I find that it's a good idea when you're introduced to new software or new platforms to take a few minutes
and familiarize yourself with the interface.
I'm going to show you how the interface works in this video.
So here is the main Google Slides interface.
You'll notice right now we've got a untitled presentation open in order to give the presentation a title.
I'm simply going to click where it says untitled presentation to rename it and type the name I want.
Let's call this first slides presentation.
Now, I never actually have to save with Google Slides.
Google saves my documents every time I make a change, so I don't have to worry about forgetting to
save and then losing some of my work.
It's one of the nice features of Google Slides.
And if we take a moment, you'll notice there are dropdown menus that are typical of any piece of software
that you might have used before.
We have our file, edit and view menus are insert format and slide menu.
The range menu tools, add ons and most importantly, help help is probably one of the more important
menus and also one of the most ignored menus.
Google's got a pretty comprehensive help system available to you to help you learn to use Google Slides
or to figure out a feature when you're stuck.
The way it works is you can simply move.
Two slides help by selecting the slides help option.
There's also more training on slides from Google, updates on Google Slides, and then information about
the keyboard shortcuts you might use.
If you're big on keyboard shortcuts, you can go to help and keyboard shortcuts and see an entire list
of the keyboard shortcuts that are available to you in the software.
Maybe it's because of my age or just how I naturally use software, but I'm actually not big on keyboard
shortcuts myself, but I've seen other people use them and you can become very, very efficient when
you memorize some important keyboard shortcuts underneath the dropdown menus.
You'll see a toolbar with a number of commonly used tools inside of Google Slides.
For example, we have our slide layout tool, our undo and redo our print tool.
Something called the format painter that will go over later.
Our Zoom tool.
Notice the drop down arrow here, I have different options for zooming in and zooming out of Google
Slides.
I could zoom in.
Notice the slide becomes bigger.
Click the dropdown arrow again and zoom out.
There are also keyboard shortcuts associated with zooming in and out.
Then we've got our select, which allows us to select individual elements simply by clicking on them.
Here I've selected the click to add title text box and then some items I can add my own text boxes.
Options for inserting an image.
Inserting shapes, inserting lines.
I have our fill color option in order to fill an element with color.
Let's use Orange, for example.
Border color to color the borders and then some options as far as border waves and border pattern.
We have our typographical options next.
These are probably familiar looking to you, we can choose a font and then choose options for your font,
such as font size, italicize bold, et cetera.
And then they're on the right side, we have some additional tools that are used frequently that we
will go over during this particular course.
On the left side, we have our slide manager from here, I can add slides to our presentation here I
control.
Click on the Mac, right click on the Windows machine and notice there's a new slide option there,
which will add a slide to my presentation and I can click from one slide to another to move back and
forth and navigate within the presentation.
In this view, on the left hand side, you'll see a small thumbnail of all the slides that are part
of the presentation.
The right side has an options panel, which right now has themes in it.
What this particular options panel displays is context sensitive.
So for example, if I selected this box?
Right, clicked and chose format options.
Now that area on the right shows the format options for that box.
In other words, it's context sensitive.
OK, so that's our whirlwind review of the Google Slides interface.
If you are completely new, I'd recommend you get in there and click around.
You can't break anything.
See what happens when you click different tools?
See what options are available to you.
A little known fact is that 80 percent of the people only use about 20 percent of the available software
features, so don't be one of those people.
Find out what's available in Google Slides before you watch the next video.