Modify a Google Slides presentation while presenting?

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cmdr_keen picture cmdr_keen · Oct 3, 2017 · Viewed 12.1k times · Source

I'm afraid I already know the answer, but maybe someone else has found a way to do this.

I've been perusing the Slide Apps Script reference, and I'm excited about the possibilities. One thing I would like to do is alter a slide mid-presentation. Specifically, I would like to somehow indicate a link has been clicked.

If links in a presentation turned purple like web links I would settle for that, but I would like to use a trigger when a certain link is clicked or when a certain slide is shown. This trigger could run a script that alters the slide with the link appropriately to show the link has been clicked or evwen remove the link altogether.

I know the Slides API is behind the others, but Forms have installable triggers that can run onFormSubmit and Spreadsheets have triggers that run onChange and onEdit. I would love to see Slides have an onPresent trigger that ran a script that could detect slide changes with methods like onSlideChange that could report currentSlide. That way we could run scripts while the presentation is showing and take action based on current slides or links.

Aside from Slide specific triggers being added to the API, is there any way to modify slides during a presentation? Or at least show that a link has been clicked?

Thanks,

-keen

Answer

N Ranallo picture N Ranallo · Nov 18, 2020

The bookmarklet on the link below will let you mimic present mode while still being in edit mode. https://ranallotechteacher.weebly.com/

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