Self Help
VoVo Slides Self Help
VoVo Slides adds presentations to your VoVo website admin. VoVo saves as you work, keeping unsent changes on this device until they are saved. Each presentation belongs to the website where it was created.
Before you start
Check that the website selector in your admin shows the website where the presentation should live. Presentations stay with that website and never move to another one. If you can't find VoVo Slides in the Team section of your admin sidebar, ask your account owner or a website administrator to check that VoVo Slides is active for this website and that you are on its staff.
Find and create presentations
In your website admin, select VoVo Slides in the Team section of the sidebar. It opens the Files page for this website:
- Recent lists the presentations you can open, newest activity first.
- My files lists the ones you own, in folders you can nest.
- Shared with me lists the ones other people shared with you.
- Starred lists the ones you starred.
- Trash keeps what you moved to the trash for 30 days, so you can restore it, then deletes it for good.
Search finds words in names and in the slides. You can sort, filter by owner or type, and switch between a list and a grid; each presentation shows a picture of its first slide once someone who can edit it has opened it. Select several items to move, star, download or move them to the trash at once.
To start a presentation, select Blank presentation, or pick one of the starting decks: Pitch, Report, Lesson, Event, Sales proposal or Portfolio. Replace the sample text with your own.
To bring in a file of up to 100 MB, choose it under Upload a file to convert or drop it on the page. You can bring in PowerPoint (PPTX, PPTM, a PPSX show, a POTX template or an older PPT file from PowerPoint 97 to 2003), OpenDocument (ODP), PDF, or an outline in plain text, Rich Text (RTF) or Markdown. You first agree that an import may not keep everything exactly as it was. Every upload makes a new presentation and changes nothing else.
To bring in a file from Google Drive or OneDrive, select Google Drive or OneDrive beside Upload a file to convert and choose the file in the window that opens. Like an upload, it starts converting once you agree that an import may not keep everything exactly as it was, and it comes in exactly as an upload of the same file would, with the same size limit, checks and import report. A Google Slides presentation comes in as a PowerPoint file. The buttons appear when your website has Google Drive or OneDrive turned on in its settings. Each person connects their own account: until you do, the button reads Connect Google Drive or Connect OneDrive, and after you sign in you come back to the same page. If your browser blocks the window, allow pop-ups for your website and try again. Google Drive and OneDrive are not offered in a support session, and in the VoVo app you use Import a file.
- An import report lists anything that changed or could not carry over. Macros and ActiveX controls in a PPTM file never run; they are left out and named in the report.
- An older PPT file is converted to the current PowerPoint format first, on VoVo's own server, and then brought in like a PPTX file, so some layouts and effects may look a little different. Its macros, ActiveX controls and embedded programs never run; they are removed during the conversion and named in the report. A PPT file protected with a password, or one that cannot be converted within about a minute, is not brought in: open it in PowerPoint, save it as .pptx and upload that file.
- The original file you uploaded can be downloaded again from Version history with Download original file. Only the person who uploaded it and the presentation's owner can download the original, because it still holds anything VoVo left out, such as macros.
- Pictures, video, sound and fonts in the file are kept in your website's Hub or with the presentation, so nothing loads from another site. A font is kept only when its license allows editing.
- A PDF becomes one slide for each page, with its pictures, lines and shapes where they were and its text in the colors it was printed in, kept as text so search finds it and you can edit it. A straight line comes in as a line, an upright box as a rectangle and any other outline as a shape you can change; a fill across the whole page becomes the slide's background, and a gradient or pattern shows as one color. When a page draws more than a slide holds, lines and shapes that look the same are joined into one shape, and anything still past the limit is left out and named in the import report.
- In an outline, each line at the left starts a slide as its title, and the lines indented under it, with tabs or spaces or as list items, become its text. In Markdown, headings start the slides.
- A POTX template uploaded on the Files page joins This website's templates instead of becoming a presentation.
To reuse a presentation of your own, choose File > Save as template. It appears under This website's templates, where your website's staff can start new presentations from it. A website keeps up to 100 templates, and they count toward your storage. The person who saved a template, or a website administrator, can rename or delete it. Deleting one doesn't change presentations already started from it.
Work in the editor
The title bar shows the presentation's name; select it to rename the presentation. It also shows where it is saved, who else is in it, Share, and the folder button to move it. The back arrow returns you to Files.
The menus run along the top: File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Slide, Arrange, Tools and Help, with JagAI where your website uses it. Press Alt+/ to search every command by name, or Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on a Mac) to see the keyboard shortcuts. View > Hide the menus (Ctrl+Shift+F) gives the slide more room; the arrow at the end of the toolbar brings them back. The editor follows your light or dark setting.
- The slide list on the left shows every slide in order. Select a slide to show it on the stage.
- The stage in the middle shows the slide. Select a box, picture or shape to move, resize or change it. Double-click a text box, or select it and press Enter, to type in it; Escape stops typing.
- Speaker notes sit under the stage. Select the heading to fold them away.
- The side panel on the right holds the format options, design, motion, playback and the other panels. View > Side panel opens any of them, and the X closes it.
Press F6 to move between the menus, the toolbar, the slide list, the slide, the speaker notes, the side panel and any notices; Shift+F6 goes back. If your browser keeps F6 for its address bar, use Ctrl+F6. Escape closes a menu, panel or dialog and returns you to where you were.
On the slide, Tab and Shift+Tab go through the objects in reading order. Enter edits the selected object's text and Escape stops editing. The arrow keys move the selected object, and Alt with an arrow key changes its size; hold Shift for bigger steps. Format > Size and position does the same with fields and buttons.
On a phone or tablet, the slides run along a strip, the side panel opens as a sheet from the bottom, the speaker notes fold away, and a bar of large buttons handles the common edits. Viewers can swipe between slides.
Slides, sections and views
- Insert > New slide (Ctrl+M) adds a slide after the one you are on. Insert > New slide with layout picks its layout first.
- The Slide menu duplicates (Ctrl+D), deletes, moves (Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down) and hides slides. You can also drag slides in the slide list.
- Slide > Skip slide leaves a slide out of the slide show. Slide > Hide slide keeps it in the editor only, and downloads leave it out too.
- Slide > Add section groups the slides that follow under a name. Rename, remove, collapse or expand sections from the same menu, and use Move to section to move a slide.
- View > Grid view (Ctrl+Alt+1) shows every slide at once to reorder them.
- View > Outline view edits every slide's title and text as one outline. Enter in a title goes to its text, Ctrl+Enter adds a slide and Escape stops typing.
- Insert > Slides from outline makes slides from an outline you paste or an outline file.
- Insert > Import slides brings slides in from another presentation on this website, or from a PowerPoint file on your device, in Google Drive or in OneDrive. Choose the slides, and choose to keep their own design or take this presentation's theme.
