Melinda Holt: Slides is a really cool Google tool. Do you have to have a Google account in order to use it? Absolutely. You do. What if you don't have one? Well, then you need to create one. OK? [laughs] You need to create one. They're free. And then you have full rights to all of the Google tools and you can use them and you can show them to your students and you can share with-- and you can do all kinds of things.

And here's the thing. You can actually show things to your students and they don't have to have a Google account. You can have them preview something, which means they can look at it but they don't have to have a Google account. Now, do I think they should have a Google account? Absolutely.

Here we go. This is a link. Now, this is an https://, OK? So that just makes it secure socket. And most websites are going that way now, and bit.ly actually just did about three weeks ago. They became secure instead of unsecure, which was with the HTTP.

So, bit.ly. B-I-T-dot-L-Y slides, the number 2, the letter v. OK? This is a preview. So this will allow you to view the slides deck off to the side, if you wish. And as I make changes on the slides deck, you'll see it happen. This is alive. This is a dynamic handout. And right now I know that nobody's in here, because I don't see any little icons showing up with anonymous acrobat or something like that. So if you share something in preview mode-- and yes, I will be showing you how to do that, but later. Once you share something in preview mode, you don't have to worry about updating your copies all the time, because it's a dynamic-- it's a live deck. So as soon as you come into the deck, as soon as you see it, as soon as you view it, you're going to see all of the changes that I make to it. All right?

And here we go. Next slide. This is me. My name is Melinda Holt. I'm a PS II with OTAN in technology integration. I am a Google-certified educator, trainer. I've been a trainer for, I think, five years or something like that. That's why I get the little T. I'm also a certified Google admin, and I'm a COABE Applied Digital Skills trainer. Woohoo. So those are my certifications. Whoop-dee-doo.

And here we go with the handout. You're going to see a bunch of words. [laughs] It's a Table of Contents. Here's another thing you can do with the slides deck. You can make it an e-book. This is an e-book. So each one of these links-- each one of these lines of text right here is a link. So I'm going to go ahead and hit Present. And you don't have to be in Presentation mode. But if you're in the Preview mode, if you're a student and you're in the Preview mode and you've done section 1, 2, and 3 and now you want to get on with section 4, you can actually select the section that you want to go to. And this will go to Customizing Page Setup.

OK. Now on this hand out the buttons up at the top that tell you what slide you're on, they go back to the ToC. You don't have to be in Presentation mode for this to work. I can go right back to adding a slide. And because I'm the owner, I see where it says Slide 18, Add Slide, and I can click that link.

So if you did go onto the slides deck, if you opened it out or opened it up, this is probably you. It's not going to say Will Nitterson, because what I did was I shared it in preview mode to anybody. So Google's not going to keep your name. Right? I don't know who this is. This could be Will. This could be Marjorie. This could be Anthony. This could be Susan. This could be anybody. OK? So it's about the fourth slide in. OK.

Now, I get a different view. This is the thing. You're in Preview mode. You don't get to see the view that I'm in right now. You don't get to see the slides on the left-hand side. You don't get to see the file edit view up at the top. You don't get any the menu items. You can't copy this. I've taken that away. All right? So the ToC-- the Table of Contents-- is on slide five. And then after that all of the other slides will link back to the ToC. OK?

So the ToC is right here. If you're on the Preview you can click on any one of those. And, yes, if you already know about how to create a presentation, you could absolutely go to manipulating objects or Changing Page Setup. You don't have to follow along with me. If you're more advanced than what I'm doing right now, then you could do this. And I will be showing you how to create an e-book. It's really simple to do, and most people miss the one step that you need.

Right here is the second page of the Table of Contents. And then-- what are slides? Some people don't know what slides are, so I have to go over that. All right. So for the purpose of this handout, Slides is an app. It's an application. It's a tool. Slides is an app within G Suite so you can create presentations, flashcards, timelines, and a bunch of other activities. You can use it in any browser, but it works best with chrome. It can be installed on any smart device. You can put it on a phone, you can put it on a tablet, and you can put it on a laptop or a desktop, if you wish.

