How to present Google Slides on Google Meet and still see everyone else on the call

Andrew Johnston
2 min readAug 2, 2020

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⚠️ Update (Oct 2022): Google have now added the ability to directly interact with Google Slides when you’re presenting in Google Meet. If you’re on a Google Workspace plan which makes this available, that might work better than this.

I’m on a Google Meet call, and I want to present a Google Slides presentation, but still see everyone else on the call.

A Google Chrome window with two tabs — a Google Slides presentation, and a Google Meet call. The call is the active tab.

How do I do it?

First, I go to Google Slides and open Presenter view.

A Google Slides presentation, with the “Present” submenu open. This contains “Presenter view” and “Present from beginning”.

This begins the presentation in the Slides tab, but also pops up a window with my notes and a slide navigator.

Two Chrome windows side-by-side — one containing a presentation slide, and one containing a “presenter view” with notes

Now I just need to go back to Google Meet and click Present now followed by A Chrome tab.

The “Present now” menu in Google Meet, showing the three options “your entire screen”, “a window”, and “a chrome tab”.

I can then select the presentation itself from the list of tabs.

A list of 3 Chrome tabs — Google Slides, Google Meet, and a presenter view — from which one can be selected for sharing.

Now I can see the call (and anyone else on it), my presentation slides, and my notes.

Two Chrome windows side-by-side — the Google Slides presenter view and the Google Meet call.

The other people on the call see this:

A Google Meet call showing a Google Slides presentation slide, and one other person on the call.

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