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Questions tagged [google-slides]

Google Slides is a free presentation program part of a software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. Google Slides allows users to create and edit slides online while collaborating in real-time. Use with [google-apps-script] tag where possible.

About

Google Slides is a product from Google used to create, edit, manage and collaborate on presentations.

Launch date: March 9th, 2006

Usage

For questions about programmatic creation and management of Google Slides presentations. Do not use this tag alone.

Use together with for questions about Slides management using Google apps script.

Use together with and the tag of the language you're using (eg: ) for questions about interacting with Slides API

Don't use

For questions about general usage of Google Slides. Ask on Web Applications Stack Exchange instead.

Useful resources

  1. Advanced Slides Service reference
  2. Extending Google Slides official guide
  3. Google Groups conversations about Google Slides
  4. Issue Tracker for Google Slides
  5. Slides API v1 reference

Useful Q&As

  1. How to download Google Slides as images?
  2. How to add a new slide with new layout on Google Slides?
  3. How to automatically update charts linked to Google Sheets?
  4. How to convert elements to the same size as the first selected element?
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How to download Google Slides as images?

I am a big fan of using Google Slides as a cloud-hosted lightweight illustrator replacement (that also happens to be collaborative and free!). I wrote up a few thoughts on my process…
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How do you tell whether text fits within its bounding shape?

I am doing a merge of data from a google spreadsheet to a slides presentation using placeholder shapes and apps script, something along the lines of this example. I have the merge working well. The first issue I am having though is that the text is…
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Control Google Docs embedded viewer with JavaScript

I need to control the embedded Google Docs viewer in my site. More specifically I need to be able to enable/disable the controls for Google Slides view and to be able to start/stop the presentation with JavaScript. I was not able to find any…
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How to change the sheet that linked objects in google slides point to?

In google slides you can have linked objects which is a chart or a range in sheet that you can view in slides. If you change the chart or the range in sheets then you can click update in slides and you will be able to see the changes. The problem is…
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Embed an iFrame Tweet into Google Slides

Hello I tried to embed this HTML code into a Google Slide but I am encountering problems, does anyone know how to do so?