The word slides, presentation, and deck are interchangeable when you're using Google. So those three words-- if I say Slides or Deck or Presentation, I'm using the same-- it's the same word for everything.

Some things that you can do with Slides. Presentations, like this one. An e-book, like this one. You could do branching. You can actually create a slide-- five slides, let's say-- and have number two go to number five, and have number one go to number four, depending on the answer that the student gives. If we have time I will show you that. It is in the handout though.

Here are some terms to know. You need to know that a deck is a file created within the Slides app. And an object is anything on a slide. Anything on a slide. Anything on a slide. That includes pictures. That includes text. That includes buttons. Anything on a slide is an object. And objects can be manipulated. OK? Here's some guidelines to use, just some quick little tips when you're using the formatting tool or when you're really getting into Slides.

Now, I've gone through this pretty fast. You can always come back to it. So you can open up Slides in a lot of different ways. If you're already signed into Google, the quickest and easiest way-- if you get on your computer and you go, oh, I want to create that Slides deck, blah blah blah blah, because you've got this really cool idea, all you have to do is type in Chrome-- you have to have Chrome open. You're going to type slides.new. Slides.new. Or you can type slides.google.com. People already know this way right here, where they type drive.google.com, then you select the New button and create a new blank deck, a blank presentation through Slides home-- Slides at google.com-- you can find a template. So I'm going to show you these three ways. I'm going to hit a new tab on my Chrome. I'm hitting the plus sign way at the top.

I am going to type in the omnibox, or the Address bar. I'm going to type drive.google.com. I could have also used the waffle and selected the Drive icon.

So here I am in the drive. Underneath the Drive button, you're going to select that, and then select Google Slides. That's one way to create.

Another way to create is to go back up to the omnibox-- or the Address bar, if you will. I'm going to use the same one that I had Drive open, slides.google.com. On this page, you're not going to see the Drive button. But all of the slides that you create are in Drive.

When you go to slides.google.com, it's just showing you the slides. It's not showing you your docs. It's not showing you your forms. It's not showing you your sheets. It's just showing you your slides.

So if you don't want to see the drive, you don't have to. You can go to slides.google.com. By the same token, you can go to sheets.google.com, or drive.google.com, or forms.google.com. Each one of those is an app. And because each one of the Google tools is an app, it has its own place on the web-- its own bubble, let's say.

So this is the slides.google.com area. Here are all of the slides that I've created. Up at the top of this area, you're going to see a really cool thing called templates. Templates is part of the handout. When you hit the Template Gallery up at the top, you'll see a bunch of different templates going through.

To get back to where all of my presentations are, I have to hit the arrow up at the top of the screen where it says Template Gallery. So if you have more than one account-- and I do. I have a G Suites EDU account with scoe.net. I have my own personal account as a trainer. And I have a personal account as just a personal, no-nothing self.

I sign into all of them. And how do I figure out, OK, this is my-- I have a different picture for my different cells so I know who the heck I am. So right here, when I see that green background behind me, I know that I'm in my personal trainer account. So when I click it, I can see-- there I am, scoetech@gmail.com.

Here are the other accounts that I have accessed. And if I've signed into all of them, I can select that other entity. So here I am, Sacramento County. And here are the different slides that I've created with Sacramento County Office of Education.

If I want to go back to my public account, then I would select that. So you just have to make sure you look at that picture. If you have a different picture for each of your different selves, Bev, you're going to know who you are. And that's how you switch between the two.

How do you get the Template Gallery? You go to slides.google.com. Slides.google.com-- you type that in the Address bar, or the omnibar, whatever you want. Boom, it will take you right here.

On this page, you're going to see all of the slides that you've created. And if you've only got a few, that's fine. If you don't have any, that's OK, too.

Up at the top on the right-hand side, you're going to see the word Template Gallery, and you're going to select that. And then it just drops down, and you see all of the templates that you have access to. As soon as you click one, it's yours.

