1 Section 1 is your menu bar where you will find your slide tools, comment button, and sharing button. The

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1 Google Slides Cheat Sheet This is what you will see when you log into Slides. 1 Slides consist of 4 sections. Knowing how each section works will save time and increase productivity Section 1 is your menu bar where you will find your slide tools, comment button, and sharing button. The menu bar has many hidden features that I will explore in detail below. 2 Section 2 is your left side bar. This allows you to switch from slide to slide. 3 Section 3 is your main page. This shows what your current slide looks like and where you will make changes to each slide. 4 Section 4 is your right side bar. This bar will change depending on whether you are looking at themes, transitions, or research.

2 Section 1: Menu Bar This button will return you to all of your Slide files. Give your Slide a title here. Do this first when you create a new Slide. This will allow you to move your Slide to a certain folder in your Drive. File Edit View Insert Slide Format Arrange Tools Table Help Menu Tools New doc, slide, or sheet, make a copy, import, download, page and print settings Basic edit functions, cut, copy, paste Presentation, animations, zoom settings Text, image, link, video, word art, slide numbers, comments New slide, duplicate slide, slide options Fonts, lines, spacing Objects on the slide Spelling, research, define Table functions, if inserting/using a table Search for help topics Slide Tools Allows you to add a new slide. Use the drop down to choose the format. Prints your slides Undo Redo the last action Zoom commands Insert text box, image, shapes, or lines Add a comment Opens the background, layout, theme, or transition side bar The Research command under tools and the Video command under Insert are two very useful commands

3 Section 1: Menu Bar Continued The background button allows you to change the background of one or more slides. Comments allow you to enter comments on shared Slides. Present allows you to present your Slide show full screen. You can start at the beginning or from a particular slide. The layout button allows you to change the layout of your current slide Share allows you to share your slide show with anyone you wish. You can also get a shareable link and set whether the person can view or edit the slide show. This is the tool to use for studentto-student collaboration and teacher-tostudent collaboration. I always have students share their projects with me first.

4 Section 1: Menu Bar Continued The insert video command will open a YouTube box. You can now search YouTube for a video, select a video and place it in your Try to keep your video less than 5 minutes. To add a video, first preview the video by clicking on one. Pay attention to the run time that each video shows. Add the video to your presentation by clicking Select.

5 Section 2: Left Side Bar Use this bar to navigate your slide show while working. Clicking a slide will take you to that slide in your Right clicking a slide will open up menu options for that slide such as cut, copy, paste, formatting, and moving the slide. Clicking a slide and pressing delete on the keyboard will delete the slide from your

6 Section 3: Main View This is your main view on the page Clicking on text will allow you to edit the text and move or delete the text boxes. Clicking on an image will allow you to move the image, delete the image, or resize the image. You will also be able to move videos and other objects by clicking the object.

7 Section 4: Right Side Bar Your right sidebar will change depending on what option you have opened. Your options are theme, transition, and research. Research is located under the Tools menu. Themes allow you to change the look of your You can choose a theme simply by clicking the one that appeals to you. You can change your theme at any point. Transitions allow you to apply a transition to your You can transition each slide differently, or you can apply one transition to the entire You can also add animations to objects in the slide show by clicking on the object you want to animate. Research allows you to open a Google Search page within your Slide. You can search the web for images, content, videos, and more. You can add images by simply dragging and dropping them into your