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How to insert a pdf in google slides.

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Method 1: insert pdf pages as images in google slides, method 2: link to your pdf in google slides, key takeaways.

To add a PDF in Google Slides, convert your PDF pages to images and use Insert > Image > Upload From Computer to add those images to your slides. Alternatively, upload your PDF to a cloud drive and use Insert > Link to add a link to your PDF.

Google Slides doesn't allow you to embed PDFs in your presentations, but there are a couple of workarounds to display your PDF content in your slides. You can use your PDF pages as images, or upload your PDF somewhere online and link to it from your slides. Here's how to use both methods.

Related: 7 Google Slides Features for Eye-Catching Presentations

One way to display your PDF's content in your Google Slides presentation is by converting each PDF page to an image format (say JPG ), and adding that image to your slides .

We've already written guides on converting PDF to JPG on both Windows and Mac systems. Follow the steps in those guides to get an image file for each page of your PDF. Regardless of which platform you use, though, Adobe's PDF-to-JPG conversion tool will work well.

Once you've done that, you can begin editing your presentation by launching your preferred desktop web browser, accessing Google Slides , and opening your presentation.

On the presentation page, in the left sidebar, click the slide in which you want to add a PDF page. Then, from Google Slides' menu bar at the top, choose Insert > Image > Upload From Computer.

On the "Open" window, access the folder containing your PDF pages as images, and double-click an image to add it to your slide .

In your selected slide, you'll see your image (which comes from a page in your PDF file). You can reposition the image by dragging it around the slide, and you can resize it by dragging the handlers around it.

Follow the above steps for each PDF page you want to add to your presentation, and you'll be all set.

Related: How to Crop an Image Into a Shape in Google Slides

Another way to add your PDF in your Google Slides presentation is to upload your PDF somewhere online and then link to it in your slide . However, this won't make the PDF readable directly in your slideshow. Instead, when you're presenting your slideshow and want to access the PDF, you'll click the link to the PDF and the file will open.

To upload your PDF, you have several cloud storage options available. But since you're already using Google Slides, it makes sense to use Google Drive as your PDF storage provider (though you're free to choose any other provider if you want). We'll go for Google Drive in this guide.

To upload your PDF file, first, open your desktop web browser and launch the Google Drive website . Sign in to your account, then in the left sidebar, click New > File Upload.

In the window that opens, navigate to your PDF file and double-click it. Once your file is uploaded, right-click it and choose "Get Link."

In the window that opens, at the bottom, click "Copy Link."

You now have your PDF's shareable link copied to your clipboard. You'll add this link to an item in your presentation.

To do that, access your Google Slides presentation. Then, open the slide where you want to add the link for your PDF. On the slide, choose an image or text you want to add a link to.

While your item is selected, from Google Slides' menu bar, choose Insert > Link.

In the open box, right-click and select "Paste." Then, choose "Apply."

And you've successfully added a link to your PDF file in your slide. Clicking this link will open your PDF.

And you're all set.

Related: How to Insert a PDF Into a Google Doc

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How to enable the better PDF Viewer in Google Chrome

Google Chrome may be used to display PDF documents; the feature is included natively in the web browser, which means that it does not require third-party tools or extensions to function.

PDF viewing functionality is basic and while that is fine for going through a PDF document, it lacks when it comes to everything else.

Google has been working on an update for the integrated PDF Viewer, and it has been overdue, considering that web browsers such as Firefox provide a much better experience when it comes to viewing PDFs in the browser.

Right now, Chrome users may use the viewer to zoom in and out, print the document, and change its orientation. Compared to Firefox, which has a table of contents, automatic zooming, or quick jump functionality, it is lacking.

The Chrome PDF viewer update will change that. It is currently available behind a flag in all recent versions of the web browser, including Chrome Stable. The update introduces a table of content, two-page view option, quick jump support, and more.

