TOP 12 Google Slides Tips for Productivity!
About this video
Jeff Su shares 12 Google Slides tips across creation, collaboration, and presenting. For creation, he says to use Explore and Insert > Image > Drive to find and drag in images quickly, crop photos to a shape (e.g., circle) via the crop dropdown, set Tools > Preferences to auto-resize shapes to fit text, double-click the format paintbrush to apply formatting repeatedly, and use Edit Master to add elements like a logo or disclaimer to all slides at once. For collaboration, he covers searching Drive with ’type:presentation’ and ‘owner:me’, sharing a link with ’edit’ replaced by ‘present’ for presentation mode or ‘copy’ to force a copy, and making a clean copy of selected slides with speaker notes removed. For presenting, he shows skipping or moving slides, jumping to a specific slide by menu, number, or hyperlink, pressing L for the laser pointer, and using Presenter View’s Audience Tools for interactive Q&A.
Key takeaways
- Use Explore and Drive image insertion plus crop-to-shape to add and style photos without switching apps, per the creator.
- Set autofit preferences to resize shape to fit text so new text boxes expand automatically instead of overflowing.
- Double-click the format painter to apply the same formatting to multiple elements, then press Escape to exit.
- Edit the master slide to place recurring elements like logos and disclaimers on all affected slides at once.
- Share Slides via ‘present’ or ‘copy’ URL variants, and use Presenter View Q&A to collect audience questions during the talk.
Episode details: published April 13, 2021 · 9:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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