If you project a typical slideshow on your phone’s screen in portrait mode, you’ll notice big black bars on the top and bottom of the slides. This way, Google Slides never uses all of your phone’s screen. Instead, creating a vertical slideshow is the perfect solution for making phone-friendly presentations that can be viewed in portrait mode.
How to Make a Vertical Presentation in Google Slides
Changing your slides from horizontal to vertical is a matter of dimensions. You can set up your slides to be in any dimensions you want. In our case, we want the height to be greater than the width, in order to achieve vertical slides.
If you’re making a presentation for mobile phones, then it’s worth noting that most newer phones come with 1080×1920 resolutions on their screens. These numbers are in pixels. With these in mind, let’s get to making a vertical presentation in Google Slides.
Create a new presentation in Google Slides. Go to the File menu. Click on Page setup. Click on Widescreen 16:9 and then select Custom. Two text boxes and a drop-down menu will appear. Change inches to the unit you’d like. We’re going to use pixels. In the first text box from the left, enter the width for your page. That’ll be 1080 in our case. In the second text box, enter the height for your page. That’ll be 1920 for this example. Click Apply.
Now your slides are all vertical. If you already have a presentation and change the page setup, the presentation will change to the vertical form. However, it’s possible that the elements in the slide will be displaced, so you’ll need to do some clean-up on that behalf.
All the themes in Google Slides are compatible with vertical resolutions as well. If the default themes aren’t up to your standards, you can download Google Slides themes from other sources as well.
Ninety-Degree Rotation in Your Google Slides
Though the majority of presentations are created in horizontal ratios for horizontal screens, that doesn’t mean that they have to be that way! In Google Slides, you can change the size of the slides to anything that you like, and now you know just how to do that.
By making the slides vertical, you can utilize the full size of vertical screens. These can include mobile phones or outdoor screens designed for displaying advertisements.