- Insert > Slides from pictures makes one slide for each picture you choose.
- Insert > Ready-made slide adds an agenda, key numbers, a timeline, a team, a quote or a contact slide, styled by your theme.
A presentation holds up to 500 slides.
Zoom to slides and sections
A zoom is a picture of another slide that you click in the slide show to go there. It always shows that slide as it is now.
- Insert > Zoom > Slide zoom puts a zoom on this slide for each slide you choose.
- Insert > Zoom > Section zoom puts a zoom on this slide for each section you choose. It shows the section's first slide, and in the slide show it plays the section's slides and comes back here.
- Insert > Zoom > Summary zoom adds a Summary slide before the first section you choose, with a zoom for each section, so you can present them in any order. In a presentation without sections, choose the slides that start each part: each one starts a section named after its title.
- In these lists the arrow keys move between slides or sections, Space or Enter chooses one and Escape closes the list.
- Select a zoom and choose Format > Zoom, or open the Zoom options side panel, to change what it shows, turn Return to zoom on or off, or set the Zoom duration in seconds (at 0 the slide changes at once). Format > Zoom > Go to zoomed slide opens that slide in the editor. You can also double-click a zoom, or press Enter on it, to change what it shows.
- Format > Format options gives a zoom a border, a shadow or transparency, as for a picture.
- A zoom whose slide or section was deleted shows its last picture, if it has one, and goes nowhere in the slide show.
Layouts, themes and masters
- Slide > Layout changes the slide's layout and keeps its content: Title, Title and body, Two columns, Comparison, Section header, Title only, Picture with caption, Big number or Blank.
- Slide > Theme changes the colors and fonts of every slide: Default, Classic, Bold, Elegant, Friendly, Tech, Fresh or Editorial. Slide > Design opens the same choices in the side panel with the layouts and ready-made slides.
- Slide > Theme > Edit theme changes the theme's name, colors, fonts and background. Website staff who may save themes can choose Save for this website, and everyone who edits presentations on the website then finds it in Slide > Theme. Manage saved themes renames or deletes them.
- Slide > Theme > Theme from website brand makes a theme from your website's logo, design colors and fonts, and applies it to every slide. It doesn't appear when your website has none of them.
- Slide > Background sets a color, gradient or picture for this slide or every slide.
- Slide > Master and layouts changes a master and its layouts: placeholders, the title and body styles, footers, slide numbers and dates. You can add, copy, rename and delete masters and layouts. A layout or master that a slide still uses can't be deleted.
- Insert > Header and footer shows the footer, slide number and date on this slide or every slide.
Text
Select text in a text box, a shape or a table cell, or select the whole box, and use the toolbar or the Format menu:
- Text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, fonts, sizes, color, highlight and capitalization. Paint format and Copy formatting / Paste formatting copy formatting; Clear formatting (Ctrl+\) removes it.
- Paragraphs: alignment, indents, line and paragraph spacing, and left to right or right to left.
- Bullets and numbering: bulleted and numbered lists and checklists, with bullet and numbering styles, levels, and restart or continue numbering.
- Text box: Text fitting (do not autofit, shrink text on overflow, or resize the shape to fit the text), up to three Columns, and Text direction.
Insert > Link (Ctrl+K) links the selected text, picture or shape to a web address, another slide or a file. Links work in the slide show.
Insert > Equation (Alt+=) adds an equation with a symbol toolbar and LaTeX input.
Pictures, shapes and drawings
- Insert > Picture adds a picture from your computer, the Hub or a web address. You can also drag a picture onto the slide or paste one. VoVo keeps a copy in your website's Hub, so nothing loads from another site.
- Insert > Picture > Search the VoVo picture library finds pictures other VoVo websites made with JagAI and shared; search them or choose a category or shape. Use with watermark puts one on the slide with the VoVo logo over it, at no cost. Get a clean copy puts it on without the watermark: the price shows first and is paid from your website's Platform Wallet only when you choose Pay, and a picture your own website made is always free. To swap a watermarked library picture for a clean one later, select it and choose Format > Picture > Get a clean copy. Either way the copy is kept in your website's Hub. The library never shows which website made a picture. Insert > Picture gallery can take pictures from the library too. In the VoVo app the library offers the watermarked picture only.
- Select a picture and choose Format > Format options to crop it, crop it to a shape, recolor it, change its transparency or add a border. Format > Picture replaces it from your computer or the Hub, resets it, or adds alt text. Format > Mark as decorative tells screen readers to skip it.
- Insert > Picture gallery steps through several pictures in one place, in the editor and in the slide show.
- Insert > Shape adds basic shapes, arrows, stars and callouts. Type in a shape to add text. Format > Format options sets its fill, line, shadow and opacity.
- Insert > Line adds a line, an arrow or a double arrow. Select two objects and choose Connect selected objects or Connect with an elbow; the connector follows the objects when they move.
- Insert > Icons and stickers adds icons you can recolor.
- Insert > Shape or icon from JagAI draws a shape or icon from your description as shapes in your theme colors. The price shows first; see JagAI below.
- Insert > Drawing opens a drawing canvas, or draws a scribble or a freeform shape on the slide; press Escape to stop. Edit drawing changes a drawing later.
- Arrange > Combine shapes joins selected shapes (Union, Subtract, Intersect, Fragment) or breaks them apart. Save to the shapes library keeps a shape for your website's staff, and Insert > Drawing > Shapes library adds one.
A presentation holds up to 250 MB of pictures, video, sound and 3D models.
3D models
- Insert > 3D model adds a 3D model from this device or from the Hub, or drag a GLB file onto the slide. VoVo Slides takes models saved as GLB files (binary glTF 2.0) of up to 50 MB, with their textures inside the file. VoVo checks each model and keeps a copy in your website's Hub, so nothing loads from another site. A model that loads parts from other files, is compressed in a way VoVo Slides cannot show yet or is not glTF 2.0 is turned away with a message saying what to change.
- To turn a model, double-click it, select it and press Enter, or choose Format > 3D model > Turn the 3D model. Drag with the mouse or one finger to turn it, and scroll or pinch to bring it nearer or further. On the keyboard the arrow keys turn it (hold Shift for small steps), + and - zoom and Home faces it front. Press Escape or click elsewhere when you are done. Each turn is one undo step.
- Format > 3D model > Reset view faces the model front at its whole size again. The 3D model view of the side panel has the same buttons, the model's alt text and Decorative for a model that is only decoration.
- In the slide show, drag, scroll or pinch a model to see it from every side, or press Tab to reach it and use the arrow keys, + and -. Turning it there changes nothing in the presentation.
- Thumbnails, version history, pictures of slides and downloads show a picture of the model as you last turned it, which VoVo Slides makes a moment after each change. PowerPoint files keep the model itself; OpenDocument files and PDFs get the picture.
