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# ✴️ Google Slides: 3 Useful Shortcuts
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-40/
- Published: 2022-08-19T14:59:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:13:05.000Z
- Description: #40
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Slides

## 🤔 What is it?

If you’re presenting in Google Slides:

1. Press “L” for laser pointer
2. Press “B” for a black holding slide
3. Press “W” for a white holding slide

## 🤷🏻 When should I use this?

If you’re presenting your screen and another colleague wants to quickly take over and present something relevant, you can just press “B” or “W” to immediately go to a holding slide so the audience aren’t distracted by 2 different presentations

This way you also don’t need to exit out from your presentation and lose track of which slide you were on

Using a laser pointer is especially useful if there are a lot of content on the slide and you want to focus your audiences’ attention on a specific section of the slide

## 📸 Instructions

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/08/CleanShot-2022-08-19-at-10.51.08.gif)

L for laser pointer, B for black holding slide, W for White holding slide

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