To open a list of keyboard shortcuts in Google Slides, press Ctrl + / (Windows, Chrome OS) or ⌘ + / (Mac). You can also use menu access keys. Open any application menu using the keyboard, then type the underlined letter for the item you'd like to select.
In Google Docs there is an equation editor that allows for users to insert math symbols into the document. Unfortunately there is not an equation editor for Google Presentation. A work around is, a Chrome App that will launch in the Chrome web browser. The Daum Equation editor works like most equation editors, a variety of templates for fractions, radicals, symbols and more. After creating your equation, in the bottom right hand corner is an option to Save as Image. On my Mac the Save as Image option does not add the.jpg file extension which is necessary to make the image file work.
Simply type.jpg at the end of the file name. I save the image files onto my desktop so that I can drag the images directly from the desktop into the Google Presentation. This is a relatively easy way to get math expressions into my Google Presentation. The downside is that the expressions are images, thus not interactive. If you need to make a change you will need to go back to the equation editor and create a new one. But this is a relatively easy, and free, way for students to get math symbols in their Google Presentations. The Daum Equation Editor is good, to be sure, but it’s limited to the Chrome browser.
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Many teachers already own MathType, and MathType actually works better with Google Drive Presentations. We have instructions on how to use MathType with Google Drive. The section on Presentations will produce the best-looking equations, but you can also follow the top section on Google Drive Docs for an easier solution. If you follow that process, it’s easier for sure, but if you enlarge the equation it gets fuzzy fast. Yes, that’s correct.
Google didn’t build this capability into their Presentations app. However, your question prompted me to do some more fiddling with it, and I think I have a decent solution now. Check out the presentation at. All equations were copy & paste from MathType. The first 2 equations were pasted from MathType, but required re-sizing in Presentations.
The last one is a simple copy & paste from MathType, with nothing done except moving it into position. (There’s no such thing as an “inline equation” in Google Presentations.) Email me at if you want to know how to do that with copy & paste.
If you use Google Docs (or Spreadsheets or Slides), here's a quick tip for getting to your files faster from your desktop. Instead of opening Google Docs directly in your browser, you can click on a shortcut on your taskbar or desktop and open the app that way. To do this, open Google Chrome and go to. If you want to create a shortcut to a specific document, open that file. Then go to the setting menu in Chrome (the three horizontal lines at the top right of your browser), More Tools, and Create Application Shortcuts.
You'll be able to choose if you want to pin the app or file to your taskbar and/or your desktop. Once you click Create, the shortcut will be added and you can open it just like you would any app on your desktop. It'll open in its own app window, which you can resize and work with as you do other app windows. Even better: If you have your most important or most used files starred in Google Drive, you can click on the Starred menu to see those files in Chrome, then use the same Create Application Shortcuts option to pin this window to your taskbar. The same goes for your Recent files.