Enable Chrome's new PDF Viewer

• Load chrome://flags/ in the browser's address bar. Alternatively, load chrome://flags/#pdf-viewer-update directly and skip the second step.
• Search for PDF Viewer.
• The PDF Viewer Update description: When enabled, the PDF viewer will display an updated UI with new options and features.
• It is available for all desktop versions of Google Chrome.
• Restart Google Chrome.

The new PDF viewer is active immediately in the Chrome web browser. You will notice the difference right away thanks to the new table of contents sidebar that it displays when it is activated.

A click on the menu icon on the right side of the toolbar displays the new "two page view" option that you may activate to display two sheets side by side.

Chrome Canary users may enable PDF Viewer Presentation Mode furthermore to unlock a full screen PDF viewing mode. Just use the shortcut F11 in the PDF viewer in Google Chrome to toggle the feature.

Full mode hides the browser UI when it is activated.

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Dear ghacks.net administrator, You always provide clear explanations and step-by-step instructions.

i want “Document Properties…” just like in firefox (pdf.js)

Use the pdf.js extension on the chrome webstore, or create your own extension using the PDF.js code (hosted by mozilla) on github.

The typical PDF being viewed by most is short and has no ToC. Generally, the less the viewer does, the more purpose-driven it is (lighter, quicker… good things). Larger and longer PDFs usually get downloaded for later viewing, typically not in the browser. I mostly see no need for more features in the browser’s built-in viewer.

The free version of Above Reader DC has more features and is faster than any of the viewers that are offered by the browser makers!

I no longer support Adobe after forcing their creative cloud bloated garbage. They also banning legit countries, dropping support for Windows 7 so quickly, claiming using old versions of their software will you get sued. Terrible company. I wish Adobe will be gone in a few years and Macromedia came back.

“Google has been working on an update for the integrated PDF Viewer, and it has been overdo,…”

The word you want is “overdue.”

OMG. Yoo must bee reely prowd ov yerself Mister Brownshit!

Exact SUMATRA

I genuinely hope that he was joking when he said “web browsers such as Firefox provide a much better experience when it comes to viewing PDFs in the browser.” I guess you don’t have much credibility to lose when you don’t know how to spell the word “overdue,” however. Firefox has had the worst .PDF viewer in the business for a long time, and I’m pretty sure that it hasn’t been updated or improved in any way in close to ten years now.

@Browningate:

What’s this about “credibility” and misspelling a word? Martin is a native German speaker (hence the occasional typos), and good spelling is not a criterion for IT expertise anyway.

Firefox used to have a pretty crummy PDF viewer, but over the last couple of years it’s been improved significantly in terms of compatibility and functionality. You can’t just assume if you haven’t actually tried it in the last “ten years”…

F11 works to hide the browser interface for those w/out canary :-) (this applies to Brave too)

In fact, there’s nothing in the current new, updated Chrome PDF Viewer which wasn’t available in the old one. I don’t understand this article.

Chrome PDF Viewer has had table of contents for ages now…

Happy Christmas to you all! :D

I continue to be pleased with the free version of Foxit Reader. Browsers are trying to be everything to everyone; I call it bloat.

I think that Edge Chromium’s PDF reader is by now the best one, amazing good speed, stability, speech with non errors, multiple printable options and more. EdgeC is better than Chrome imho. ;]

Edge is a data gathering tool for Microsoft, much like Windows 10. That already totally disqualifies it for anyone who cares one iota…

And Google Chrome isn’t the same, just for a different company? Your response is pointless unless you point to an alternative that avoids this while providing the desired functionality.

@Captain Browncoat, Hmmm:

You two must be new here… Iron Heart is not the type to recommend Chrome instead of Edge. He’s a big Brave fan, so data collection would be minimal.

why the fuck would anyone want to get to know you guys?

@ShintoPlasm

Small addition: Even though Brave is currently my primary browser, if one needs Chromium and the privacy between the user and the parent company of the browser is of concern, Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium, or Bromite would be equally valid picks. :)

@Captain Browncoat

Chrome is about as bad, Edge takes it a step further by assigning a hardware identifier which enables Microsoft to link the gathered data to you even across installatione, not even Google Chrome does that:

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/brave-ranked-the-most-private-browser-while-microsoft-edge-and-yandex-the-least-private-due-to-privacy-invading-telemetry/

> Your response is pointless unless you point to an alternative that avoids this while providing the desired functionality.

