Insert or delete images & videos

You tin can add or remove photos, videos, or .gif files in Google Docs or Sheets. In Google Slides you can add photos, videos, or audio. To aid plan your presentation, you lot can also add epitome placeholders.

Add together an image to a document or presentation

  1. On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Slides.
  2. Click Insertand thenPrototype.
  3. Choose where to get your epitome from.
    • Upload from computer: Insert an image saved on your device.
    • Search the web: Search the web for an image.
    • Bulldoze: Use an image saved to your Google Drive.
    • Photos: Use an epitome from your Google Photos library.
    • By URL: Insert a link to your prototype or insert a .gif.
  4. Click Insert or Open.

Learn how to add together images in Sheets.

Position & edit an image in a document

  1. On your computer, get to Google Docs.
  2. Open up a document.
  3. Click an prototype you want to move or edit. A pop-up window volition open up below with editing options.
  4. To modify your image's layout, select an pick:

    Important: These features aren't available in documents that are in pageless format. To apply these features, make sure your certificate is in pages format.

  5. If you selected "Wrap text" or "Interruption text," you lot can change the position to:
    • Motility with text
    • Set up position on page

Yous can make boosted changes to an image:

  1. Click Epitome optionsMoreand thenAll paradigm options.

  2. In the sidebar on the right, select an epitome selection:

    • Size & Rotation: Set the size, scale, and rotation of your paradigm.

    • Text Wrapping: Set how your image interacts with the text around it.

    • Position: Set the position for your paradigm in the document.

    • Recolor: Change the colour of your prototype.

    • Adjustments: Ready the transparency, brightness, and contrast of your image.

Important: Text Wrapping and Position aren't bachelor in documents that are in pageless format. To utilise these features, make certain your document is in pages format.

Add together an image from your desktop or the web

Drag an paradigm

Important: This characteristic isn't available for Google Sheets.

  1. On your computer, click an image on your computer or a website.
  2. Hold and drag the image into your document.

Copy & paste an image

  1. On your estimator, right-click an image on your computer or website.
  2. Click Re-create.
  3. Get to your document, presentation, or spreadsheet.
  4. Click PastePaste.

Tip: It may take a moment for your image to open.

Add an image placeholder

Supplant an paradigm

  1. On your computer, open up a document or presentation in Google Docsor Slides.
  2. Right-click an image y'all desire to supplant.
  3. Click Replace prototype.
  4. Select where yous want to become your image from:
    • Upload from calculator
    • Search the web
    • Drive
    • Photos
    • By URL
    • Camera
  5. Choose an prototype.
  6. Click Replace or Select.

Learn how to replace images in Sheets.

Add together a video to a presentation

  1. On your calculator, open up a presentation in Google Slides.
  2. Click the slide where y'all want to add together the video.
  3. Click Insert and thenVideo.
  4. Select where to get your video from:
    • Search YouTube
    • By URL
    • Google Drive
  5. Cull a video.
  6. Click Select.

Play a video during a Google Slides presentation

Google Slides now automatically plays videos like other animation or slide transitions.

To start a video and accelerate the slide, choose an pick:

  • Press any cardinal
  • Click the mouse
  • Use a remote clicker

Tip: Update older presentations to automatically play in-format options, such every bit audio and video.

Change how a video plays in your presentation:

  1. Select the video.
  2. In the toolbar, click Format options.
    • You lot can also right-click on the video, then from the carte, select Format options.
  3. In the sidebar, under "Video playback," choose an pick:
    • Play (on click): Video plays when you lot advance the slide. This is the default.
    • Play (automatically): Video plays without any clicks.
    • Play (manual): Video plays when you lot click specifically on the embedded video in the slide. This was previously the default.

Add sound file to a presentation

You can add .mp3 and .wav files stored in your Drive to a presentation. Learn how to upload files to Google Drive.

Tip: You lot can use .wav files from:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Microsoft Edge
  1. On your reckoner, open a presentation in Google Slides.
  2. Select the slide that you want to add the audio file to.
  3. ClickInsert and then  Audio.
  4. Choose an audio file.
  5. Click Select.

Access checker automatically suggests permissions for new users of presentations with:

  • Audio files
  • Video files

To ensure that a presenter can play a shared presentation embedded with video and audio files:

  1. On your calculator, open a Google Slides presentation.
  2. Click Share.
  3. Add together people or groups.
  4. Choose Editor, Commenter, or Viewer.
  5. Click Share.
    • Tip: Access checker is automated and may suggest an update to permissions.
  6. Confirm changes.

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