Practical help for loading, presenting, images, videos, layouts, sharing, offline use, exporting, recovery and school-wide Google Slides troubleshooting.
Browse Google Slides guides by problem.
Fix presentations that will not load, become slow, freeze or crash.
↓Resolve images, videos, fonts, layouts, animations and embedded content.
↓Set view or edit access correctly and diagnose school permission problems.
↓Present reliably, export correctly and recover an older presentation.
↓Diagnose account, browser, cache, device and shared-computer issues.
↓Identify the scope of the problem and prepare it for IT or administrator support.
↓Start here when Google Slides will not load, becomes slow during a lesson, or repeatedly freezes or crashes.
Use these guides when images or video disappear, fonts or layouts look wrong, or classroom content needs to be embedded or linked correctly.
Start here when someone cannot view or edit a presentation, or when school Workspace policies appear to be blocking access.
Use these guides to present when connectivity is unreliable, resolve printing or export problems, and restore an older presentation version.
These guides help when the Slides problem may actually be caused by the Google account, browser, cache, school device or shared-computer environment.
Use these guides when the first fixes do not solve the issue and you need to identify its scope, collect evidence or escalate it correctly.
These quick checks usually tell you whether the issue is with the presentation, account, browser, media or school environment.
Confirm that the teacher or student is signed in with the correct school Google account.
Check whether the issue appears in edit mode, presentation mode, or both.
If images or video are involved, confirm that the media is still accessible and has not been moved.
Try the presentation in another browser or device to separate a file problem from a device problem.
Send us what happened, whether it occurs while editing or presenting, and any error message you can see.