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Google Slides Basic How tos . . . Prepared by Jim Hanson (with previous help from Nick Griffin). Updated June 20, 2020. Google Slides Basic How tos . . . 1 How to insert a New Slide. 2 How To Insert Pictures. 3 How To Edit Pictures. 5 CROP PICTURES. 5 How to Insert a Video. 6 How To Make your Bullets Appear One at a Time. 10 Have text and pictures? Want to go back and forth from text to pictures?. 11 How to Theme your Google Slides. 13 How to insert a New Slide To inset a new slide, click the + on the toolbar. You can also click the drop down and choose a specific kind of new slide. How To Insert Pictures Almost every single slide you show should have a picture, if not many pictures. You are using Google Slides for a reason, to visually engage your audience. If all you are doing is popping up one text bullet after another, then you are not using Google Slides effectively. To insert a picture, click the picture icon in the slide (or you can click the Clip Art icon for good symbols). How To Edit Pictures Once you have a picture in the right place, Right Click the Picture and then you have multiple options for editing the picture. CROP PICTURES Right Click the Picture, Click Crop Image (2/3 of the way down on the list). Then grab and move the picture edges where you want to crop (remove) that part of the picture. How to Insert a Video Videos can add interest and demonstrate key things you are talking about. 1. Insert a new slide 2. Click Insert, Video, Video on My PC. You can search for a video on youtube—plus you can search for videos on your google drive (I believe there is a way to get a video from your own hard drive there too in google drive). The Video will appear like this: You can make the video bigger (or smaller) by grabbing and dragging the little blue box in the corner. You can adjust the start and end time of the video in the fields on the right side of the screen. How To Make your Bullets Appear One at a Time If you show a slide with all the bullets and pictures on screen at once, people will read and look at those while ignoring what you are saying. Instead, you need to have the bullets and pictures appear one at a time—at the moment when you say them. To make bullets appear one at a time, do this: Select the bullets you want to animate. Click Animate on the toolbar in the upper right (may need to click . . . to see “animate”) Click + Add animation On the right side of the screen, make sure “fade in” “on click” are chosen and the “by paragraph” is checked. Have text and pictures? Want to go back and forth from text to pictures? You will need to insert a textbook for text that will appear after a picture. Then animate the text, picture, text, picture (as it should appear on the screen). Your animation order will appear on the right side. Want the animation to go in a different order? Click the 6 gray circles and move up or down. How to Theme your Google Slides Give your Google Slides a great look beyond the standard black text on white background. Click Slide, Change Themes—Then Choose a Theme on the right side of the screen. Note that when you switch the theme—you may need to change the color of fonts (here the black font should be changed to white font for good contrast)—also, you may need to increase your font size.

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