- Turning a model needs a current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari (17 or later). Other browsers show its picture.
Ink
- Choose Draw > Ink, or Ink on the toolbar, to write and draw on the slide with a pen, your finger or the mouse. The ink bar above the slide has a Pen, a Highlighter and an Eraser, a choice of colors (or Other color) and a Width.
- The pen draws thinner where you press lightly. The highlighter lets the slide show through its color and stays under your pen strokes.
- What you draw on a slide while ink is on stays together as one ink object that grows to fit. To add to ink you drew earlier, select it before you choose Draw > Ink.
- The Eraser takes away each stroke it touches. If your pen has an eraser end, turn the pen over to erase.
- While your pen touches the screen, your hand resting on it draws nothing.
- Each stroke is one step of Edit > Undo.
- Press Escape or choose Done to stop. The ink you drew is selected, so you can move, resize, turn or flip it like any other object. Screen readers name it with its number of strokes, such as "Ink, 4 strokes".
- Ink stays ink in PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppsx and .potx), and ink from a PowerPoint file comes in as ink. Apps that have no ink show each stroke as a drawn line, and so does OpenDocument (.odp).
Convert ink to shapes: select ink and choose Format > Convert ink to shapes. Each line, arrow, rectangle, oval and triangle you drew becomes a neat shape in the same place, color and line width, which you can move, resize and format like any other shape. Ink that isn't one of these shapes stays as ink. Draw an arrow in one stroke, or draw the line and then a small V on its end. Shapes and lines drawn nearly level or upright are straightened. It is free and works in your browser, and Undo takes it back.
Convert ink to text: select your handwriting and choose JagAI > Convert ink to text. JagAI reads it and puts it in a text box where the ink was, as a suggestion: choose Keep in the JagAI panel to replace the ink, or Remove to get the ink back. The price shows first and is paid from your website's Platform Wallet by what it uses; nothing is charged if it fails. JagAI sees only a picture of the ink, with the words on the slide to help with names. Check what it wrote, since handwriting can be misread. Locked ink is never converted.
Tables, charts and diagrams
- Insert > Table adds a table. Format > Table adds and deletes rows and columns, merges cells, sets cell colors, a header row and a table style, sorts, and spreads rows and columns evenly.
- Insert > Chart > New chart adds a chart that keeps its own small data table. Insert > Chart > From VoVo Sheets adds a chart from one of your spreadsheets, linked to it. Format > Chart edits, updates or unlinks it, and Tools > Update linked charts updates them all.
- Insert > Diagram adds a list, process, cycle, hierarchy, relationship, matrix or pyramid diagram that grows as you type. Format > Convert to diagram turns a bulleted list into one. Diagrams download to PowerPoint as SmartArt.
Arrange objects
- Arrange > Order brings objects forward or sends them back. Align and Distribute line up the selected objects. Rotate turns or flips them.
- Arrange > Group (Ctrl+Alt+G) and Ungroup (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G). Resizing a group scales its text, borders and shadows together.
- Arrange > Lock keeps an object from moving.
- Arrange > Tidy this slide aligns the objects, evens their spacing and matches text sizes to the layout, in one undo step.
- Arrange > Selection pane lists every object on the slide to select, rename, hide, reorder or lock it.
- Arrange > Reading order sets the order screen readers and the keyboard follow on the slide.
- The View menu shows rulers and guides, turns snapping to guides, objects and the grid on or off, edits guides, and zooms (Ctrl+Alt+= and Ctrl+Alt+-).
Transitions and animations
- Slide > Transition sets how the slide comes in: Fade, Push, Wipe, Cover, Uncover, Split, Zoom, Flip or Smooth move. The Motion panel sets its duration and direction. Use this transition on every slide copies it to them all.
- Smooth move moves what the two slides share instead of changing the whole slide. Make a copy of a slide, move, resize or turn its objects, and give the copy Slide > Transition > Smooth move: each object on both slides glides to its new place, and the rest fade out or in. Pictures, shapes and text boxes with the same content are paired, nearest first. To pair two objects whose content differs, give both the same name starting with !! in the selection pane (such as !!logo). In the Motion panel, Moves sets what it pairs: Objects, Words (words a text box keeps move to their new places as its text changes) or Characters (each letter moves). PowerPoint files keep it; OpenDocument files get a fade instead.
- Select an object and choose Format > Add animation for an entrance, emphasis, exit or motion path, for the whole object or one paragraph at a time. In the Motion panel, start it on a click, with the previous one or after it, set its delay and duration, and drag to reorder. Format > Remove animations clears them.
- To start an animation when something on the slide is clicked, choose it in the Motion panel and set Start when clicked to that object, named as in Arrange > Selection pane (it can be the animated object itself). The list marks it with a pointer and says which object starts it. It plays only on a click on that object, or Enter or Space when the object has focus, never with the slide's own clicks or when the slide moves on by itself. Animations set to the same object play one click at a time, and after the last one a click plays them from the start again. A kiosk show plays them the same way, and the web slideshow and a page made with File > Publish to web show and hide what they show and hide on a click on the object. PowerPoint and OpenDocument files keep them, both ways.
- Slide > Preview transition and animations plays them on the stage, then what a click on each object plays.
Video, sound and the camera
- Insert > Video adds a video from your computer, the Hub, or YouTube or Vimeo. In the Playback panel set where it starts and ends, play it on its own, loop or mute it, choose its poster frame, fade it in and out, and add named bookmarks.
- Insert > Audio adds sound from your computer or the Hub, or Record audio straight onto the slide. It can play across slides, loop, and hide its icon while you present.
- Slide > Background video puts a short looping video behind the slide. An animated GIF can be a background picture.
- Insert > Camera adds a live camera frame that shows your camera while you present or record. Format > Camera shape changes its shape.
- A video or sound file can be up to 250 MB. Videos and sound you add are kept in your website's Hub.
Present
Slide > Present from the beginning (F5) or Present from this slide (Shift+F5), or the play button at the end of the toolbar, starts the slide show. Skipped and hidden slides are left out.
- Move on with the Right or Down arrow, Page Down, Space, Enter, N, a click or the mouse wheel; go back with Left, Up, Page Up, Backspace or P. On a touch screen, swipe.
- Home and End go to the first and last slide. Type a slide number and press Enter to go to it.
- B or . turns the screen black, and W or , turns it white; press again to come back.
- Escape ends the slide show.
- The bar at the bottom has Previous slide, Go to slide, Next slide, Speaker notes, Black screen, Pointer and pen, Presenter view, Co-presenter, Phone remote and End the slide show.
- Links on text, pictures and shapes work while you present, and a click on an object with an animation plays it.
- A zoom is a link while you present. Click it, tap it or press Enter on it, and its slide grows out of the zoom until it fills the screen. A section zoom then shows the slides of its section in order, leaving out hidden and skipped slides.
