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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.

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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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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.

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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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