Importing PowerPoint Slides into your Presentation

Adding PowerPoints into your slideshow is a extremely easy if you have already setup your main presentation to display Google Presentations as shown here.  To start importing your slides you will need to first go to your Google Drive Account.  After getting into your account you will next select the Google Presentation that is currently setup with your main presentation.

Importing Slides

After opening up your presentation you will want to first go to File and then select "Import Slides" from the drop down menu.  Next you can either import slides from a PowerPoint which have already been uploaded to your Google Drive or you can choose to upload a new one that is currently located on your computer.

Importing PowerPoint located on Google Drive

Selecting PowerPoint in Google Drive

You will be presented with a list of compatible PowerPoint files currently located on your Google Drive.  Simply highlight the one you would like to use and click on "Select" at the bottom.

Adding PowerPoint located on Computer

Adding PowerPoint files located on your computer

First you will want to select "Upload" from the options on the left hand side of the box.  Next you can click on "Choose files to upload" in order to browse to the PowerPoint you are going to use in your presentation.  Alternatively you can browse to it through a normal windows explorer and then drag it into the browser to upload the file.  

After selecting your PowerPoint you will be shown a list of all the slides in your presentation.  You can then either select individual slides or you can click on the "All" button in the top right hand corner in order to import all the slides located in your PowerPoint.

After clicking on "Import Slides" you slides will be automatically added to your main presentation!  If you have setup your presentation properly these new slides should now be showing in your presentation.  By taking advantage of this feature you can now create and update professional looking content and quickly get it to your screens!

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Automatically convert Microsoft Office Documents into Google Documents

In order to make your life a little easier there's a simple tweak which you can use to automatically convert your Microsoft Documents into Google Docs.  This is very handy feature for importing Excel files and PowerPoint files so you can use them directly in your presentation without much additional effort.

Link to Google Drive on Google's Homepage 

First you will want to go to your Google Drive account.  You can access it by going google.com and clicking on the link labeled Drive at the top.  Please note this may show as Documents if you have not upgraded to Google Drive yet or if you are not currently logged in to your Google Account.  

Direct web address to access Google Drive

You can also access the account directly by going to https://drive.google.com

Once there all you will need to do is to select the settings icon in the top right hand corner of Google Drive (indicated by a gear icon) and then go down to the upload settings.  There find the option "Convert uploaded files to Google Docs format" and select that option.  You can make sure the option has been enabled by finding the check mark next to it to indicate that this feature is currently active.

Please note that if you do import a PowerPoint Presentation any transitions you have used will be lost. You can however add these again by opening the file in Google Presentation and apply transitions between the slides.

Now in the future if you upload for example an Excel spreadsheet it will automatically be converted to a Google Spreadsheet which is now correctly formatted to be used in your presentation. Now all you have to do is enable the appropriate sharing settings and insert the link in your presentation.  This is very useful as it prevents you from having to copy and paste from Microsoft Office Documents into the Google Documents and allows you to easily use materials that have already been prepared in Microsoft Office.

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