Google Slides setup · step 1 of 3

Set up SlideShortcuts for Google Slides.

Three steps, about two minutes, and the last one is optional. Keep this tab open: it ticks each step off as you go.

Add the extension to Chrome

It brings the keyboard shortcuts to every deck you open in this Chrome.

Chrome will list the sites the extension works on: docs.google.com for your decks and slideshortcuts.com for your license (older versions also list api.lemonsqueezy.com). That's expected: choose Add extension.

Chrome says the extension isn't trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing? Choose Continue to install. Chrome says that about every publisher new to the Chrome Web Store, whatever the extension does.

Add to Chrome Opens the Chrome Web Store in a new tab. Chrome may then open a SlideShortcuts tab of its own: come back to this one, and it ticks step 1.

Already added it?

Company Chrome or Workspace managed? Send IT slideshortcuts.com/it

Chrome extension added

Then enter your license key. From 1 November 2026 the shortcuts need a SlideShortcuts license. In Chrome, click the puzzle-piece Extensions icon next to the address bar, then SlideShortcuts, and enter your email and key there.

No key yet? Start the free trial: 7 days free, then $9.99 a month plus any tax, card required. The key comes by email straight away.

Try your first shortcut in a practice deck

Align Left, with nothing more than the extension.

Get your own copy of the practice deck. Its first exercise is Align Left: select two shapes and press ⌃⌘← on a Mac, or Ctrl+Alt+← on Windows. They line up on the left.

Open my practice deck Google asks to make a copy in your Drive. It's yours to keep or delete.

This page can't see that shortcut from here, so tell it:

Nothing happens in the deck? From 1 November the shortcuts need your license key: see step 1.

Done.

Optional: add the free Slides add-on.

19 more commands, such as Make Same Size and Swap.

19 more commands, such as Make Same Size and Swap. About a minute, one Google permission screen.

Commands like these run in a Google add-on because a Chrome extension can't see which shapes you selected. Every other shortcut works without it.

Click Install on the Google page.
Choose the Google account you open your decks with. Signed in to two? Pick the one your decks live in.
Google lists the presentation you run it in, plus your name and email address, which it gives every Marketplace add-on. SlideShortcuts only ever uses the presentation: not your Drive, your other decks or your email. Tick the boxes, then Continue.

Add to Google Slides