Browsers that do not spy on you: Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave, Bromite.

Happy now? I don’t know if there PDF reader is the same as the one in Edge, but a PDF reader in a browser which would be worse than any standalone PDF reader anyway, hardly just jusifies feeding the Microsoft kraken even more than you have to. In my opinion, people should avoid that if possible, but in the end, as the old saying goes: Use whatever you want.

And Chrome doesn’t collect data? What kind of world do you live in?

Perhaps you should not only think of data-collecting browsers like Chrome, Edge, Opera… What about Vivaldi, Brave, Ungoogled Chromium etc.?

Chrome is not the only alternative to Edge even though you seem to think that.

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Chrome is getting a presentation mode for the built-in PDF viewer

December 15, 2020 By Robby Payne Leave a Comment

I’ll file this under things I’ve never considered wanting, but am still very glad to see in the works. Apparently, there are users out there who use PDFs in presentations and do so with enough regularity that the Chrome team is hard at work on implementing a new PDF viewer option for what is simply being called presentation mode. The idea is simple enough, I suppose, and this new feature is going to have all sorts of tools for users that want to offer up hardwired or cast-enabled presentations on a big screen.

From the commit shown above, presentation mode for the Chrome PDF viewer will handle the sorts of navigation and zooming controls you want for basic presentations while disabling the parts you really don’t need. Getting rid of scroll bars, accidental pinch-zooming, and forcing content to fill the screen as much as possible are all things you need when flipping through items during a meeting.

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From the looks of things, they are still working out kinks with extra zooming functions like CTRL+/- and rotation with CTRL+[ or ] , however, so there is work to be done still. From what we can tell, most of the changes around this feature are already merged, so we’re likely not too far out on this addition to the PDF viewer in Chrome.

Once the kinks are all worked out and this becomes a regular part of the upgraded PDF viewer for Chrome, I could see this being a very handy tool for in-person meetings on an external screen and more near-term as a way for users to show page-by-page presentations of PDFs in virtual meetings like Zoom or Google Meet. Love them or hate them, PDFs are an important part of our digital usage these days. They already provide a great way to send read-only documents that are rich in graphics to other users, and it looks like they’ll be easier to use as presentation slides via Chrome in the near future.

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Display pdf in presentation mode on a chromebook?

Is there any way to display a pdf in fullscreen presentation mode on a chromebook? I have crouton installed but I want to give a presentation without boot into crouton. I found one chrome extension that almost worked, but it must not have used the gpu or something to render the pdf---it was too slow to look good during a presentation for complex pdf slides.

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The three dots button in the built-in browser editor has an option to Present, which brings up your PDF full screen. If you are trying to present the mentioned PDF in Gallery (that is, if you opened it in Files instead of off a PDF link within Chrome), this option doesn't show up until you select "Open in PDF editor".

This PDF viewer allows for presentation mode. I believe it's the same PDF viewer used in Firefox. Be sure to let it be able to access file URLs (through chrome://extensions ) if you are presenting a local file.

Alternatively, you can try using the default PDF viewer. Select 'Fit to page' (using the lower left button). Afterwards, you can use the left and right keys on your keyboard to navigate slides. Unfortunately, the default PDF viewer doesn't allow one to disable scrolling, but it may be worth a try.

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Two ways to convert a PDF to Google Slides for presentation.

Presenting a PDF document isn’t always easy. Learn two ways to convert your PDF files into a more accessible Google Slides presentation.

Sometimes we’re sent a file and need to convert a PDF to Google Slides for a presentation. Google Slides is a handy tool for presenting slideshows. All you need to give a presentation is a computer and an internet connection — there’s no need to carry USB drives or memory sticks. But what if you need to present a PDF document?

