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 together photos, videos, or audio. To assistance plan your presentation, you can also add epitome placeholders.

Add an image to a document or presentation

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

Larn how to add images in Sheets.

Position & edit an epitome in a document

  1. On your computer, get to Google Docs.
  2. Open up a document.
  3. Click an epitome you want to move or edit. A pop-up window will open up below with editing options.
  4. To change your paradigm'southward layout, select an selection:

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

  5. If you lot selected "Wrap text" or "Break text," you can change the position to:
    • Move with text
    • Set up position on folio

You can brand additional changes to an image:

  1. Click Image optionsMoreand thenAll paradigm options.

  2. In the sidebar on the right, select an image option:

    • Size & Rotation: Gear up the size, scale, and rotation of your prototype.

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

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

    • Recolor: Change the color of your prototype.

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

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

Add together an prototype from your desktop or the spider web

Elevate an image

Important: This feature isn't bachelor for Google Sheets.

  1. On your calculator, click an image on your computer or a website.
  2. Concur and drag the epitome into your certificate.

Copy & paste an image

  1. On your computer, correct-click an image on your computer or website.
  2. Click Copy.
  3. Go to your document, presentation, or spreadsheet.
  4. Click PastePaste.

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

Add an image placeholder

Supplant an paradigm

  1. On your calculator, open a document or presentation in Google Docsor Slides.
  2. Right-click an image you want to replace.
  3. Click Supervene upon paradigm.
  4. Select where you lot want to go your paradigm from:
    • Upload from estimator
    • Search the web
    • Drive
    • Photos
    • By URL
    • Camera
  5. Cull an image.
  6. Click Supercede or Select.

Learn how to replace images in Sheets.

Add together a video to a presentation

  1. On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
  2. Click the slide where you lot desire to add together the video.
  3. Click Insert and thenVideo.
  4. Select where to go 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 at present automatically plays videos like other blitheness or slide transitions.

To start a video and advance the slide, cull an option:

  • Press whatsoever primal
  • Click the mouse
  • Employ a remote clicker

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

Change how a video plays in your presentation:

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

Add together sound file to a presentation

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

Tip: Y'all can employ .wav files from:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Microsoft Edge
  1. On your computer, 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.

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

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