So don't click it unless you want it, because you're going, oh, what's this look like? Oh, what's that look like? Oh, what's this one over here? Every time you click on any of these, you're going to get a recipe book, or a lesson plan, or a photo album in your list of presentations. And they're yours.

Now, you can delete them after you do that. I made that mistake, because I went in, and I looked at all the templates. And then, when I went back to my slides area-- I'm going to click this arrow where it says Template Gallery. When I went back here, I had all of those presentations in my list. I was like, ah.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of slides.google.com? This is just a quick and easy way of getting to your slides, of seeing just your slides. Because now I don't have to go through, oh, man, this is a doc, this is a form. No, that's-- oh, I wanted my slides.

And yes, you could do a search on your Google Drive. But what better way to see just your slides? I don't have to go through folders. I don't have to do anything like that. It's right here for me.

Can you have two accounts open at the same time? Absolutely. As long as your club, your school, allows it, Jacqueline.

So I am the administrator-- semi-administrator now-- for our EDU. So I get to go back and forth between my accounts, because I've allowed it. So if your school only wants you'd be signed in at one at a time, you might try opening up a new Chrome window and see if you can sign in, with your personal self, on that other Chrome window. If that's allowed, boom, you got it.

I've already gone over to get to the Template Gallery. That's through slides.google.com. So we just want to Drive and went to slides.google.com.

Another way to create a Slides deck without even opening either one of these is to do slides.new. You can do this for a doc, a sheet, or a form. Slides.new-- when you type that in and hit Enter, it creates a new Slides deck for you.

As soon as you create a new Slides deck, the first thing you should do is title it. Google doesn't care what you title your untitled presentation. You can create 50 untitled presentations. Google doesn't care, because the web address way up the top-- that is the name of your file. You can title it anything you want.

But this, up here in the omnibar, that's what the real name-- or the real title, I'm going to say-- of the file is. So the first thing you should do so that you know what this is is to title it so you can find it later. So I'm going to type OTAN Demo. It automagically opens up to a blank template.

So if you went to slides.new, good for you. If you used one of the templates when you're in the Temple Gallery, that's OK, too. But you're going to see something a little different, might not match up with what I'm saying. Just saying-- you might want to consider opening up the slides.new.

On the right-hand side, whenever you create a new Slides deck, the way I just told you, is you're going to get a themes area on the far right-hand side. And as you scroll down, you can click through the themes to get an idea of what they look like-- what that first slide is going to look like, anyway. If you want to see what the rest of the slides in that theme look like-- everyone, look at your screen right now, because you're going to have to focus a little bit. [laughs]

So on the far left-hand side of your screen, there's a little Slides Home button. Don't click that. Wait for me to tell you when to click, OK? There's a Slides Home button. Underneath the Slides Home button, there is a plus sign. Don't click that, either.

Next to the plus sign is a drop-down arrow. That is what I want you to click. So let me show you. Let me see if I can zoom in here a little bit. So right here, this is the little guy you want to click on. And I'm not sure this is coming out for you, because I've never done this in a zoom before.

So it's the little icon next to the plus sign on the left-hand side. So I'm going to click that. There are all the different slides for this theme. This one's a little green with a little image on it. This one is brown. Boom, this is the one I want.

For those of you that are advanced, for those of you that understand master slides, I'm going to show you something. For the rest of you, just chill. This is an advanced topic that I'm going to try and show the advanced folks. So if you understand master slide and Master Slide deck, this is what you're going to want to do if you want to change your Slides deck.

You're going to go to Slide, Edit Master. You can also go to View, Master. Either one will take you to the same area. So it's Slide, Edit Master or View, Master. I'm going to go to View, Master. Here are all the master slides.

Now, because we were on that first slide, this is the one that came up. If you go to the very top, you're going to see the master. So if you want your font not to be whatever it was, but maybe you want it to be Verdana, once you change that on your master slide, it will change for every other slide-- will be Verdana.

