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Google Apps Script lets you programmatically create and modify Google Slides
presentations using the
Slides service.
You can use Apps Script to add custom menus,
dialogs, and sidebars to Slides. You
can also integrate Slides with other
Google services like Calendar, Drive, and
Gmail.
Get started
Apps Script includes a
built-in service
that lets you programmatically create, read, and edit Google Slides.
Apps Script can interact with Google Slides in two ways:
Any script can create a new presentation or access an existing presentation
if the user has the appropriate access permissions for that presentation.
A script can be bound to a presentation, which
provides the script more direct access to the Slides user interface for
that script. To create a bound script, select Extensions>Apps Script
from within Google Slides.
Custom menus and user interfaces
You can customize Google Slides by adding custom menus, dialog boxes, and
sidebars. To learn the basics of creating menus, see the
guide to menus. To learn about customizing the
content of a dialog box, see the
guide to HTML service.
If you're planning to publish your custom interface as part of an
add-on, follow the
style guide for consistency with the
style and layout of the Google Slides editor.
add-ons for Google Slides
add-ons are specially packaged Apps Script
projects that run inside Google Slides and can be installed
from the Google Slides add-on store. If you've developed a script for Google Slides and want to share it with the world, Apps Script lets you
publish your script as an
add-on so other users can install it from the add-on store.
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