Google has introduced a brand new instrument for Slides that may make it easier to make your displays extra interactive and hold your viewers’s consideration. The brand new function, a pen instrument, enables you to write on a slide in actual time, so you possibly can encircle key figures, draw arrows, underline necessary info and simply usually scribble something you need on the presentation whereas in the midst of a gathering or a report. Whereas Slides has lengthy had the flexibility to show your mouse arrow right into a laser pointer, you needed to obtain a third-party instrument to have the ability to truly write annotations in the midst of a presentation.
Slides’ new pen instrument is constructed into this system, and there is no have to obtain something further. To entry it, it’s a must to open your file in slideshow mode after which mouse over the underside left facet to see the three-dot menu. From that menu, you will discover an possibility that reads “Activate the pen.” You possibly can select the pen shade you wish to use — black, crimson, blue or inexperienced — from the panel that exhibits up, and you may as well simply swap it off from the identical location. If you wish to erase what you’ve got written, you simply want to change from the pen to the eraser instrument within the backside left nook.
Google says the function can be obtainable to all Workspace prospects and customers with a private account, however it could take 15 days earlier than it is achieved rolling out the pen instrument to everybody.
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