- With Return to zoom on, moving on from the zoomed slide, or from the last slide of the section, zooms back out to the slide with the zoom, and going back from the first of them does too. A zoom inside a zoomed section comes back to its own slide first. Going to another slide any other way (a link, Go to slide, a zoom without Return to zoom, the presenter view, a co-presenter or the phone remote) leaves the way back behind.
- When your device asks for reduced motion, a zoom is a short fade. Slide > Preview transition and animations plays a zoom you click during the preview, and with Return to zoom it goes back out.
- In a video, Enter or Space plays or pauses it, and Alt+End and Alt+Home go to the next and previous bookmark.
Presenter view, pen and timings
- Slide > Present with presenter view opens a second window with the slide, the next slide, your notes with their text size, a timer you can pause and reset, the clock and a slide list to jump to. Allow pop-up windows for your website the first time. Show your audience the slide show window, not this one; on a single screen the presenter view warns you.
- Pointer and pen gives you a laser pointer (Ctrl+L), a pen (Ctrl+P) and a highlighter (Ctrl+I); Ctrl+A goes back to the arrow, E erases all ink on the slide and Escape puts the tool down. When the show ends, someone who can edit the presentation can keep the ink on the slides as a picture.
- Slide > Rehearse timings times each slide as you practice and offers to keep the timings. Slide > Use slide timings moves the show on by itself.
- Slide > Kiosk show runs the show by itself and starts again after its last slide until someone stops it. Set a password to stop it if you like; after too many wrong tries it waits 30 seconds.
- Slide > Custom shows keeps named sets of slides in the order you choose, to present from the same menu.
- Co-presenter in the slide show hands the slides to someone who has the presentation open now. They move the slides until you take them back.
- Phone remote in the slide show shows a code. In the VoVo app, open the presentation in Files, choose Phone remote and type the code: your phone moves the slides, shows your notes and the timer, and works as a laser pointer. Its Questions tab, beside the speaker notes, runs audience questions and polls the same way as the presenter view's Questions panel, except that the code is shown on screen only from the computer. The phone stays awake while it is paired. People who can edit the presentation, and the person presenting, can pair a phone.
- Slide > Get ready to present offline keeps every picture, video, sound and font of the presentation in this tab, so the slide show runs without a connection while the tab stays open.
Present in a live room
Slide > Present in a live room shows the presentation as the stage of a Live Stream meeting room or broadcast on your website, following your slides, with no screen shared. Choose the room; your camera, voice and the room's chat stay as they are. Slides go to the room as pictures at the highest quality your Live Stream plan and screen allow. Presenting adds no charge of its own; while the room is live, Live Stream charges it at its own price per minute, shown before you start. Your website needs a Live Stream room you can present in, and a VoVo support session signed in to your admin can't present there.
Audience questions and polls
Choose Slide > Audience questions. Someone who can share the presentation turns on Let the audience ask questions and chooses who may ask and vote: signed-in people of your website, or anyone with the link or code. Questions stay off until you turn them on. A VoVo support session signed in to your admin can keep questions to your website's signed-in people or turn them off, but can't open them to anyone with the link or code.
Someone who can edit the presentation selects Start taking questions. People join on their own phone by scanning the QR code or by going to your website's /vovoslides/ask page and typing the six-letter code, then ask questions, vote for the ones they want answered and answer polls. Show the code on screen puts the code and QR code on the slide show. When you present into a Live Stream broadcast, a chat message that starts with Q: also sends a question to you while questions are open. People who are not signed in complete a quick check for each question and vote, and your website's form spam settings apply to every question. Questions keep only the name someone types, never an email address.
Run the questions from this panel, from the Questions panel of the presenter view, or from the Questions tab of the phone remote, which does everything here except put the code on screen: review questions before they show, pause new questions, mark a question answered, hide or remove it, ask a poll and close it, and show one question or poll full screen on the slide show. Press Escape to take it off the screen.
End questions deletes every question, poll and vote. To keep them, choose Keep in the deck first: they go on a hidden slide at the end of the presentation. A session also ends on its own 12 hours after it starts.
Translated subtitles: while questions are being taken, someone who edits the presentation can turn on Translated subtitles for the audience in Slide > Audience questions or in the Captions panel of the presenter view. Your JagAI captions then show on the questions page as you speak, and each person there reads them as spoken or in another language, in the text size they choose; their choice stays on their own phone. JagAI translates each caption line once for each language chosen, however many people chose it, and up to five languages at a time. What a minute costs for each language shows before you turn them on, and translations are paid from your website's Wallet by what they use. Captions in the language you speak reach the audience at no extra charge. The audience sees subtitles only while your captions are on. The words are kept about ten minutes so people who join late can catch up, are never saved with the presentation, and are deleted when you turn subtitles off or end the questions. If a translation can't be made, for example because the Wallet runs short, translated subtitles turn off and your captions keep going.
Record a presentation
Slide > Record presentation records your voice, and your camera if you like, slide by slide. Recording begins after a count of three, and each slide is saved with the presentation as you move on.
- Show your camera in a bubble, blur the background behind you, and turn on Teleprompter with my speaker notes to read your notes above the camera preview.
- Record one slide again without redoing the others.
- Slide > Recordings plays, renames and deletes recordings and copies a link to one. Only people who can open the presentation can watch, unless you choose Who can watch and add anyone who opens it with a link. A recording is never public by default. A VoVo support session can take link visitors off a recording but can't add them.
- Recordings are kept in your website's Hub and count toward your storage and the presentation's 250 MB.
- Recording works in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Allow the camera and microphone for the page when your browser asks.
Trim a recording by its transcript
In Slide > Recordings, choose Trim by transcript on a recording. The first time, choose Write down the recording: JagAI writes down what was said on each slide, word by word, so you can trim by deleting words. The cost shows first and is paid from your website's Wallet. Silence is never sent, and slides already written down aren't written down again.
- Select words with the pointer, or with the arrow keys while holding Shift, then press Delete or Backspace to cut them. Cut words are struck through with the time each cut takes out, and the pause before the next word goes with them. Do the same on cut words to bring them back, or choose Restore all. Cutting every word on a slide leaves that slide out of the copy.
- Preview plays the copy with every cut skipped, so you can hear it before you pay.
- Save a trimmed copy shows the price of cutting the slides with cuts first. It is paid from your website's Wallet when the copy starts and given back in full if it fails. Slides without cuts keep their recording as it is, and a copy that only leaves whole slides out is free.
- The copy appears in Recordings as a new recording when it is ready. Your original recording always stays as it is.
- Trim on a computer in Chrome, Edge or Firefox; the VoVo app does not trim, and Safari may not read a recording's sound to write it down.
