Annotating Slides

You can annotate your slides with freehand drawings, shapes, arrows etc.


Once you have your slides posted into your Event you can annotate using the toolbar below your slides.


image highlighting the toolbar, slide selector and slide control toolbar


View Toolbar

a image screenshot of annotating toolbar

The View toolbar allows you to simply annotate your slides.


Options 4 and 5 allow you to add to any text in your slide. Use options 6 and 7 if you want to annotate non-text elements.


  1. Select Arrow - allows you to select your annotations
  2. Drag Selector - allows you to move and drag the slide around when zoomed in.
  3. Add Text - adds your own text to the slide
  4. Text Markup Menu - select text to underline, squiggly underline or strikethrough.
  5. Highlight Text - allows you to highlight text
  6. Free Hand Line - adds a line anywhere on your slide
  7. Hand Highlight - adds a highlight anywhere on your slide
  8. Shapes Menu - use the Shapes menu to add shapes to your slides
  9. Eraser - allows you to delete your annotations.
  10. Style Menu- allows you to change the colour of text, highlights, underlines, shapes, and freehand lines.
  11. Undo - undoes the last action; you can keep clicking to undo multiple edits
  12. Redo - redoes the last action you undid.

Note- Annotations are persistent and remain visible across Reading View, in the Slide Selector panel, and when copying/exporting notes.


Slide Selector


Use the Slide Selector to view and scroll through your slide deck.


Slide Control Toolbar


Use the Slide Control toolbar to adjust slide size, search slides, import multiple slide files and view slides in full screen.

an image of the slide control toolbar

  1. Zoom out - Use the controls to make your slides smaller on screen
  2. Zoom in- Use the controls to make your slides bigger on screen
  3. Search Slides - Find slides by searching for keywords.
  4. Maximise Slides - Use to view slides in full screen
  5. Slide Options Menu- where you can delete, replace or import additional slides. https://help.genio.co/article/175-replace-delete-or-add-more-slides

Note - When using option 4, you can still access all annotating tools.

Important - when importing multiple slides, files must be in PowerPoint or PDF format and not exceed 200MB.

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