If you want to change one of the layouts in the master, you can go in and say, OK, yeah, this is pretty cool, but I don't want to this color. Or oh, this is a pretty nice graphic, but I don't want them to be that color. I want them to be this color. So you can change that. And when you change it on the master, it changes it on all of the slides that you add to your deck, that have this template, that have this layout.

All right, so I'm going to go back to my Slides deck by using the left pane, the little number one here-- boom. And then I'm going to add a slide. Underneath the Slides icon, the plus sign-- it added a blank. That was nice.

I don't want a blank. [laughs] Next to the plus sign, I want to choose the one that I just changed. See? There's that little yellow, instead of the brownish, because I changed it. And it will remain that way.

So I can create five, six slides with this template. If I want the template to change, I can go back into my Master Slides deck. I can maybe even make create a copy of it. And then, instead of the yellow drips going down, I could have blue drips, or green drips, whatever I want.

Are slides and themes the same? I have a slide and want to use a template after I create it. You can create your own templates. You would have to save it, though, in your Slides app area or in your drive.

You can't add templates to the Google templates on your public account. And you cannot add templates to your club or your EDU area without having it approved by your network administrator. So Jacqueline, I think that answered your question.

So if I want to-- I've just changed this theme, right? I've changed the template on it, because what I did is I made this yellow drip instead of the brownish fading drips. So if I want to save this as a template, I would save it to Home.

Now, we're going to create an E-book from this. I'm going to go to the first slide. And I'm going to type E-book. And I'm going to delete this one right here.

So an E-book-- a book has a table of contents, right? So we're going to create a table of contents. We're going to type the word-- what are we going to type the word on. Well, first we have to know what our slide's about.

What is this E-book going to be about? Maybe it's about creating shapes. So on creating shapes, we're going to type, create square. And then, under that, we're going to create circle. And then, under that, we're going to create triangle.

This is just to give you an idea of how a TOC works. Now, these words-- you're going to want to make them smaller, because you're going to want-- or the font size smaller. You're going to want to be able to move it over to the right.

Maybe have two columns. You can do it any way you want. It's up to you. You're the creator of it. So we have a create square, create circle, create triangle.

These have nowhere to go yet, because I haven't created the Create Square slide. And I haven't created the Create Circle slide. All I've created is the TOC, what I'm calling the TOC. So I have to add three new slides. I have to add three new slides for each one of these pages that I want this E-book to go to.

All right, here we go. Next to the plus sign, I'm going to go to the arrow. And I'm going to have a title and two columns. Boom, there we go. So that's my first slide.

I'm only going to create one right now. And I want the title of the slide to match the TOC. And the TOC was create square. Over here, I would have instructions on how to create square.

And then, over here, instead of the text box-- you can do this a bunch of different ways. Again, you're the creator. You get to decide.

My model, for me-- what works for me is to have the instructions on the left and then a picture on the right. So if I'm going to put a picture on the right, I don't need this text box. So I'm going to click it. And I'm going to delete it.

When you have instructions, you probably want to have them-- you got step one, step two, step three. And you also want to make sure they're in order, because your students will let you know if you've done something wrong, [laughs] right? All right, so I'm going to make this a little bit bigger. See? I get to manipulate all these objects. These are all objects right here.

Something else-- because this is an object, because I'm thinking of it as an object-- not text, it's an object-- when I select it, I see lines around it. That's a square. And objects can be colorized. Objects can be colorized.

So up at the top of your screen, underneath the menu, underneath the words, you're going to see little icons. The little icons are very important, especially this one right here, Fill Color. When you select a object, and you select this paint bucket, you can make the object any color you want.

Now, it would be a good idea to follow your theme. All of your theme colors-- Google populates it for you. All of your theme colors are down below all the bright colors above. You've got a lot of choices. But it's really a good idea to stay in touch with your theme. Too many colors-- it leads the eye away, and it makes for a bad presentation.

Something else-- because you've selected an object, all objects have format options. This is really, really important when we get to the point of creating a drawing. And drawing is really powerful, because you can do so much with your own drawings.

But every object that you create that's on your slide has a format option. On the top of your Menu bar, you're going to see the word Format Options. I'm hovering my mouse over it right now, going back and forth. You'll even see Format Options. That's a button.

