Getting started

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  1. Editor overview The Slides editor brings your content, design tools, and presentation settings into one workspace. Here's where to find the main controls. 1. Presentation controls The narrow si...
  2. Adding a new slide To add a horizontal slide, select the plus button on the right side of the editor. To add a vertical slide, use the matching button along the bottom edge. Either button opens th...
  3. Arranging slides Arrange mode gives you a bird's eye view of your presentation so you can quickly reorder, group, hide, or remove slides. Open it with the Arrange slides button in the editor sid...
  4. Working with blocks Everything you add to a slide is a content block. A block is a distinct piece of content that you can move and configure independently. Different kinds of blocks hold different ...
  5. Block layout Move, resize, align, and select content blocks to build a precise slide layout. Select a block to reveal its resize handles and layout controls. Move and resize blocks Drag a se...
  6. Zooming and panning Zoom in when you need to make precise edits, or zoom out to see more of the slide and the surrounding canvas. The editor supports zoom levels from 50% to 600%. Zoom the editor P...
  7. Slide templates When you add a new slide, Slides opens the template picker so you can start from a ready made layout instead of a blank slide. Templates are grouped into sections in the picker'...
  8. Revision history Revision history lets you preview and return to an earlier version of your deck, so you can experiment freely and recover from mistakes. Slides saves a new revision each time yo...
  9. Locking content blocks Lock finished content so it stays put while you work on the rest of a slide. A locked block can't be: Moved Resized Selected with drag selection Selected with keyboard shortcuts...
  10. Grouping content blocks Group content blocks to move, resize, and animate them together. Grouping keeps related content, such as an icon and its caption, in place as you rearrange a slide. If you are n...
  11. Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts can speed up common editing and presenting actions. The available shortcuts depend on whether you are working in the editor or viewing a presentation. Shortcu...
  12. Copying slides To copy a slide from one deck to another, select the add slide button and open My decks in the slide template picker. From there, you can browse your other decks and insert any ...
  13. Device preview Device preview lets you check how your presentation fits different screens without leaving the editor. Preview a phone or tablet in portrait or landscape, or try a square or wid...
  14. Layers The Layers panel gives you an overview of every content block on the current slide, in the order they are stacked. Use it to select overlapping content, change the stacking orde...