JagAI
JagAI sits in the JagAI menu, the sparkle on the toolbar and the JagAI button in the title bar, which opens the JagAI panel. Website staff who can manage content can use it; each use is paid from the website's Platform Wallet by what it actually uses, with the cost shown before it runs. Owners and administrators can turn JagAI off or set a daily limit in JagAI > JagAI settings for this website. When JagAI is off for your account or website, its menu and button don't appear.
The price before each use: every paid JagAI use shows what it will likely cost and the most it can cost before anything is sent, a single edit such as Rewrite or Shorten included. Choose Run to go on or Cancel to send nothing. For single edits the dialog has Don't ask again today: tick it and single JagAI edits run without asking until tomorrow, in this browser. Pictures, captions, rehearsal feedback and bigger jobs that run in several parts always show their price. Where JagAI is never charged, no price is asked for.
JagAI > Make slides with JagAI makes slides from a description, from one VoVo Docs document, from up to five files on your website that you can open, or from cells of a VoVo Sheets spreadsheet. You can also follow the style of another presentation, attach up to four pictures and say who the audience is, the tone and how many slides you want. JagAI plans first: slide titles, what each slide covers and which files it uses, and it may ask about the audience and length. Change, add, move or remove slides in the plan, then choose Make these slides. The slides arrive as a preview marked as made with JagAI; choose the ones to keep and they go in after the current slide. Undo takes them out again.
Research the web first: tick this box in Make slides with JagAI for slides that draw on the web. Type the words to look up (the description is used when you leave them empty) and, if you like, up to three web pages to read, one on each line. VoVo looks the words up on Wikipedia, in your language, and reads the pages you add, at no charge. It then shows the pages it found and the price of JagAI reading them; pages that could not be read are left out. JagAI notes the facts your slides can use, each with the page it comes from, and plans with them. Each slide's speaker notes link the pages it uses, and with Add a slide that lists the sources (on by default) the last slide lists them all. Check every fact before you present it.
The rest of the JagAI menu:
- Add a slide, Rewrite (clearer, more formal, friendlier or simpler) and Shorten for the text you select, up to 6,000 characters at once.
- Make bullets into a diagram and Suggest layouts for this slide.
- Convert ink to text reads handwriting you drew on a slide and puts it in a text box in its place.
- Make a picture, saved to your Hub, and Change this picture: remove the background (it becomes plain white), extend the background, make it larger and sharper, or change it as you say.
- Share with the VoVo picture library in Make a picture is checked, so the picture joins the shared VoVo picture library once VoVo has checked it, and other VoVo websites can use it. They never see that your website made it. Uncheck it before you choose Continue to keep the picture only in your Hub. A changed picture from Change this picture never joins. In your website admin, The File Hub > Pictures lists what your website shared and lets you stop sharing a picture.
- Draw a shape or icon, also in Insert > Shape or icon from JagAI: describe a shape, an icon or a simple diagram, such as a rocket or a funnel with three steps, and choose Filled or Outline. JagAI draws it on the slide in your presentation's theme colors as ordinary shapes, grouped when there are several, that you can move, resize, recolor or ungroup; choosing another theme recolors it. Words and labels are left for you to add.
- Write alt text for every picture: JagAI looks at each picture, with its Hub details and the words on its slide.
- Write speaker notes and Tidy speaker notes.
- Summarize the deck, Ask about this deck (answers link to the slides they come from) and Translate a copy of the deck.
- Deck instructions saves your audience, tone and number of slides so you set them once. Website administrators can save instructions for everyone and keep JagAI to each presentation's own theme layouts, colors and fonts.
Everything JagAI changes arrives as a suggestion marked JagAI for you to keep or remove.
Captions while presenting: turn on Slide > JagAI captions while presenting, the CC button in the slide show or the Captions panel of the presenter view. JagAI writes what you say under the slide a few seconds at a time. The price of a minute shows before you agree; silence is not sent, and captions start with each slide show until you turn them off.
Rehearse with JagAI feedback (in the Slide and JagAI menus) listens while you practice for up to 30 minutes and gives feedback on your pace, filler words, pauses and time on each slide. It also flags reading a slide word for word and any words your website asks rehearsals to watch for. Speak for at least 10 seconds. The recording is never kept; only the report is, with the presentation, and only you can see it. The cost shows first.
VoVo data and linked slides
- Insert > VoVo data puts a live number or list from your website's Forms, Shop, Membership, Events or Accounting on a slide, where your website has them. Each person sees only what they are allowed to see in that feature, and the data is read when the slide is shown, never saved in the presentation. Sign in to VoVo as yourself to add or see it. Format > Edit VoVo data changes what it shows.
- Insert > Linked slides places slides from another presentation on this website after the current slide. They stay as their source was at their last update. Slide > Update linked slide brings in the source's changes, and Unlink slide keeps it as an ordinary slide.
- Tools > Linked objects lists every linked chart, linked slide and VoVo data frame, with Update, Update all and a check that each source can still be seen.
Accessibility check
Tools > Accessibility check lists what could make the presentation hard to follow with a screen reader, a keyboard or low vision: pictures and charts without alt text, slides without a title or with the same title, a reading order that needs a look, text that is hard to read on its real background, and small text. Go to shows each one, and where the fix is clear a button makes it in one undo step. The list checks again after each fix.
In every slide show, screen readers hear each slide as it comes in, read in the slide's reading order. Pictures marked decorative are skipped.
Screen reader announcements
With a screen reader you hear when someone joins or leaves the presentation, and when someone else edits near you, never more than every few seconds. Nothing is announced about your own changes. Tools > Announce collaborators turns this off or on.
Comments
Select a slide or an object and choose Insert > Comment (Ctrl+Alt+M) to start a discussion. Type @ to mention someone who can comment on the presentation; they get a notice, and you can assign the comment to them. View > Comments (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A) opens the Comments panel, where you can reply, edit or delete your own comments, resolve or reopen a thread, and show all, open or your own.
Suggest changes
Choose Editing, Suggesting or Viewing from the mode switch or View > Mode. In Suggesting mode your text changes appear as suggestions for an editor to accept or reject; Tools > Accept all suggestions in this text and Reject all suggestions in this text decide them for one text box. People who can comment can also suggest.
Share
Share a presentation from File > Share or the Share button.
- Add people from your website's staff and members as viewers, commenters or editors, and choose whether to notify them.
- Choose who else can open it: only the people added, everyone on your website's staff, or everyone with a membership on your website.
- Make links with a role, an optional password and an end date, and turn a link off at any time.
- In the sharing settings, choose whether editors can change who has access, and whether viewers and commenters can download, print and copy.
- Give someone an end date with Access ends; their access ends at the end of that day.
- The owner can choose Make owner to hand the presentation to someone on the website's staff. The old owner stays on as an editor.
- People who can share see Access requests here and choose Approve or Deny.
