in Google Slides)
This is different from cropping - everyone can do that.
- Select your image.
- Click on Help > and search for "Mask image: Oval". (note: there are several other shape options like stars etc)
- Click into the image to adjust the dimensions of the mask and image below to get the desired shape.
Hide GIFs to Speed Up Rendering
GIFs can make slides really slow. Luckily there is a solution! Hide the GIFs in the sidebar when you don't need to see them and speed everything up:
- Make a bookmark in Chrome (cmd + D)
- Press "More" to edit the contents
- Give it a name like "Hide images in side panel" - or something more imaginative
- Copy and paste this script into the URL box.
javascript:(function(){ var style = document.getElementById("toggle-filmstrip-gifs"); if (style) {style.remove(); return}; style = document.createElement("style"); var styleContent = document.createTextNode("#filmstrip svg :not(.sketchy-comment-indicator) > image { display: none !important; }"); style.id = "toggle-filmstrip-gifs"; style.appendChild(styleContent); (document.getElementsByTagName("head"))[0].appendChild(style); })()You can save it to the bookmarks bar for easy access. Simply click/tap the bookmark to hide images in the sidebar. Do the same again to make them visible.
Backgound and Image Resolution
Google Slides are usually 16:9 widescreen format (long time ago everything was 4:3)... so if you want to set a background image, try for 1920x1080 pixels.
Links
- Google Slides - official site, where you can create your own slides.
