Google has launched a brand new instrument for Slides that may enable you make your displays extra interactive and preserve your viewers’s consideration. The brand new function, a pen instrument, permits you to write on a slide in actual time, so you’ll be able to encircle key figures, draw arrows, underline vital data and simply typically scribble something you need on the presentation whereas in the course of a gathering or a report. Whereas Slides has lengthy had the flexibility to show your mouse arrow right into a laser pointer, you needed to obtain a third-party instrument to have the ability to truly write annotations in the course of a presentation. 

Slides’ new pen instrument is constructed into this system, and there is no have to obtain something additional. To entry it, it’s important to open your file in slideshow mode after which mouse over the underside left aspect to see the three-dot menu. From that menu, you will discover an possibility that reads “Activate the pen.” You’ll be able to select the pen shade you wish to use — black, crimson, blue or inexperienced — from the panel that reveals up, and you can even simply swap it off from the identical location. If you wish to erase what you’ve got written, you simply want to modify from the pen to the eraser instrument within the backside left nook. 

Google says the function will probably be obtainable to all Workspace clients and customers with a private account, however it might take 15 days earlier than it is carried out rolling out the pen instrument to everybody.