- The owner and editors see Views: select Show views for each link's opens, the number of people who opened it, the average time per open, how many reached the last slide, and the time on each slide as a table with bars, for the last 90 days. Download CSV saves one row for each browser on each link, named only by a short label such as Viewer 3F9A2C. Editors who can't change who has access still open File > Share to see views. In the VoVo app, download the CSV on a computer.
Speaker notes show to anyone who can open the presentation, including people who open it with a link.
Views count each time someone opens the presentation through a link. Each browser counts as one person, by a random name it keeps for this presentation alone, so the same person on another presentation is never matched. VoVo keeps no name, email address, account, IP address or browser details for a view, even when the person is signed in. Time counts only while the presentation is on screen, in the editor or in a slide show. Opens by the owner and editors signed in as themselves, and support sessions, never count. Views are deleted after 90 days and are never in a backup. A page published to the web is not counted.
Ask for access
If you open a link to a presentation you can't open, sign in, choose the access you want, add a message if you like, and select Ask for access. People who can share the presentation decide.
Approvals and locks
- File > Approvals asks up to 10 staff members who can open the presentation to approve it. You can lock the presentation while it waits. One rejection ends the request, and a change to the presentation resets approvals already given.
- File > Lock presentation lets the owner stop everyone from editing, commenting or suggesting until the owner unlocks it.
Activity, notices and assignments
- Tools > Activity dashboard shows editors who opened the presentation as themselves, and when. You choose whether your own views show.
- Tools > Notification settings chooses the comment notices you get for this presentation.
- Tools > Notification rules has Tell me when someone else changes this presentation and, for editors, Tell me when someone opens this presentation. Opens count only people who open it signed in as themselves and keep their views shown, at most once a day each; opens through a link are never counted. Notices reach your bell and the VoVo app a few minutes later.
- Tools > Assigned to me lists the comments assigned to you on this website.
Version history
Open File > Version history > See version history (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H) to see earlier versions grouped by day, each with the people who edited it and a picture of its slides. Turn off Show changes to see a version plain, or show only named versions.
You can name the current version or any version, restore a version (the version you have now stays in the history), or make a copy of a version as a new presentation. After a restore, the Files page shows the presentation's icon in place of its picture until someone who can edit it opens it again.
Versions you name stay as long as the presentation exists, up to 100 of them. Automatic versions are all kept for 30 days, then one for each day until they are a year old, then one for each week, up to 1,000. The newest version is always kept. Versions count toward your website's plan storage.
Download, copy and print
File > Download saves the presentation as:
- PowerPoint (.pptx), a PowerPoint show that opens as a slide show (.ppsx) or a PowerPoint template (.potx);
- OpenDocument (.odp);
- PDF: slides, notes pages, or handouts with 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9 slides on each page, with options to include skipped slides and comments, one page for each animation step, and tags for screen readers;
- plain text with every slide's text and notes (.txt);
- a web slideshow that plays in any browser (.html, zipped);
- a PNG or JPEG picture or an SVG drawing of the current slide, or every slide as pictures (.zip);
- an animated GIF of the slides you choose, with their transitions and builds, transparent where a slide has no background;
- a video (.mp4).
Hidden slides are left out of downloads.
Zooms stay zooms in PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppsx and .potx): PowerPoint plays them, and apps without zooms show the zoom's picture with a link to its slide. OpenDocument (.odp) has no zooms, so a zoom becomes its picture with a click that goes to its slide. In a PDF, a click on a zoom goes to the page of its slide when the PDF has that slide. Pictures, GIFs, the web slideshow and video show a zoom as a picture of its slide. When someone who can edit the presentation changes a slide a zoom shows, VoVo Slides updates the zoom's picture a few seconds later, so downloads show the slide as it is now.
3D models stay 3D models in PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppsx and .potx), turned and zoomed as they are on the slide: PowerPoint versions that show 3D models let people turn them, and other apps show the model's picture. OpenDocument (.odp), PDFs, pictures, GIFs, the web slideshow and video show the model's picture as it is turned on the slide. Opening a PowerPoint file brings its 3D models with it. A 3D model VoVo Slides can't read (one that isn't a binary glTF 2.0 file, is larger than 50 MB or uses files outside it) is left out, its picture stays where the file had one, and the import report says so.
Video: choose 720p, 1080p, 2K or 4K and the seconds for each slide and build. The dialog shows the price before anything runs; a video costs at least $3.00 and is paid from your website's Wallet, which is refunded in full if the video can't be made. The video has no sound and is kept privately in your website's Hub when it is ready; you are told when. Where your website can't make videos, the dialog says so and nothing is charged. A website makes one video at a time: while one is being made, start the next when it is ready. A video that takes longer than VoVo allows is stopped and not charged, and the website makes no more videos that day. If VoVo Slides leaves the website, or you can no longer make videos there, before the video is made, it is not made and not charged. A VoVo support session signed in to your admin can't start a paid video.
File > Download > Make the download smaller (or Tools > Deck size) shows how much each slide's pictures, video and sound weigh and offers to shrink them before you download.
File > Make a copy makes a new presentation. File > Print (Ctrl+P) prints slides, notes pages or handouts.
If the owner turned off downloading, printing and copying for viewers and commenters, those choices don't appear for them.
Publish to web
File > Publish to web makes a page anyone with its address can watch. Website staff who can share the presentation can publish it. The page leaves out comments, speaker notes, names and version history, and leaves out hidden and skipped slides.
- Choose how it plays: move to the next slide when the viewer clicks or every few seconds, start playing as soon as it opens, and start again after the last slide.
- Choose what happens when the presentation changes: Show the changes on the page, or Keep the page as it is until it is updated.
- Copy the Link, the Embed code, or the Website page block, which you paste into any page in your website's page builder to show the presentation there.
- Only the owner can tick Let search engines show this page. It's off by default.
- Stop publishing takes the page, every embed and every block down at once. Publishing again gives a new address.
Send to another part of your website
File > Send to starts a draft from the presentation in another part of your website: Blog post draft, Email draft, Newsletter draft, Attach to a lesson (a new lesson draft in one of your courses, with the presentation on it) or Attach to an event session (a new session draft in one of your events). Each choice shows only when your website has that feature and you may start drafts there. The draft opens in a new tab; nothing is saved until you review it and save it there, and what you save is a draft: nothing is published or sent.
In the VoVo app
Open VoVo Slides from your website in the VoVo app. The app shows its own screens for VoVo Slides, built from what your website describes, so there is nothing extra to download. These screens are for your website's staff.
- Files has Recent, My files, Shared with me, Starred and Trash, with search and folders.
- New presentation starts one. Import a file turns a PowerPoint (PPTX, PPTM, a PPSX show or an older PPT) or OpenDocument (ODP) file from your phone, up to 100 MB, into a new presentation after you agree that the import may not match exactly.
