These essential secrets of Google Slides make the platform easier and more intiutive, allowing you to create beautiful presentations for Slideshare, internal meetings, resources, ebooks and more.

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Google
Slides: The
Secrets
you Need
to Know

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The Magic of “Shift”
The first trick of Google Slides is the “Shift”
key. It does three primary things:
1. When held, allows you to select multiple
objects to change their size, move them
together, or change their color/border.
2. When held on an existing object or line,
or held when creating a new one, resizing
becomes standardized.
3. When held on an existing object, rotation
is restricted to a perfect multiple of 15
degrees.
“SHIFT”

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Before you get rolling with aligning
your text boxes, you need to first align
the text within them.
In order to ensure that your text ends
up on the same line and matches the
box next to it, top and left align it.
Matching Text Alignment

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The visual appeal of a professional ebook
relies on perfect alignment.
Google Slides helps you get that perfect
alignment with red indicator lines which
tell you when one image is centered on
another, centered on the slide, and more.
Keep an eye out for them.
Alignment Lines

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Cropping your images is a quick and
easy shortcut which makes photo
editing a cinch in Google Slides.
Either select the “Crop” icon from the
toolbar or double click your image to
crop it.
Cropping

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A way to quickly and easily give your
presentations and ebooks a nudge above
your competitors is to create a
transparent layer over an image.
Simply click “Custom” when choosing
the color of your layer and adjust
transparency on the right side.
Whiskers hates
reading.
Transparency

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Google Slides is constantly developing its
photo-editing tools, and “Image Options”
is a great example of this.
When you have an image selected,
simply click “Image Options” from the
toolbar and experiment with recoloring,
transparency, brightness and contrast.
Image Options

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A very handy tool in Google Slides is
“Distribute”, which allows you to evenly
distribute your boxes and images across a
specified width.
This is extremely convenient when
creating graphs.
Distributing

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Often when making or matching up images,
it can be difficult to align them along the
same plane (even with the alignment lines to
help).
When in doubt, simply select all your
shapes, click “align vertically” and then align
them to the lowest, middle, or highest
placement.
Aligning Vertically

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Whiskers the Cat
To change the order of your layers, simply
right click on an image, click “order” and
bring it to the front or send it backwards.
This makes allows you to fit far more on
your slides without crowding, as well as
draw attention without unsightly arrows.
Whiskers the Cat
Ordering your Layers

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Used when creating the “Y” axis of graphs as
well as playing around with images, rotation is
done either through right clicking and hitting
“rotate” (which allows 90 degree maneuvers) or
clicking on the small circle at the top of all
images and either holding shift (for controlled
rotation) or not holding shift for free rotation.
Rotating

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Flipping an image or shape
horizontally or vertically allows you
to quickly and easily change
perspective and also re-use images
without boring your viewer.
Flipping

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Top Tip for the Pros:
It all goes a lot faster if you master the keyboard shortcuts.
Check https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1696717?hl=en for
both Mac and PC shortcuts.
The ones we use most frequently:
● Change order: Command/Ctrl + Shift + up or down arrow
● Go to first slide and last slide: Home and End (on PC)
respectively
● Link a word or image: Command/Ctrl + “K”
● Undo/Redo: Command/Ctrl + “Z” and “Y” respectively
● Copy/Paste: Command/Ctrl + “C” and “V” respectively

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