Screenshot of Google Slides with option to enter meeting code under 'Present to a meeting' highlighted.
So, how is Present to a meeting different from present mode?
The short answer is, it’s not massively different. However, Present to a meeting in Google Slides does have a few advantages. It aligns with your Google Calendar, so if you do a lot of work in the wider Google Workspace it might streamline things a bit. The Choose what to share pop-up is also a nifty feature for those of us who live in mild fear of sharing the wrong screen or tab in an online meeting (i.e. pretty much everyone).
However, we also noticed a couple of drawbacks. The phone number in brazil biggest issue is that it’s not immediately obvious how to present slides in full screen when using Share with a meeting. If you know the steps, you can present slides in full screen — just select Entire screen when choosing what to share. After you start sharing, click the white Present button (yes, the one we told you to ignore earlier). Back in Meet, you’ll see your slides in full screen mode. So it’s doable, but perhaps not quite as intuitive as it could be – maybe have a practice before that big meeting.
The verdict
Present mode, but it can be a useful complement to it. We definitely recommend playing around with it, especially if you conduct a lot of work over Google Meet. If you need to quickly share a Google Slides document in an internal meeting using Google Workspace and grab some feedback from colleagues, it’s a quick and easy way to do so.
If you’ve found this useful, check out these other blog posts written by our Google Slides gurus: How to share your Google Slides presentation or Editing the Google Slides Master and Layouts. And, if you’re feeling particularly enthusiastic and want the full run-down, grab a coffee and head over to our ULTIMATE guide to Google Slides.When you’ve got a monster master deck in PowerPoint stuffed full of every bit of content you could ever hope to cover, navigation can be daunting. Maybe you’re presenting to different audiences with different priorities – do you have to create a unique presentation each time? What if someone asks a question which is perfectly answered by one of your slides – do you have to click through every other slide in the deck to find it?