- On each presentation: Download as PowerPoint, a PowerPoint show or template, OpenDocument or plain text, to save it or share it with another app; Present; Phone remote; Share; Comments; Version history; Rename; Move; Star or Remove star; Move to trash; and Restore from the trash.
- Share, Comments and Version history work as they do on your website, including access requests, suggestions and named versions.
- Present plays the slide show on your phone: swipe between slides, with your notes.
Tapping a presentation opens the editor inside the app at the width of your phone. JagAI works there, with the same cost shown before it runs. The first time a page needs your microphone or camera, for captions, rehearsal feedback, recording or a live camera frame, the app asks you to allow it. While your phone is paired as a phone remote, it stays awake.
On the central admin
Central super admins can also use VoVo Slides on the VoVo central admin. Presentations there belong to VoVo, not to a website, and you share them only with other central super admins. Publishing, links for anyone and website templates are for websites only, so the central admin does not offer them. AI on the central admin is SubAI, not JagAI: it works with text only, at no charge, so making and changing pictures, converting ink to text, captions, translated subtitles, rehearsal feedback and trimming recordings by their transcript are not offered there, and alt text is written from each picture's Hub details and slide words without looking at the picture. The VoVo app shows website presentations only.
Working offline
If you lose your connection in a presentation you already have open, you can keep editing slides and speaker notes, present, and use the presenter view and kiosk shows. Your changes are kept on this device and save when you are back online. Pictures, video, sound and fonts the tab has already shown stay available for the slide show; Slide > Get ready to present offline loads all of them first.
If the page reloads while you are offline, or you open the presentation again from your browser's history, VoVo Slides opens it read only from the copy kept on this device, so you can keep reading and presenting. This works for a presentation you opened in the same browser while you were online and signed in, for a limited time after you were last online, and not in a support session or the VoVo app. Changes you made earlier stay on this device. When the connection is back, the editor opens again by itself, saves them, and you can edit again. Pictures, video and sound the tab held before it reloaded are not kept on the device, so slides show the ones your browser still has.
Anything that needs your website says so and waits: adding pictures, video and sound, downloads, sharing, version history, JagAI, captions, the phone remote, audience questions, a live room, linked slides and charts, VoVo data and video export. Nothing paid is queued for later.
If someone restores the presentation to an earlier copy while you have unsaved changes, your changes are not added to it. They stay on this device, and staff can choose Make a copy with them to get a copy of the presentation with your changes in it, or discard them.
How saving works
There is no Save button. VoVo saves as you work and keeps unsent changes on this device until they are saved. The title bar shows where things stand:
- Saving: you made a change that your website hasn't confirmed yet.
- All changes saved: every change is stored on your website.
- Offline, changes kept on this device: VoVo can't reach your website right now. Your changes stay in this browser and are sent when the connection returns.
If you close the tab before your changes are saved, open the same presentation again in the same browser on the same device while you are online. VoVo finds the unsent changes it kept and saves them.
A few limits apply:
- Opening a presentation needs a connection. Changes are kept on the device only for a presentation that was already open.
- Changes kept on one device can't be seen on another device until they are saved.
- Some browsers, such as a private or incognito window, can't keep changes on the device. Keep the tab open until it shows All changes saved.
- Signing out of VoVo in this browser deletes the copies kept on this device, so the next person on it cannot read them. If changes are still waiting to be sent, your browser asks before you leave the page: stay until it shows All changes saved, then sign out. Another account that opens an editor in the same browser removes what an earlier account left there.
If you have the same presentation open in more than one window or on more than one device, each one shows the saved changes from the others as you work, and the slide list shows who is on which slide.
If saving stops
When VoVo can't save a change, the title bar says why:
- Can't save. You no longer have edit access. Your access to this presentation changed. Ask its owner or a website administrator.
- Can't save. Your session has ended; sign in again. Sign in to your website admin again, then open the presentation again.
- Can't save. This file is locked, so nobody can edit it until it is unlocked. Ask the owner to unlock it.
- This editor is out of date. Reload the page. VoVo Slides was updated while the presentation was open. Reload the page to continue.
Who can see your presentations
A presentation belongs to one website. It doesn't appear when you work in your other websites, and other VoVo customers can't see it, search for it or open it. Inside your website, a presentation you create opens only for you until you share it. People you share a presentation with who aren't on your website staff find it under Shared presentations in their account on your website. A presentation published to the web can be watched by anyone with its address until publishing stops. When someone opens a presentation with a link, VoVo keeps how long each slide showed and whether the last slide showed, under a random name that browser keeps for that presentation alone, never their name, email address, account, IP address or browser details; only the owner and editors see these views, and they are deleted after 90 days.
Backups and restores
A full backup of your website includes VoVo Slides. It keeps:
- every presentation and folder, with its latest content, including changes made since the last saved version;
- version history, the original files you imported and their import reports;
- comments, replies, suggestions and the changes JagAI made for people;
- who each presentation is shared with by name, access requests, approvals and locks, assignments, and notification rules and settings;
- each person's stars, trash, Recent and Shared with me choices, and the views the Activity dashboard shows;
- audience question settings, rehearsal reports and the list of recordings;
- your website's templates, saved themes, the words rehearsals watch for, and each person's preferences.
Pictures, video, sound and recordings that presentations keep in your website's Hub are backed up with the Hub.
Some things are never in a backup:
- Share links. A restored presentation comes back without the links made for it, so make a new link for anyone who still needs one. A restore never brings back a link that was turned off.
- Pages published to the web. A restore never brings back a page whose publishing was stopped. If a page you need is no longer published, publish it again; publishing again gives a new address.
- Audience questions, polls and votes of a live session.
- Search text. It is made again from each restored presentation, so for a short time after a restore, search may find a presentation only by its name.
- Views on links. They are kept for 90 days and a restore never brings them back.
When your website is restored from a backup:
- Anyone who has the presentation open sees that it was restored to an earlier copy, and the page loads the restored presentation. A slide show that is running reloads when it ends.
- Changes that were not saved yet in someone's browser are never added to the restored presentation. They stay on that device for your website's staff to copy or discard.
- Nothing runs again: no notice, email, blog post or newsletter draft, no poll reopens, no video is made again and no JagAI request runs again.
Restoring an earlier version from Version history is different: it changes only that presentation, keeps the version you had in the history, and keeps its links.
If VoVo Slides is turned off or removed
Nothing deletes your presentations: not turning VoVo Slides off for a website, not its access ending on a website (for example when a payment for it is reversed), and not uninstalling it with your files kept.
- While VoVo Slides is off or its access has ended on a website, its Files page and presentations still open there for your website's staff, read only: you can read and download every presentation, but you can't create, change, share or comment on one.
- Members, share links and pages published to the web don't open while VoVo Slides is off.
- Everything opens for editing again, unchanged, when VoVo Slides is active on that website again.