When you click it, you're going to get a box of all kinds of magic. Most people don't know this magic exists. It's yours for free. So each one of these areas-- the size, rotation, position, text fitting, drop shadow, reflection-- you can do this on this object. Different objects have different options.

Different objects have different options. So on this object, I can do all of these things. On another object, when I open up Format Options, I might get different things that I can do, or I may get less.

So right here, what I usually do if I want to set things apart a little bit or make it look a little 3D-ish is I'll put a drop shadow. I don't know if you can see that, but it does it automagically. When I select the object, I get my tools back. When I deselect the object, the tools go away. The bar stays.

I'm going to select the object again. There's a dropdown arrow next to Drop Shadow. So I'm going to select that. And you might want to watch this, because it's hard to explain.

There are little squares-- ah there it is-- in line. And I know you can't see this. And I can't make it to where you can see it, because I can hardly see the darn thing myself. [laughs] So there are sliders on here. You can barely see the little line.

And as soon as I get the cross arrows here, I know that I'm on the line with the transparency. Or I know I'm on the line with the distance. Now I'm going to blow this out. I'm going to show you what the distance does. Do you see how far that went out on my object? It blew it out.

Now, the angle is also really cool when you're doing shadows. I can drag this around, and it goes all the way around. I just got to figure out which angle I want it at. Normally, I would have it at about 45. There we go. It goes off to the side.

Now, I don't know if you can see this. But as I'm dragging it to the right and to the left, the Angle bar, as I'm dragging it, I want it-- oh, man, it's 47. Oh, it's 58. Oh. Ah.

If I want it to be 45 exactly-- everyone, look at your keyboard. And you're going to see your the arrow keys down at-- mine is on a number keypad. So I have arrow keys that go to the right, to the left, up and down.

I know that my little crosshair is on the-- it's selected the Angle bar. so now, I can use those arrows to go exactly one degree to the right or one degree to left, however I'm selecting. And by doing that, you have more control.

It is for artistic purposes, yes, Susan. But how does this help with teaching and learning? Think flash cards. And when we get into the draw part of it, you'll understand a little bit. It'll make sense. [laughs] I need to show you this, though, in order to get to that part. We need to do part one before we get to part two.

This distance is too far out there. There we go. The blur radius-- that just softens it a little bit. So you can-- maybe a project with your students. You could have them put in their picture, and then put a frame around it, and then soften it up a little bit.

All right, so we've gotten this. We've gotten that. Now, this is create a square. We have two more slides to create. So were going to be really, really simple, because we want the slides to be exactly the same. We want create square, create circle, create triangle.

Format Options is available to everybody, Jacquelyn. If you don't see it, it's because it's being covered up. So first of all, you need to select an object. You either need to select a text box, or an icon, or something on the page. So select it first, and then it's in line with all the other tools up at the very top.

Your screen might be really small. So you might have to hit the little three dots-- the More button-- because, right now, my Animate button is being hidden. So just look way over to the far right, and you'll see three dots.

All right, now I'm going to create two more slides really quick and easily. I'm going to select the slide in the left-hand pane. I'm going to right click. And I'm going to duplicate. I'm going to right click. And I'm going to duplicate.

Now I have three slides that are all the same. They all say, create square. So I just go to the second one in line with my table of contents that I haven't created yet. And we want create circle. We just change the text. The slides are exactly the same.

And for those of you that know PowerPoint and have used Slides deck, you already know this. Understood. But we got some beginners in here.

All right, now we've got three slides, all three the same. We're going to put a square on the first one. You have a bunch of shapes up at the top of your screen. There's Undo, Redo, the Print button, a Zoom button, a little arrow. That little arrow is very important. Always remember where your little arrow is.

We can add a text box. We can add images. And then, right next to that, you're going to see the Shape tool. It's a circle square. Select it. Then you get more shapes.

You get shapes. You get arrows. You get call-outs. You get equations. Oh, my gosh, there's so much stuff here. So we want the square.

