Chromebook For Dummies

Chapter 9

Preparing Presentations

In This Chapter

Navigating Google Slides

Creating presentations

Using Presentation mode

Saving, exporting, and collaborating

Taking Google Slides offline

Presentations have come a long way in the past 30 years. You might recall family picture night used to be a slide projector with 50+ pictures loaded into a circular carousel that Mom or Dad would click through while the kids sat in misery. Through your school years, there was the overhead projector with transparencies. Now we have interactive presentations that involve text, images, audio, and video. There are several presentation suites available today, and you can probably guess the gold standard in corporate America: Microsoft PowerPoint.

PowerPoint has become so entrenched in business and education that the name is almost used interchangeably to mean “presentation.” This is not unlike how people refer to tissues as Kleenex and lip balm as ChapStick. But the cultural penetration of PowerPoint ...