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[Workspace] One-Click Speaker Note Removal in Slides!

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Are you ready to get your mind blown?

What if I said you can remove all speaker notes in a Google Slides presentation with a click of a button:

I’ve found this to be extremely handy when:

  1. My colleagues are copy pasting their slides into my presentation (so the font and font sizes for the speaker notes are all different)
  2. When I want a clean copy of a presentation but I don’t want to make another copy

Step-by-step instructions

In your menu, click Extensions > Apps Script

Don't worry, you won't need to write any code!

  • Select all > Delete
  • Copy and paste the script below > Save > Run > Authorize permissions > Refresh Google Slides
function onOpen() {
  // This function adds a custom menu to Google Slides to run our script
  SlidesApp.getUi()
    .createMenu('Slide Tools')
    .addItem('Remove Speaker Notes', 'removeSpeakerNotes')
    .addToUi();
}

function removeSpeakerNotes() {
  // This function removes speaker notes from each slide
  var slides = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation().getSlides();

  slides.forEach(function(slide) {
    var notesPage = slide.getNotesPage();
    var speakerNotesShape = notesPage.getSpeakerNotesShape();

    if (speakerNotesShape.getText().asString().trim() !== '') {
      speakerNotesShape.getText().clear();
    }
  });
}
  • Clicking the custom button from within your Google Slides presentation will now remove speaker notes from all slides!
Let me know if you’d like more of these app script use cases!

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