Slides

Now you can rotate elements in the Slides editor. Just grab a corner and drag 🙌  http://slides.com/news/rotation

Now you can use custom fonts from Typekit and Google Fonts in your presentations! http://slides.com/news/custom-fonts

Since our launch, Slides has been an amazing place to create, share, and live present presentations. Today, we’re excited to publicly unveil the top-most requested feature on Slides: shared editing of presentations, what we’re calling Collaborate.

With Collaborate on Slides, we’ve made it incredibly easy to work together with others. All a collaborator needs is a free Slides account (they’ll be prompted to sign up if they don’t yet have one) and a web browser.

As the presentation owner, you have full control over how others can access your presentation. When inviting a collaborator, you assign them a role — to view and comment, edit, or have access to invite others, too. You can also revoke access at any time.

Comments are made on the active slide, so the context is tracked and browsable. There is also a master comment thread showing the entire conversation. If there are new comments while a collaborator is offline, they are caught up via an email summary.

With Collaborate, it’s easy for everyone to follow along in real-time and instantly provide feedback, saving lots of time in the process.

Available now

To give Collaborate a try, sign in to your Slides account, open a presentation in the editor and press the Collaborate icon in the top right corner. Take a look at the help article if you’d like to learn more and see some screenshots.

If you don’t yet have a Slides account, you can sign up here.

 — Slides Team

Learn how you can use our new fragment styles to show or hide slide content. http://slides.com/news/fragment-styles

The new Line content type lets you draw directional lines and arrows. Learn all about it: http://slides.com/news/lines/

Now you can show slide numbers on your presentations! Learn how to enable them and see examples here: http://slides.com/news/slide-numbers/

When slides aren’t presented in person the viewer may lose context and once context is lost so is the message.

To help add some of that important narrative back we’ve made it possible to share speaker notes with people who view your deck. Shared notes appear along the bottom of the screen almost like a line of subtitles.

Find out more and see a few examples: http://slides.com/news/share-slide-notes

Now you can add tables to your presentations! Find out more: http://slides.com/news/tables

Thanks to all 300,000+ of you who’ve joined Slides since we launched two years ago! It’s been an incredible journey so far and we cannot wait to show you what we’ve got in store for the coming year. Stay tuned!

Check out this deck for a recap of what we’ve built so far: http://slides.com/news/make-better-presentations

- The Slides Team

Starting today you can access all media that you upload to Slides through your own personal media library. This makes it easy to reuse assets and gives you full control over your content, including the ability to permanently delete it from our servers.

You can organize media using tags and even search to find assets based on their filename or media type. The media library appears automatically when you insert a new image in your slide deck.

For teams

Teams on slides have access to a shared media library which all members can make use of. Sharing media this way is great for key assets like company logos, branding material and icon sets.

SVG

We’ve also added support for SVG images! This makes it possible to add scalable graphics that will look crisp no matter the display size your presentation appears on. Check out some examples at http://slides.com/news/svg.

Learn more about the media library in the help article.

- The Slides Team