- Uninstalling VoVo Slides from a website keeps its presentations in your website's data, but they don't open there until VoVo Slides is installed on it again. Before you uninstall, download your website's data export: it holds every presentation as a PPTX file.
Keyboard shortcuts
Help > Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+/, or Cmd+/ on a Mac) lists the shortcuts you can use at that moment, and Alt+/ (Option+/ on a Mac) finds any command by name. On some Mac keyboards the F keys need Fn.
Anywhere in the editor
| Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Alt+/ | Option+/ | Search the menus |
| Ctrl+/ | Cmd+/ | Show the keyboard shortcuts |
| F6 or Ctrl+F6 | F6 or Cmd+F6 | Move to the next part of the window |
| Shift+F6 or Ctrl+Shift+F6 | Shift+F6 or Cmd+Shift+F6 | Move to the previous part of the window |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Cmd+Shift+F | Hide or show the menus |
| Ctrl+O | Cmd+O | Open Files in a new tab |
| Ctrl+P | Cmd+P | |
| Ctrl+Alt+M | Cmd+Option+M | Add a comment |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A | Cmd+Option+Shift+A | Open the comments |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H | Cmd+Option+Shift+H | Open version history |
| Escape | Escape | Close a menu, panel or dialog |
Edit
| Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl+Z | Cmd+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z | Cmd+Y or Cmd+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V | Cmd+X, Cmd+C, Cmd+V | Cut, copy, paste |
| Ctrl+D | Cmd+D | Duplicate the selected object, or the slide |
| Ctrl+A | Cmd+A | Select all |
| Delete | Delete | Delete the selected object, or the slide |
Views and slides
| Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z | Cmd+Option+Shift+Z | Editing mode |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X | Cmd+Option+Shift+X | Suggesting mode |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V | Cmd+Option+Shift+V | Viewing mode |
| Ctrl+Alt+1 | Cmd+Option+1 | Grid view |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F | Cmd+Option+Shift+F | Go to the slide list |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C | Cmd+Option+Shift+C | Go to the slide |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S | Cmd+Option+Shift+S | Go to the speaker notes |
| Page Down, Page Up | Page Down, Page Up | Next or previous slide |
| Ctrl+Alt+=, Ctrl+Alt+- | Cmd+Option+=, Cmd+Option+- | Zoom in or out |
| Ctrl+M | Cmd+M | New slide |
| Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down | Cmd+Up, Cmd+Down | Move the slide up or down |
| F5 | F5 | Present from the beginning |
| Shift+F5 | Shift+F5 | Present from this slide |
On a Mac, Cmd+M may minimize the browser window, so use Insert > New slide if it does.
Text
| Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U | Cmd+B, Cmd+I, Cmd+U | Bold, italic, underline |
| Alt+Shift+5 or Ctrl+Shift+X | Option+Shift+5 or Cmd+Shift+X | Strikethrough |
| Ctrl+. | Cmd+. | Superscript |
| Ctrl+, | Cmd+, | Subscript |
| Ctrl+Shift+. | Cmd+Shift+. | Make the text bigger |
| Ctrl+Shift+, | Cmd+Shift+, | Make the text smaller |
| Shift+F3 | Shift+F3 | Change the capitalization |
| Ctrl+Alt+C | Cmd+Option+C | Copy the formatting |
| Ctrl+Alt+V | Cmd+Option+V | Paste the formatting |
| Ctrl+\ | Cmd+\ | Clear formatting |
| Ctrl+Shift+L, E, R or J | Cmd+Shift+L, E, R or J | Align left, center, right or justified |
| Ctrl+], Ctrl+[ | Cmd+], Cmd+[ | Increase or decrease the indent |
| Ctrl+Shift+7 | Cmd+Shift+7 | Numbered list |
| Ctrl+Shift+8 | Cmd+Shift+8 | Bulleted list |
| Ctrl+Shift+9 | Cmd+Shift+9 | Checklist |
| Ctrl+Alt+Enter | Cmd+Option+Return | Check or uncheck a checklist item |
| Ctrl+K | Cmd+K | Insert or change a link |
| Alt+= | Option+= | Equation |
Objects on the slide
| Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Tab, Shift+Tab | Tab, Shift+Tab | Select the next or previous object in reading order |
| Enter | Return | Type in the selected object, or turn the selected 3D model |
| Escape | Escape | Stop typing |
| Arrow keys | Arrow keys | Move the selected object; hold Shift for bigger steps |
| Alt+Right, Alt+Left | Option+Right, Option+Left | Make it wider or narrower |
| Alt+Down, Alt+Up | Option+Down, Option+Up | Make it taller or shorter |
| Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down | Cmd+Up, Cmd+Down | Bring forward or send backward |
| Ctrl+Shift+Up, Ctrl+Shift+Down | Cmd+Shift+Up, Cmd+Shift+Down | Bring to front or send to back |
| Ctrl+Alt+G | Cmd+Option+G | Group |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G | Cmd+Option+Shift+G | Ungroup |
| Arrow keys, +, -, Home | Arrow keys, +, -, Home | While a 3D model is being turned: turn it, zoom it, face it front |
Slide show
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Right, Down, Page Down, Space, Enter or N | Next slide or build |
| Left, Up, Page Up, Backspace or P | Previous slide or build |
| Home, End | First or last slide |
| A number, then Enter | Go to that slide |
| B or . | Black screen, or back |
| W or , | White screen, or back |
| Ctrl+L (Cmd+L on a Mac) | Laser pointer |
| Ctrl+P (Cmd+P) | Pen |
| Ctrl+I (Cmd+I) | Highlighter |
| Ctrl+A (Cmd+A) | Back to the arrow |
| E | Erase all ink on the slide |
| Enter or Space on a video | Play or pause it |
| Alt+End, Alt+Home | Next or previous bookmark in a video |
| Arrow keys, + and - on a 3D model | Turn or zoom it |
| Escape | Put the pen down, or end the slide show |
The presenter view takes the same slide show keys. On a Mac, Cmd+L and Cmd+P may be kept by the browser; use Pointer and pen in the slide show bar instead.
Get Help
Help > Self Help and Help > FAQ in a presentation open this guide and its questions. Everyone on your website's staff can read them.
If something isn't working, the person who bought VoVo Slides for this website can open a support ticket from any of these:
- Help > Get help in a presentation;
- Get help at the top of the Files page;
- Get help beside VoVo Slides in Marketplace > Installed modules, or beside the purchase in My purchases, in your website admin.
Each opens Product support in your website admin, with VoVo Slides chosen. Write a subject and the details, and select Open ticket. Say what you did, what you expected and what happened instead. Don't paste presentation content or passwords into a ticket. If you don't see Get help, ask the person who bought VoVo Slides for your website to open the ticket. For account, billing or sign-in problems, use VoVo platform support.