Insert or delete images & videos

You 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 help programme your presentation, you can besides add prototype placeholders.

Add an image to a document or presentation

  1. On your calculator, open a document or presentation in Google Docs or Slides.
  2. Click Insertand thenImage.
  3. Choose where to go your image from.
    • Upload from figurer: Insert an prototype saved on your device.
    • Search the spider web: Search the web for an epitome.
    • Bulldoze: Employ an prototype saved to your Google Drive.
    • Photos: Employ an image from your Google Photos library.
    • Past URL: Insert a link to your image or insert a .gif.
  4. Click Insert or Open.

Learn how to add images in Sheets.

Position & edit an prototype in a document

  1. On your computer, become to Google Docs.
  2. Open up a document.
  3. Click an image you desire to move or edit. A pop-up window will open up below with editing options.
  4. To alter your image'south layout, select an option:

    Important: These features aren't bachelor in documents that are in pageless format. To apply these features, brand sure your document is in pages format.

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

Yous can brand additional changes to an image:

  1. Click Prototype optionsMoreand thenAll image options.

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

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

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

    • Position: Gear up the position for your image in the document.

    • Recolor: Alter the colour of your image.

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

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

Add together an epitome from your desktop or the web

Drag an image

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

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

Copy & paste an prototype

  1. On your computer, right-click an image on your calculator 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 together an image placeholder

Supersede an prototype

  1. On your computer, open a document or presentation in Google Docsor Slides.
  2. Right-click an image you want to supercede.
  3. Click Replace image.
  4. Select where you want to get your paradigm from:
    • Upload from reckoner
    • Search the web
    • Drive
    • Photos
    • By URL
    • Camera
  5. Choose an epitome.
  6. Click Supersede 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 want to add 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 blitheness or slide transitions.

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

  • Press any key
  • Click the mouse
  • Use 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.
    • You can also right-click on the video, then from the menu, select Format options.
  3. In the sidebar, under "Video playback," choose an option:
    • Play (on click): Video plays when y'all advance the slide. This is the default.
    • Play (automatically): Video plays without whatever clicks.
    • Play (manual): Video plays when you click specifically on the embedded video in the slide. This was previously the default.

Add audio file to a presentation

Yous tin can add together .mp3 and .wav files stored in your Drive to a presentation. Learn how to upload files to Google Bulldoze.

Tip: Y'all can use .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. Cull 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 tin play a shared presentation embedded with video and sound files:

  1. On your computer, open up a Google Slides presentation.
  2. Click Share.
  3. Add together people or groups.
  4. Cull 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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