Google Slides

Google Slides is a dynamic cloud-based presentation application that allows users to create, edit, collaborate on, and present slideshows in real-time. As part of Google's productivity suite, Google Slides offers a flexible platform for designing engaging presentations, collaborating with others, and sharing content seamlessly through the cloud.

Learn how to integrate the Google Slides tools in Sim to effortlessly manage presentations as part of your automated workflows. With Sim, you can read, write, create, and update Google Slides presentations directly through your agents and automated processes, making it easy to deliver up-to-date information, generate custom reports, or produce branded decks programmatically.

With Google Slides, you can:

• Create and edit presentations: Design visually appealing slides with themes, layouts, and multimedia content
• Collaborate in real-time: Work simultaneously with teammates, comment, assign tasks, and receive live feedback on presentations
• Present anywhere: Display presentations online or offline, share links, or publish to the web
• Add images and rich content: Insert images, graphics, charts, and videos to make your presentations engaging
• Integrate with other services: Connect seamlessly with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and other third-party tools
• Access from any device: Use Google Slides on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices for maximum flexibility

In Sim, the Google Slides integration enables your agents to interact directly with presentation files programmatically. Automate tasks like reading slide content, inserting new slides or images, replacing text throughout a deck, generating new presentations, and retrieving slide thumbnails. This empowers you to scale content creation, keep presentations up-to-date, and embed them into automated document workflows. By connecting Sim with Google Slides, you facilitate AI-driven presentation management—making it easy to generate, update, or extract information from presentations without manual effort.

Usage Instructions

Build, edit, and export branded Google Slides presentations end-to-end. Copy a template, replace text and image tokens, embed Sheets charts, style text and shapes with brand fonts and colors, manage tables and layouts, group elements, run atomic batch updates, and export to PDF or PPTX.

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google_slides_read

Read content from a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_write

Write or update content in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_create

Create a new Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_replace_all_text

Find and replace all occurrences of text throughout a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_add_slide

Add a new slide to a Google Slides presentation with a specified layout

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google_slides_add_image

Insert an image into a specific slide in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_get_thumbnail

Generate a thumbnail image of a specific slide in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_get_page

Get detailed information about a specific slide/page in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_delete_object

Delete a page element (shape, image, table, etc.) or an entire slide from a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_duplicate_object

Duplicate an object (slide, shape, image, table, etc.) in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_update_slides_position

Move one or more slides to a new position in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_create_table

Create a new table on a slide in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_create_shape

Create a shape (rectangle, ellipse, text box, arrow, etc.) on a slide in a Google Slides presentation

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google_slides_insert_text

Insert text into a shape or table cell in a Google Slides presentation. Use this to add text to text boxes, shapes, or table cells.

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google_slides_update_text_style

Update the styling of text in a shape or table cell (bold, italic, font family, font size, foreground/background color, link, etc.). Only the fields you set are applied.

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google_slides_update_paragraph_style

Update paragraph styling — alignment, line spacing, indents, space above/below — for text in a shape or table cell.

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google_slides_delete_text

Delete text from a shape or table cell. Use range type ALL to clear all text, or FIXED_RANGE / FROM_START_INDEX to delete a specific span.

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google_slides_create_paragraph_bullets

Convert paragraphs in a shape or table cell into a bulleted or numbered list using a Google Slides bullet preset.

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google_slides_delete_paragraph_bullets

Remove bullets/numbering from paragraphs in a shape or table cell.

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google_slides_replace_all_shapes_with_image

Find every shape whose text matches the given token (e.g. {{cover-image}}) and replace it with an image, preserving the shape

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google_slides_replace_image

Replace the source of an existing image with a new image URL, preserving the image

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google_slides_update_image_properties

Update image properties — brightness, contrast, transparency, crop, outline, link — on an existing image.

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google_slides_update_shape_properties

Update a shape

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google_slides_update_page_properties

Update slide/page background — solid color or stretched picture — and other page properties.

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google_slides_update_slide_properties

Update slide-specific properties such as whether the slide is skipped during presentation.

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google_slides_update_page_element_alt_text

Set the accessibility title and/or description (alt text) of a page element such as an image, shape, or group.

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google_slides_update_page_element_transform

Move, resize, scale, or shear a page element. Translate is specified in points; applyMode controls whether the transform is absolute (default) or relative (multiplied with the current transform).

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google_slides_update_page_elements_z_order

Bring elements to front, send to back, or step them one layer forward/backward.

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google_slides_group_objects

Group two or more page elements on the same slide into a single object group.

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google_slides_ungroup_objects

Ungroup one or more object groups, releasing their children back to the slide.

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google_slides_create_line

Create a line or connector on a slide.

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google_slides_update_line_properties

Update line appearance — color, weight, dash style, arrows, link.

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google_slides_update_line_category

Change a connector line

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google_slides_reroute_line

Reroute a connector line so it efficiently connects its endpoint shapes — useful after moving the shapes the line connects.

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google_slides_insert_table_rows

Insert one or more rows into a table, above or below a reference cell.

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google_slides_insert_table_columns

Insert one or more columns into a table, left or right of a reference cell.

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google_slides_delete_table_row

Delete the row containing the reference cell from a table.

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google_slides_delete_table_column

Delete the column containing the reference cell from a table.

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google_slides_merge_table_cells

Merge a rectangular range of table cells into a single cell. The range starts at (rowIndex, columnIndex) and covers rowSpan × columnSpan cells.

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google_slides_unmerge_table_cells

Unmerge any merged cells within the given table range.

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google_slides_update_table_cell_properties

Update background fill and content alignment for a range of table cells.

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google_slides_update_table_border_properties

Update border color, weight, and dash style for a position (e.g. ALL, INNER, OUTER) in a table range.

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google_slides_update_table_column_properties

Update column widths and other column-level table properties.

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google_slides_update_table_row_properties

Update minimum row heights and other row-level table properties.

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google_slides_create_sheets_chart

Embed a chart from a Google Sheets spreadsheet onto a slide. LINKED charts can be refreshed; NOT_LINKED_IMAGE inserts a static image of the chart.

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google_slides_refresh_sheets_chart

Refresh an embedded linked Sheets chart so it reflects the latest spreadsheet data.

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google_slides_replace_all_shapes_with_sheets_chart

Find every shape matching a text token (e.g. {{revenue-chart}}) and replace each with the same embedded Sheets chart, preserving the shape

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google_slides_create_video

Embed a YouTube or Google Drive video on a slide.

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google_slides_update_video_properties

Update video playback options (autoPlay, mute, start/end) and outline.

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google_slides_batch_update

Run a raw Slides API batchUpdate with a list of Request objects. Use this when the higher-level tools do not cover an operation, or to bundle multiple operations into a single atomic batch (all-or-nothing).

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google_slides_copy_presentation

Copy a template presentation in Drive to a new file. Use this before merging data so the original template is never modified.

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google_slides_export_presentation

Export a presentation to PDF, PPTX, ODP, TXT, PNG, JPEG, or SVG via the Drive export endpoint. Stores the exported file as an execution file when execution context is available.

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