Create your first presentation in Slides (2025)

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1. Open the Slides home screen at Google Slides.
2. In the top left, under "Start a new presentation," click New . This will create and open your new presentation.

You can also create new presentations from the URL https://slides.google.com/create.

If you have existingfiles, you can import and convert them to Docs, Sheets, or Slides.

1. Go to Drive.
2. ClickNewFile Upload.
3. Choose thefile you want to import from your computer to add it to Drive.
4. In the Upload complete window, click Show file location .
5. Right-click the file and select Open withGoogle Docs/Sheets/Slides.

1. On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
2. In the top left, click New slide.

1. On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
2. At the top left, click New slide with layout.
3. Choose a slide.

1. On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
2. At the top, click Slide Change theme.
3. On the right, click the theme you want.

1. On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
2. Select a slide.
3. At the top, click Layout.
4. Choose the layout you want to use.

Move slide—Drag the slide to a different position in the presentation. To move several slides at once, Ctrl+clickmultiple slides before dragging them.

Delete slide—Right-click the slide and select Delete.

Duplicate slide—Right-click the slide in the sidebar and select Duplicate slide.

Rename your presentation—Click Untitled presentation and enter a new name.

Add images—Click InsertImage to add images from your computer, the web, Google Drive, and more. You can also move, delete, or resize images.

Add text—Click InsertText box to add new text boxes. Then, click a text box to enter text. You can move, delete, or re-size text boxes. You can also change how text fits in a box. Learn more about changing how text fits in presentations.

Add videos, shapes, charts, and more—Click Insert to add videos, shapes, charts, slide numbers, and other features to your presentation. You can also move, delete, or re-size these inserted features.

Add speaker notes—Use speaker notes to keep track of your talking points for each slide. In the presentation editor, speaker notes appear beneath the current slide. When you present your slides, your speaker notes show in a separate window.

Generate a new slide with Gemini

You can use the Gemini in Slides side panel to generate a new slide.

1. On your computer, openGoogle Slides. New slides are generated using your current theme.
2. At the top, click Ask Gemini .
3. In the side panel, select a prompt or create your own. To create a prompt with the name of your file, insert @ before the name.For example,Create a slide about how to optimally train for a marathonorCreate a slide about @Company 2023 Goals deck.
4. From the generated slide, you can:
   • Get a different version: From the menu, click Retry .
   • Add the slide to your presentation:Fromthe menu, click Insert .
   • Refine the generated slide:Fromthe menu, click Close . On the side panel, write a new prompt.
   • Send feedback:From the menu, click Good suggestion or Bad suggestion .

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