Right here, I see a square. I'm going to click it. I get the crosshairs. And as I click, hold, and drag down my screen, there we have a square. And I can move it anywhere I want.

This is an object. If I want to, I can select it, find my format options. And now I can do all kinds of stuff with it. I can do a reflection on it.

I could have the reflection-- it would be a really far distance from it. All kinds of different things you can do with format options. I don't really want any of this stuff. I just wanted to show it to you. So there's a square.

Am I going to write down the steps it took to do the square? No. That's up to you. [laughs] Do it on your slides.

I'm going to go to my circle slide. Where it says Create Circle, I'm going to go back to my Shape tool. I'm going to hover on shapes. And in here, I'm going to find-- somewhere-- a circle. There it is. There's also a circle down here, but that's a flow chart.

So as you hover over the shapes in this Shapes area, they're going to give you names for them if you hover over them. Well, now it's not doing it. But these are all flow charts way down at the bottom. So I'm going to choose this circle. Here we go. I got a circle.

Now, this circle is green like the square. I don't want it to be green. I want it to be a different color. I want it to be-- I really want it to be really cool. I don't even want it to be in the theme.

I'm going to select the object. I'm going to select my circle. I'm going to go to my paint bucket. Within your paint bucket, you have a solid option and a gradient option. A lot of people don't know this exists, either.

I'm selecting Gradient. And then I'm going to select one of these-- boom. That one matches my theme. Look how cool that is. Hmm, nice.

All of your objects, when you create them, usually have a line around them or a border. They don't have to. Or they could have a different color. So I've selected this circle object. I'm going to go to the pencil next to the paint bucket. I'm going to click it.

And notice I can make it transparent, which just means it doesn't exist, it's not there. Or I can make it purple. Now, you really can't see it. It pops out to me a little bit, but I'm sitting right here. So I'm going to select that object. And I'm going to leave it purple.

But instead of one pixel, I'm going to make it 8. So next to your Pencil tool, you have a Line-Thickener tool-- [laughs] a line thickener. Boom. So now we can make it as thick, or as thin, or a different color, anything you want. And we've also made this gradient. Gradient is a really cool tool.

By the way, within the paint bucket-- for when you get really, really into creating your own shapes and everything-- in the Solid tab, you're going to see a Custom button. And in the Gradient tab, you're going to see a Custom option. What that allows you to do is create your own gradient.

So I could change this into anything that I wanted. Boom. That's a really ugly looking thing right there, but you get the idea. I'm going to hit undo so it goes back.

You can create your own gradients, and that also helps you when you're going to be creating images. And we're getting to that. We are getting to that. I promise you.

All right, right here, now we need a triangle. So I'm going to go back to my Shape tool. I'm going to go to shapes. I'm going to find a triangle. Now, which triangle do I want-- equilateral, or right angle? I'm going to choose the right angle. So we got that.

I know how to create a different color now. I like the gradient option. I'm going to choose a different gradient. I know now that I can change a border color. So I'm going to change the border colors just so it stands out a lot. Boom, there we go.

Now I've got three slides with different shapes on them. I'm going to go back to my TOC. I'm going to go back to that second slide, Table Of Contents. Now, you're going to want to watch this if you want to know how to create an E-book.

I'm going to select the words Create Square. This-- these two words together-- are going to be one link. These two words together are going to be one link. If I wanted to, I could just select one word. Then only that word would be a link.

I'm going to select both of them in a line, though, because this is easier for our students. They don't have to figure out which word is going to be the link. So I selected that, those two words.

Now I'm going to go up to the Link tool to insert the link. Or you can use your keyboard and hit Control-K. Or if you're on a Mac, Command-K. I use this button right here. It's the same thing. Click it.

Now, everyone, take your hands off your mouses and watch. This is where people get screwed up, because they start scrolling down, and they're looking for the link. You're not going to find it. What you need to do is, right underneath where it says Paste a Link or Search, you're going to see a little option called Slides in This Presentation. Slides in This Presentation-- you need to select that arrow next two Slides in This Presentation.

