Make presentations together in Deck

Open Deck from the app bar and choose New presentation or a template (Pitch deck, Project update, Lesson, Portfolio, Quarterly review). You can also use New, Deck presentation in Drive. To bring in slides from another app, open a presentation and choose File, Import slides from a .pptx file, or File, Open a .pptx file as a new presentation.

• Click a text box to select it and click again to type. Drag to move, use the corners to resize (hold Shift to keep the proportions) and the round handle above to rotate.
• Pink guides appear when an edge or centre lines up with the slide or another item, and when the gaps on both sides match. Hold Alt while dragging to place things freely.
• Drag across empty space to select several items. Arrange lines them up, spaces them evenly and moves them in front or behind.
• Add slides from the + button or the rail on the left, and drag slides in the rail to reorder them. Right-click a slide to duplicate, hide or delete it.
• The Design panel (the brush) has ten themes, the slide size, the layout, the background and the transition for each slide. Switching between 16:9 and 4:3 scales each slide to fit; switching straight back puts everything where it was.
• Text boxes grow as you type, so text never spills out of its box.
• Everyone edits the same copy at once. Other people's selections are outlined in their colour with their name.
• Select something and choose Comment to discuss a slide. Version history keeps earlier versions you can preview and restore.

Presenting

Choose Present. Move on with the arrow keys, Space, a click, or a swipe on a phone. L switches the laser pointer, B blacks the screen out, W turns it white, F switches full screen and Esc ends the show. With presenter view opens a second window with the current and next slide, your speaker notes and a timer; it controls the show in the first window, so move that one to the projector. The audience never sees your speaker notes during the show, but they are part of the presentation: anyone who can open it, or who downloads the .pptx file, can read them.