With Gemini in Google Slides, you can:
- Create images.
- Generate new slides.
- Summarize a presentation.
- Write or rewrite content.
- Reference your Drive files or Gmail emails as you write or create a new slide.
Feature availability
- This feature is available as part of the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise Alpha.
- Your administrator controls access to the Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha. If you can’t find these features, your administrator may not have Alpha features enabled for your organization.
- This feature is also available as part of our early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs.
Get started with Gemini in Slides
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- At the top right, click Ask Gemini
.
- In the side panel, select a suggested prompt or write your own prompt.Select a suggestion
Enter a prompt in Gemini
- Select from the list of suggestions.
- Tip: To get more options, select More suggestions.
- At the bottom, in the prompt box, replace the example text with the information that you want.
- Press Enter.
- At the bottom, in the prompt box, enter a prompt.
- Press Enter.
- Select from the list of suggestions.
- Optional: To remove your history, click More options
Clear history.
- Tip: To avoid losing your history, insert a suggestion into your presentation. You lose your conversation history when:
- You refresh your browser.
- You close and reopen the presentation.
- Your computer goes offline.
- Tip: To avoid losing your history, insert a suggestion into your presentation. You lose your conversation history when:
Explore Gemini in Slides
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Ask Gemini |
Open Gemini |
More options  |
Clear your recent Gemini history and ask for more suggestions |
| Expand |
Make Gemini larger |
| Collapse |
Return Gemini to its original size |
Close  |
Close Gemini |
| Clear history |
Remove all generated text and images you did not insert into the document yet |
| More suggestions |
Find more suggestions from Gemini |
| More image suggestions |
Find more image suggestions from Gemini |
| Insert |
Insert generated text into your slide |
| Insert image |
Insert a generated image into your slide |
| Insert slide |
Insert a generated slide into your presentation |
Copy  |
Copy a suggestion |
| Retry |
Generate a different response from Gemini |
| Preview |
Preview the full suggestion before you insert it |
| Retry with Google Search |
Search on Google for more information about your question or request |
View more  |
View more of the response from Gemini |
View less  |
Minimize the response from Gemini |
| Good suggestion |
Give positive feedback about a response from Gemini |
| Bad suggestion |
Report an issue with a response from Gemini |
Things to ask Gemini in Slides
Create images based on slide content with Gemini- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- At the top right, click Ask Gemini
- On the side panel, you can:
- Create an image based on a selected slide: Enter “Create an image" or "Suggest images for this slide.”
- Select a suggested prompt: The Gemini in the Slides side panel might suggest images based on the content on your slides.
- Create your own prompt: For example, you can ask “Create an image of a dog with glasses.”
- Press Enter.
- To insert a specific image, hover over the image and click Insert
.
- Optional: To send feedback about the image, click Good suggestion
or Bad suggestion
.
- Optional: To send feedback about the image, click Good suggestion
- You can also:
- Edit the prompt: Click Edit Prompt
.
- Generate more images: At the bottom, click Generate more
.
- Edit the prompt: Click Edit Prompt
You can use the Gemini in Slides side panel to generate a new slide.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Tip: New slides will be generated using your current theme.
- At the top right, click Ask Gemini
- On the side panel, select a prompt or create your own. Reference files with @ to create slides using your documents from Google Drive.
- Examples:
- “Create a slide about how to optimally train for a marathon.”
- “Create a slide about @ Company 2023 Goals deck.”
- "Create a slide about doc @Core Team sync."
- "Create a slide proposing ideas for engaging with our customers."
- Examples:
- From the generated slide, you can:
- Get a different version: In the menu at the bottom of the slide, click Retry
.
- Add the slide to your presentation: In the menu at the bottom of the slide, click Insert
.
- Refine the generated slide: In the menu at the bottom of the slide, click Close
. On the side panel, write a new prompt.
- Send feedback: In the menu at the bottom of the slide, click Good suggestion
- Get a different version: In the menu at the bottom of the slide, click Retry
When you open a presentation that has text, in the Gemini in the Slides side panel, you’ll find a summary of your presentation.
You can also use Gemini to generate text for your presentation.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- At the top right, click Ask Gemini
- Enter a prompt:
- Examples:
- “Summarize this presentation in 3 sentences.”
- “Create a slide that celebrates a colleague's work anniversary.”
- Examples:
- Press Enter.
- To add the suggested content to the presentation, click Insert
.
- You can also:
- Generate a new suggestion: Click Retry
- Send feedback: Click Good suggestion
- Generate a new suggestion: Click Retry
You can use Gemini to reference files from your Drive to generate responses in Slide.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- At the top right, click Ask Gemini
- To reference a Drive file, enter a prompt with the file name:
- Example: “Create a slide outlining the next steps from @meeting notes and @core team sync."
- To reference your emails from Gmail, on the side panel, enter a prompt.
- Example: “Create a summary of @monthly review emails.”
- To check which files were used, at the bottom of the response, click Sources.
- You can also:
- Add the text to your presentation: Click Insert
- Get a different version: Click Retry
- Send feedback: Click Good suggestion
- Add the text to your presentation: Click Insert
- “How do I start a Q&A while presenting?”
- “What is the best way to share these slides with more than 100 people?”
Important: To get answers from the web, make sure to include phrases like “Use Google Search” or “Using web search” in your prompt.
- “Write a paragraph describing the weather today in Mountain View, California using web search.”
- “Help me write a paragraph explaining if lightning can strike the same place twice using only information from the web.”
Give feedback on generated output
Gemini for Google Workspace is constantly learning and may not be able to support your request.
If you get a suggestion that’s inaccurate or that you feel is unsafe, you can let us know by submitting feedback.
- Below the generated content, click Good suggestion
- If you click Bad suggestion
- Click Submit.
To provide general feedback on this feature, at the top, go to Help 
To report a legal issue, create a request.
Learn about Gemini feature suggestions
- Gemini feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.
- Don’t rely on Gemini features as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
- Gemini features may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Gemini more helpful and safe.
- Enterprise end users can submit feedback about their experience using this feature. End users are informed before they submit feedback that the feedback data shouldn’t contain personal, sensitive, or confidential information.
- Your conversations with Gemini in Slides are not saved to Gemini Activity. When you delete your Gemini in Slides conversation history, it doesn't delete any information that is saved to your Gemini Activity. Learn how to delete your Gemini Activity.
- Generated images are for use only within Google Slides.
- Gemini generated images are designed to bring your imagination to life in Slides, and may not represent real-world situations.