You could display the PDF as is by sharing your screen or using a projector, but scrolling through its pages doesn’t make for a great presentation. You can, however, turn PDFs into an easy-to-use Google slideshow, even if you can’t embed the PDFs directly. Read on to learn about two easy ways you can convert PDF files into an engaging Google Slides presentation.

Why convert a PDF to Google Slides?

While a PDF file is one of the most universally viewable, shareable, and presentable file types, Google Slides are a great way to collaborate with teammates and edit presentations on the go. When presenting a project, you may want to use slides to display notes and visuals in an engaging way. Google Slides can be accessed from anywhere, on any device, as long as you are logged in to your Google account.

Will I lose formatting when I convert a PDF to Google Slides?

While you cannot directly convert a PDF to Google Slides, you can turn it into either an image file or a PowerPoint to change it into a Google Slides presentation from there. You can easily embed image files into Google Slides. When changing a PDF to an image file, you should not lose formatting.

The other option is to convert your PDF to a PowerPoint and then download it to convert it to a Google Slides presentation. This may change the formatting, but you can always go back and make adjustments as needed. Read on to learn how to convert a PDF to Google Slides.

Option 1 — convert the PDF to an image file and insert it.

One way to convert a PDF to Google slides is to turn it into an image first. You can then insert that image into Google Slides. It’s easy to convert PDF files into JPG images with Adobe Acrobat online services. Follow these steps:

• Navigate to Acrobat online services and launch the Convert PDF to JPG tool .
• Drag and drop a PDF file into the converter or click Select A File to locate it.
• Choose your settings and start the conversion.
• Download the ZIP file containing your converted images.

You can then unpack the images and embed them into Google Slides. Create a new presentation and add the images into slides by selecting Insert > Image > Upload From Computer.

Option 2 — convert the PDF to PowerPoint first.

The image conversion method works, but it can be very slow and tedious. It takes a lot of clicking to import each image file individually into new slides. Fortunately, there’s a faster method.

You can convert your PDF document into a PowerPoint presentation. Google Slides is cross-compatible with PowerPoint’s PPT documents and allows you to import the slides into a new slideshow. Here’s what to do to convert your PDFs:

• Navigate to the Convert PDF to PowerPoint tool in Acrobat online services.
• Upload your file by dragging and dropping it into the converter or by clicking Select A File.
• After the converter finishes, download your new PowerPoint document.

Now that you have your PowerPoint document downloaded, you will need to convert it to Google Slides.

Import your newly converted PDF to Google Slides from PPT.

Once you have your PowerPoint document, launch Google Slides and create a new presentation.

From there, follow these instructions:

• Select File > Import Slides > Upload to locate and import your PPT file.
• Select the slides you want, and Google Slides will automatically add them to your presentation.

PDF documents may not always translate perfectly into presentation slides — especially if the original pages are oriented vertically. An additional bonus of importing slides from a PowerPoint file is that you can edit them. You can easily add or remove text, insert pictures, or change the formatting directly in Google Slides to fix formatting issues, update outdated information, or just make them look nicer.

Do more with your PDFs, presentations, and Google products.

Now that you’ve learned how to convert a PDF to Google Slides, we have other guides for working with Google products and Microsoft PowerPoint. Check them out below:

• Does your co-worker prefer PowerPoint? Convert Google Slides to PPT before sending the file.
• Edit a PDF in Google Drive .
• Learn how to separate pages in Google Docs .
• Export images from PPT files .
• Insert a PDF into PowerPoint .

With all the tools you need in one place and accessibility from anywhere on any device, you have the power to make your documents presentation-ready in a snap. Discover what more you can do with Acrobat online services to convert, edit, and sign PDF documents.

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Enhance PDF Presentations with full-screen mode and page transitions

Full-screen mode allows you to set PDFs for Presentations, filling the entire screen and hiding Acrobat's menu bar, toolbar, and window controls.

You can establish consistent initial views for your documents or collections of documents.

Page transitions can be added to create visual effects as viewers navigate through the document.

