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Getting Started with Google Slides
About Google Slides
Slides is a presentation "slide deck" program from Google.
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Sign-In to Google Using Your Reliant Google Account
Visit http://slides.google.com
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Visit your Reliant Google Drive, which will show your Google Slides, Google Docs (documents) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets)
Sign in using your Reliant Google Account.
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Template Files Appear in Preview Mode.
Use Open In Drive to move them to your Reliant Google Drive.
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Basics of Editing
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How to Edit your Google Slides
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How to add your own photo
To begin you will need to search for photos to customize your presentation.
Check your photo quality
Low resolutions images will appear grainy or pixelated when printed. Check to see that you are using the highest quality image available. See Photo Resolution Help.
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You’ll want to find 15-20 high-quality photos that include:
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The Google Help Center can provide some basics on how to create slides, use text boxes, add images, and more. Here are a few key highlights as it applies to your MTD Presentation Album: Starter Template.
First thing's first!
There are a couple slides that have things that are easily forgotten... Before doing anything else, go ahead and make the following changes:
Slide 3: LOCATION has # of people. Replace LOCATION with your actual location
Slide 5: For WHO WE ARE REACHING. Replace WHO WE ARE REACHING with who you are actually reaching.
Slide 7: The only hope for PEOPLE/PLACE. Replace PEOPLE/PLACE with the people you are reaching in your location.
Slide 19 LEFT SIDE: Our work with people. Replace people with who you're working with.
Slide 19 RIGHT SIDE: Missionary Name and Fund #. Replace with your info.
Slide 25: Reliant.org/first.last Replace with your URL.
How to add your own photo
Replace Image
Use Replace image when the photos already on the slide are already arranged as you would like. This is the easiest way to stick with a layout we might have provided in a template.
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Some slides are set up with fully editable parts, so text and images can be modified or completely removed. Other slides, such as the About Reliant slide, is a fixed image and is not editable.
There are a couple slides that have things that are easily forgotten... Go ahead and make these changes...
- Slide 3: LOCATION has # of people. Replace LOCATION with your actual location
- Slide 5: For WHO WE ARE REACHING. Replace WHO WE ARE REACHING with who you are actually reaching.
- Slide 7: The only hope for PEOPLE/PLACE. Replace PEOPLE/PLACE with the people you are reaching in your location.
- Slide 19- Here's How You Can Help Slide: LEFT SIDE: Our work with people. Replace people with who you're working with.
- Slide 19- Here's How You Can Help Slide: RIGHT SIDE: Missionary Name and Fund #. Replace with your info.
- Slide 25- How to Give: Reliant.org/first.last Replace with your URL.
Provided Layouts & Additional Slides
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More from Google Help: View and Create a presentation on iPad and iPhone
Converting Slide Deck to a Printed Photo Book
Use these steps to convert your finished google slide deck to a printed photo book.
Make sure that when you begin editing your google slides for the printed presentation album that you begin with a template that has the correct dimensions. If you are using a Reliant template it should already be the correct template, but for example if you were sent a template from another Reliant employee because you wanted to borrow their slides from the same location, etc. make sure that before you begin adding your own photos that it is in the correct dimensions in order to be able to print correctly. It should be 8.5 x 5.5. You can view the picture below to see that you can confirm the dimensions both by looking at the measuring grid along the edges of the slide (8.5 on top and 5.5 on the side) or going to FILE and then selecting PAGE SETUP to view the dimensions.
Sometimes you will have to adjust the dimensions of your slides for electronic presentation viewing (such as switching it to widescreen for a projector presentation at a church, etc.) This is why we suggest making a copy of your presentation slides that is specifically just for printing. We also will usually have added pages that are filler slides for printing that are not used during an electronic presentation so we highly encourage having a separate google slide document specifically just for the purpose of printing.
Check Your Work
Arranging the Pages for a Hardcover Photo Book
If you intend to export your slide deck to a hardcover photo album, you will need to pay attention to the number of pages.
- Each slide corresponds to a page in the book.
- Notice you do not need a separate slide for the inside front cover, and the inside back cover, which are already blank when printed.
- Slides work in pairs to create facing pages in the book. If you decide to add one single slide beyond what is provided in the template, it will make all the subsequent pages in the book jump a page forward, making many of the matching page pairs out of sync. Instead, replace a current slide with your new slide, or add your new slides in pairs. (This does not matter for a digital presentation, and you may choose to do one version for print and then create a different version for digital where you can be a little more free).
For more on this see Layout & Pages Help for MTD Presentation Album.
Check your photo quality
Low resolutions images will appear grainy or pixelated when printed. Check to see that you are using the highest quality image available. See Photo Resolution Help.
Key areas to edit
Slide 5: Who are we reaching
Slide 7: People/Place
Slide 17: [people] and your info on the right
Silde 23: (reliant.org/first.last)
Our style for writing the Reliant website is "Reliant.org"
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Export to PDF
- Export to PDF. Use File > Download As... > PDF Document. It will save to your computer.
This file - Open the PDF and view each page to ensure it looks right.
- Looks good? You're ready to order
- Find an "X" on a page? This can be due to an image that had a technical problem.
- Try the export again.
- Find the offending page and see if the image size can can be reduced. Very large images can break the export. Export again.
- Contact us for help
Order Your Book from Reliant "CopyCat"
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On CopyCat: Complete an Order for the MTD Presentation Album. Use steps to Add to Cart and "checkout." including adding your shipping information.
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Share with Communications@reliant.org
Click on the blue "Share" button on the top right and share with Communications@reliant.org. They will be the ones that will be able to look over your work and by sharing your slides they can leave comments directly on each page.
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