Google Presentations
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Title slide
Title slide
Just like Office? Not exactly, but the familiar “Click to enter text” text boxes are ready and waiting.
Available themes
Available themes
Not too many themes available, but they are clear, load quickly, and look sharp on the Web.
My personal favorite
My personal favorite
I’m a tree-hugger at heart. I had to go green here with the “Grass Theme”.
New slide dialog
New slide dialog
Title slides, blanks, standard text/title, two columns, but no charts yet.
Second slide
Second slide
Slides can be manipulated in the left frame and edited in the right.
File menu
File menu
The file menu has quite a few options, including importing PowerPoint files.
Text boxes
Text boxes
Text boxes can be dragged around onscreen, resized, and otherwise manipulated in standard PowerPoint fashion. Right-clicking also provides a context-sensitive menu, but no copy and paste for the elements yet.
Publishing
Publishing
Slide shows can be published to the web so that you can conduct an online slide show or just allow others to view asynchronously.
Sharing
Sharing
Here’s how it looks shared; others can join in and view simultaneously.
Presentation mode
Presentation mode
While this is very similar to the shared slide view, it is controlled from within Google Docs instead of from the URL to which you publish. It also has a nearly full-screen appearance.