Set initial view

When users open your PDF document or Portfolio, they see the initial view. You can s et the initial view to your desired magnification level, page, and layout.

In Acrobat Pro, Action wizards enable changing default settings for multiple documents.

To set the initial view:

• From the dialog, select the Initial View tab.
• Navigation tab - Determines which panels are displayed in the navigation pane.
• Page layout - Determines how the document pages are arranged.
• Magnification - Sets the zoom level for the document after it's opened. The default uses the magnification set by the user.
• Open to page - Specifies the page that appears when the document opens.
• Window Options - Determines how the window adjusts in the screen area when a user opens the document. These options apply to the document window itself in relationship to the screen area of the user’s monitor.
• Interface Options - Determines which parts of the interface—the menu bar, the toolbars, and the window controls—are hidden.
• Select Open in Full Screen mode  check box.
• For the Navigation tab, select Page Only .
• For Page layout, select Single Page .
• Set  Open to page  to the page where you want to start the presentation.
• Select Ok .
• Save and reopen the file to view the effects.

In full-screen mode, users can press the "Esc" key to exit if their preferences permit it. However, users can only execute commands or choose tools using keyboard shortcuts. To maintain functionality, consider setting up page actions within the document.

Two factors can alter page layout and magnification:

Selecting Default for the Magnification and Page Layout options will follow the user's settings in the Page Display preferences.

If you hide the menu bar and toolbars, users can only use commands or select tools with keyboard shortcuts. Consider creating page actions that temporarily conceal interface controls while the page is visible.  See Add actions with page thumbnails .

Add page transitions

You can create engaging effects when advancing pages by using page transitions.  Acrobat Pro's Actions wizard allows you to set page transitions for multiple documents.

From the All tools menu, select Organize pages > Page transitions .

Or select the desired page thumbnails in the Page thumbnails panel, then choose Page transitions from the Options menu.

In the Page   transitions dialog, pick a transition effect from the Transition menu. These effects are identical to the ones in the Full Screen preferences.

Select the direction and speed of the transition effect. Options vary based on the transition.

Select Auto Flip and enter the time interval in seconds for automatic page turning. If this option isn't selected, users must turn pages using keyboard commands or the mouse.

Specify the Page Range to which the transitions should apply.

If the 'Ignore All Transitions in the Full Screen' setting is enabled in Document preferences, users won't see the page transitions.  Acrobat also supports PowerPoint's page transitions and bullet fly-ins.

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How to present a pdf like a powerpoint.

PDF (Portable Document Format) is one of the most popular file formats. It is mainly used for academic papers, journals, handbooks, company contracts, study materials, etc. Sometimes, you may need to present a PDF file to others.

In this case, PDF slide shows are a good presentation mode. If you have ever used PowerPoint, you will be familiar with slideshows. In a PPT file, each page is called a slide. If you start the slide show from the beginning, all slides will be presented in full screen one by one. You can click to switch to the next slide.

How to present a PDF in a slide show mode? You can use the following ways.

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Way 1. MiniTool PDF Editor

MiniTool PDF Editor is a PDF editing tool available on Windows. You can use it to write and draw on a PDF; add notes, images, shapes, stamps, attachments, watermarks, and links to PDF; split/merge/compress PDFs, convert PDF to various file formats (and reverse); convert images to different formats; and so on.

You can also this software to present a PDF. It offers many PDF presentation modes, including the PDF slideshow mode. How to present a PDF slideshow using MiniTool PDF Editor? Here is the guide:

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• Download and install MiniTool PDF Editor.
• Open a PDF file with MiniTool PDF Editor.
• Go to the View tab and click Slideshow . The PDF will then be presented in the slide show mode.

In the slideshow mode, you can click to switch to the next PDF page. If you want to go back to the first page or the previous page, you can right-click on the PDF page and choose the corresponding option from the context menu. The context menu also offers the Exit Slide option.

In addition, you can even edit PDF in the slideshow mode. Select a text and right-click. A context menu will appear. You can choose to copy, highlight, underline, or strikethrough the text. You can also choose to edit PDF. If you choose this option, you can modify the content of the PDF. This is very useful if you find some content is wrong when you present a PDF.