Never, ever, ever select Next Slide, Previous Slide, First Slide, or Last Slide. Never do that. Always scroll down-- you might have to use your mouse to scroll down a little bit-- and select the slide number that has the slide title on it.

Why wouldn't you choose Next Slide? Because-- well, let me explain that later. First, go ahead and-- we're creating a square.

Let's see. We're going to connect to Create square. So I want slide 3, and then I apply. You'll notice the text color changes, and it becomes underlined. That tells you it's a link.

Do I have to keep it underlined? No. Can I change the color? Yes. Will it still stay a link? Yes. All right, next link that I want to create is to create a circle, which is going to go to slide 4 for me.

This presentation is being recorded, and it will be posted on the OTAN website. I go up to the Link tool. I'm going to select the Slides in This Presentation arrow. I'm going to scroll down until I see the slide that I want.

Here it is-- Create Circle, slide 4, boom. And rinse and repeat. I'm going to select Create triangle. I'm going to go up to the Create Link tool. I'm going to hit the arrow next two Slides in This Presentation. I'm going to scroll down until I see the slide that I want-- slide 5, Create Triangle, boom.

When you get up to 60 slides in a deck, [sighs] [laughs] it's a lot of work. Just warning you ahead of time. Now, why didn't I select, when I was creating the link for Create Square-- it's the next page, so why wouldn't I have selected Next Page? Because I might decide to add another slide in between the table of contents and the create square.

If I select Next Slide, this will always go to the next slide. But right now, it's going to slide 3, create square. And I can see that on my screen when I just click my mouse in it. Let's see what happens when I add a new slide in between this table of contents and the Create a Square page.

Here's my table of contents. I'm going to click in the words Create Square. Now it's going to slide 4. If I had told it to go to the next slide, it would have gone to this blank slide right here. So make sure that, when you're creating your link-- I'm just going to type Demo here so I can show it to you again.

When you're creating your link, you're going to select the word. You're going to go to the Link tool. Select Slides in this Presentation. And just ignore the first four options. You're going to scroll down until you see the slide that you want. And then you're going to select it. There we go.

Does anybody have any questions on how to create an E-book? Because we just did one. Yeah, it's only got a couple slides. But we just created an E-book. If you have any questions, put that in the Q&A.

If I'm presenting a slide show in Zoom with my class, can students edit the slide and answer some of the responses? Barbara, you might want to think really closely about doing that first if you're going to be opening up a Slides deck and sharing it with your students. I've just created one. And I could create a short link for it. And I could have all of you come in here.

And there are, I think-- yeah, there's 110 people in here. So what would happen if I had all 110 of you typing on the Slides deck? It sounds really hard, doesn't it? [laughs] It's just as hard with 20 people. It's just as hard. So I would think closely about doing that. Maybe assign your students a slide.

OK, Barbara, you're number five. Kelly, you're number four. Jacqueline, you're number seven. Leah, you're number 10. So you all know your numbers. And then you go to that slide's number. And then you do the voodoo that you want to do.

As we move the slides around, will the E-book link update? Yes, absolutely, only if you select the exact slide. [laughs] That's the key. You have to select the slide that it's going to be going to.

How do you link the slide back to the TOC? Leah, I'm so glad you asked. So here's the thing. When I'm on, let's say the square, I need to have a button here so that my students can get back to the table of contents. So I get to choose any shape I want. So I'm going to go back to the Shape tool.

Oh, and by the way, it doesn't have to be a shape. It could just be a word. It could just be a text box because, remember, text box is an object. It's a shape. I like using shapes, though, because I can type in shapes.

So I'm going to just select. Boom, I selected one. I don't even know what I selected. Here we go. There's a shape. Oh, it's the one with golden handles. OK.

So now you can type in a shape. You just double click in the shape. And then I'm just going to type TOC, return.

How did I add a slide between slides? I'll show you that next. So here's my TOC. Yeah, it's a really big button. I wouldn't make that big button.

