Concept: Editing Slides Presentations
Slide Editing and Navigating
This table summarizes some of the actions that you can take within Slides presentations. Users
must have access to the
Slides
and Drive
domains to create and edit
presentations.A session in Slides will time out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Action | Notes |
|---|---|
Add a slide | To add a slide with the same layout as another slide, click the
+ icon below the slide in the thumbnail
panel. To add a slide with a different layout, select a layout from the
drop-down list.A presentation can include up to 100 slides. |
Select branding and chart colors | Click File > Color
Settings . You can select a color or type a color hex
code for the slide accent color and to represent each of the colors in a
chart.You can also save custom hex colors and reuse them throughout the
presentation when applying color to text, table cells, backgrounds, and
borders. Slides uses the branding color from the Configure Tenant Branding
task for slide layouts by default. If there's no branding color
configured in the Configure Tenant Branding task,
Slides uses the blue Workday brand color as the default. |
Add background color or image to a slide | Hover over the slide in the thumbnail panel and click Slide
Background . You can select an image or color, or type a
color hex code. |
Duplicate a slide | Hover over the slide in the thumbnail panel and click
Duplicate Slide . |
Delete a slide | Hover over the slide in the thumbnail panel and click Delete
Slide . |
Tile Editing
You can add text, tables, charts, and images to a presentation by inserting content tiles.
Each slide can include up to 50 tiles.
You can also link to data from Worksheets by selecting defined names or references to pivot
tables from a Worksheets workbook. A presentation can have links to as many as 500
unique data items, including up to 20 different Worksheets workbooks.
Currently
Slides can use only explicitly specified defined names from Worksheets such as
=Sheet1!$A$1:$A$13. It can't use "dynamic" defined names from a workbook such as
=ARRAYAREA('Sheet1'!A1).
You can also export data into presentations from People Analytics.
Action | Notes |
|---|---|
Add text | Click Insert > Text and type the text to
add. Use the toolbar to select fonts, styles, formats, and colors. Each
text tile can include up to 1 MB (1048576 characters) of text, excluding
linked values.To add linked data, click Insert >
Linked Value , navigate to the workbook, and
select the defined name containing the data.To open the workbook containing the linked data, click the text and then click the workbook
name. You must have view or edit access to the workbook. |
Add a table | Click Insert > Table and
select the type of table to add:
To open the workbook containing the linked data, click the table and then click
View Data Source . You must have view or edit
access to the workbook. |
Add a chart | Click Insert > Linked Chart . Navigate to a
workbook, select a data item, click Choose Chart
Type , and click Insert Chart .
Click the chart to open the chart editor panel and add titles, labels,
and legends.To open the workbook containing the linked data, click the chart and then
click View Data Source . You must have view or
edit access to the workbook.To select custom chart colors, click File >
Color Settings . You can select a color or
type a color hex code to represent each of the colors in the chart.Linked charts can have a maximum of 5,000 cells. Slides doesn't support
linked charts with data that includes numbers and percentages. |
Add an image | Click Insert > Image and
navigate to the image. Presentations can include up to 100 unique images
and each image can be up to 5 MB in size.To crop the image and fill the entire area within the tile, click
Format > Image Fit
> Crop to fit .To change the shape of the image to a circle, click
Format > Image to
Circle . To change it back to a square, click
Tile > Border
Radius > None . |
Add a video | Click Insert > Video and
navigate to a media file in Drive. You can only add media file types
available in Drive. |
Add a text hyperlink | Highlight the text, click Insert >
Hyperlink and type or paste the URL. |
Show or hide linked data values | Click View > Show Linked Value
Indicator to show or hide the blue background color that
indicates text contains a linked value. |
View linked data | Click View > Linked Data
to open the Linked Data panel and view all linked
data sources and data items in the presentation.When you select a data item in the Linked Data
panel, an orange border displays around each tile and slide that
contains that linked data.If the name of a workbook is missing in the Linked
Data panel then you don’t have access to that workbook
or the linked data, either because the workbook is not shared with you
or because the workbook is in Trash in Drive. |
Refresh linked data | Click File > Refresh Linked Data to check
for changes in linked workbook data and update it throughout the
presentation. An orange icon displays in the Linked
Data panel next to the data items that change.To refresh data for a specific workbook data source or item, click the
Refresh arrows. You must have view or edit
access to the workbook to refresh the data. If the name of the workbook
is missing in the Linked Data panel then you
don’t have access to that workbook, either because the workbook is not
shared with you or because the workbook is in
Trash in Drive.You can’t refresh data items exported from People Analytics. When you insert a linked table from Worksheets, table formatting is
copied to the table in Slides. When linked data is refreshed in Slides,
format changes made to the Worksheets table are not updated in Slides,
unless the size of the table in Worksheets has changed. |
Revert last data refresh | Click Revert Last Refresh to revert changes that occurred
during the preceding data refresh. |
Move a tile | Select and hold a tile and then move it to the new location. |
Resize a tile | Select a tile and click and drag the border sizing handles. Press and hold the Shift key while dragging the corner of the tile to
maintain the tile’s width and height ratio. |
Adjust tile alignment | Select View > Show Grid to
display visual gridlines and View >
Grid Size to adjust the size of the
gridlines.Select View > Snap to Grid
to have a tile automatically align to the gridlines when you move
it. |
Arrange tiles on a slide | Select a tile and click Tile >
Order to move a tile in front of or behind
another tile. |
Add background color to a tile | Select a tile and click Tile >
Background . You can then select a color or type a color hex
code. |
Increase or decrease tile padding | Select a tile and click Tile >
Padding . |
Change the type of content in a tile | Select a tile, click Tile > Change
Tile Type , and select the type of content for the
tile. |
Delete a tile | Select a tile and click Tile >
Delete . |