In the PDF slideshow mode, you can also edit images. For example, you can rotate, resize, replace, or delete images; bring the image to the front or send it to the back; and change the transparency of the image.

Way 2. The Preview App

On Mac, you can use the Preview app to present PDF slide shows. Here is the guide:

• In the Preview app on your Mac, open a PDF.
• Choose View > Slideshow . The pages of the PDF are displayed in the slideshow. Use the controls at the bottom of the screen to move from page to page or end the slideshow.

Other PDF Presentation Modes

In addition to the PDF slide shows, MiniTool PDF Editor also offers other PDF presentation modes. For example:

• Full Screen: In this mode, PDF pages fill the entire screen. The menu bar, toolbar, and window controls are hidden. Note that browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge can also present a PDF in full screen, but the PDF page doesn’t fill the entire screen. There are gray areas on the sides of the PDF page.
• Zoom in or out: If you want to show details of a PDF, you can zoom in on the PDF. Of course, you can also zoom out the PDF. You can use the Plus and Minus buttons at the top to zoom in or out of the PDF. You can even enter the scaling ratio manually. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge can also zoom in or out a PDF but no custom zoom is offered.
• Two-Page View: Display two pages side by side. Google Chrome also has this feature but Microsoft Edge doesn’t.
• Rotate the view clockwise or counterclockwise: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge also have this feature.
• Simple Mode: Present the PDF in the minimized window and hide other components.
• Reverse View: View PDF pages in reverse order.

According to your condition, you can choose one from the above PDF presentation modes. Note that Google Chrome and Microsoft don’t have the slideshow mode. If you want to present PDF slide shows, MiniTool PDF Editor is the best choice on Windows.

This post shows you how to create and edit a PDF. In this post, you can find all guides that you need for editing a PDF file.

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Bottom Line

PDF slide shows are a way to present a PDF like a PPT. This way is useful when you present a PDF to others. This post introduces 2 ways of presenting PDF slide shows. Do you know other ways? Share them with us in the following comment zone.

In addition, if you have encountered problems when using MiniTool PDF Editor, feel free to contact us via [email protected] . We will get back to you as soon as possible.

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How to Export Your Google Slides Presentation as a PDF File

After you’re done creating a presentation, you might need a PDF version of it so that you can open it in any computer, regardless of the presentation software it has or whether there’s an internet connection available or not. Or, simply, you just want to have a printed version of your presentation with the speaker notes. In this tutorial you'll learn how to convert a Google Slides presentation to a PDF file , and there are two ways to do so.

Exporting without Speaker Notes, One Slide per Page

Exporting with speaker notes or with multiple slides per page.

• Click File → Download as → PDF document (.pdf).
• Click File → Print settings and preview.
• A new menu will appear at the top of the screen. From there you can choose the number of slides per page, whether to include the hidden slides and/or the background, and the page orientation (horizontal or vertical). Please note that if you want to include speaker notes, you’ll only be able to choose one slide per page and a vertical orientation.
• Click Download as PDF or Print.

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W hile your presentation shows up thoroughly on a laptop, TV, monitor, or projector, the default landscape orientation doesn't play well on smartphones. If you plan to give a quick presentation on a smartphone or want to add a touch of novelty to stand out, use the steps below to use vertical orientation in Google Slides.

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You shouldn't create and complete a presentation in landscape mode and change the orientation at the end. It may mess up the graphical elements of your presentation. Follow the steps below to use vertical orientation in Google Slides.

• Navigate to Google Slides on the web and open a presentation you want to edit.
• Click File at the top and select Page setup .
• Expand the top menu and find the default options. Standard 4:3 is ideal for viewing your presentation on a tablet. Widescreen 16:9 is suitable for viewing a slide on a TV, projector, or monitor. Widescreen 16:10 is the preferred dimension for viewing a presentation on modern laptops with taller displays.
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• You can check the entire site in a vertical orientation.

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