But what you do is you select the object, not the text. Select the object itself. So you see all the handles around it? Go to the Link tool. Go to Slides in This Presentation.

Scroll down until you see what you think should be the table of contents. I never did title that slide. But it's slide 2 demo, Create Square, right here. Select it, and then apply. Now let's test it out.

I'm going to hit present. I'm going to select the TOC Return. And there it goes. Now, do I have to do that for every slide? Absolutely. Is there an easy way to do it? Oh, yeah.

So what you're going to do is you're going to select this TOC Return. We're going to copy. All I did was hit Control-C. If you want to do it the hard way, select the object, then go to Edit, Copy. By the way, there it is-- Control-C.

So I copy this. I'm going to go to the next slide. And then I'm going to hit Control-V. And it pastes in exactly the same position with the link.

I go to the next slide, Control-V. It pastes exactly in the same place as it did with the first slide. So there we go. There's a TOC. And that's basically how you do a Home button, too, Kelly.

Oh, god. I forgot the question I was going to answer next. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. How do you, just in the middle of a Slide deck-- how do you put a slide in the middle?

What you do is you go to left side, the left-hand pane. You click in the middle. And you'll see a little line appear. And that means that, if you insert a slide, it will go there. Here it is. So we just inserted.

How do you delete a slide once you've inserted it? There's a couple of ways to do it. The easiest way for me is to right click. And I right click, because it makes me think. And then you would delete.

Do I really want to delete it? It makes me think. So you could also select a slide, and you'll see it get highlighted. And you hit your Backspace key. If you make a mistake, [gasps] Control-Z, or use your Undo button.

How about page numbers? Page numbers are usually contained on the master slide. So I just happened to choose a theme that didn't have page numbers. I could actually do my own manually-- 1, 2, 3, 4, like that. But then, when you add slides or put slides in between, they don't automagically change.

So what you need to do is you go to Slide, Edit Master. Or you go to View, Master. And then you insert a page number on the master slide. And then all the other slides will follow suit. I believe it's just the hashtag, hashtag to put in a number.

Speaker 1: Melinda?

Melinda Holt: Cool. Yes?

Speaker 1: Sorry.

Melinda Holt: Mm-hmm?

Speaker 1: We have a request from a couple of folks. Could you show us again, one more time, how you at that TOC button again?

Melinda Holt: Sure. I'm going to delete this one, and I'll show it to you again. So I'm going to just delete all of my TOC returns. I'm actually going to go up here now. And I'm going to-- I'm doing something that I should've done to begin with. I should have titled this slide.

So I'm going to title this slide Table of Contents. And all I did was select the text that was already there. Here we go. And I'm going to put it up at the top. So now, all things being what they are, this might work.

OK, so here we go. We're going to create a button to anywhere we want. Insert slide numbers-- yes, Leah, thank you. And that's on the master. So here we go.

I'm going to-- or is it on here now? Oh, look at that. OK, we just learned something new today. They have added this-- Slide Numbers. This used to be only available in the-- skip title slide-- in the master deck. There it is-- boom. Thank you. There you go.

Something else that they've added-- when you're on text, they've added this little plus sign next to the point size, and the little minus sign next to it as well. So you can go up by one point, and down by one point. That's new, too. That's only, I think, a week old.

All right, table contents-- [vocalizing] here we go. I'm going to go to my Shapes tool. [laughs] Sound effects for free. Shapes tool-- and we're going to just choose a button. We can choose any shape we want.

I'm going to choose this one this time. I have no idea what it is. Oh, it looks like a little teardrop. There we go. And then I want it to be a different color, because I want it to stand out. Yeah, that will stand out. All right.

And now I'm going to double click in it-- double click. And I get a little blinking cursor. And TOC-- oh, no. I don't want it to look like that. If you don't want the text to look like something, you can go to Format Options, go to Text Fitting. And look at that.

I can take away-- oops, wrong object selected. I can take away the padding. And that will allow TOC to fit in the box. Oh, my god, how great is that? How did I do that? I selected the object. I went to the Text Fitting option. And I took out the padding.