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Connect Google Drive to Google Slides

Slides decks start life as copies of a template in Drive. Connecting the two lets you generate proposals, personalised pitch decks, certificates and translated decks from a template, saved straight into the right Drive folder.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Drive and Google Slides

Decks and PDFs generated from your Slides templates and saved to Drive. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Turn call notes into a proposal deck in the client's Drive folder

Submit your notes after a sales call and a proposal deck is written, built from your Slides template, saved with a PDF in the client's Drive folder, and the link is emailed to you.

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On a schedule

Make a personalised pitch deck for each prospect in a CSV

Drop a prospect list in Drive and each prospect gets their own copy of your pitch deck with their name, company and pain point filled in.

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Every 15 minutes

Combine images in a Drive folder into one PDF

Images you add to your Drive 'To PDF' folder are placed one per page and saved as a single PDF in the same folder.

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The moment it happens

Create a PDF certificate in Drive for everyone who passes

Everyone who scores 80% or more on your quiz gets a certificate made from your Slides template, saved as a PDF in Drive and emailed to them.

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Every 15 minutesAI

Translate any deck you drop in a Drive folder

Decks you put in your Drive 'Translate' folder are copied and every piece of text is translated into Spanish, keeping the original layout.

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Every 15 minutesAI

Turn a meeting transcript into a summary deck

When a meeting transcript lands in your Drive folder, a 6-slide summary deck is drafted from your template next to it.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Drive and Google Slides, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Drive and Google Slides automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Drive and Google Slides in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only add a pricing slide when the deal value is over $10,000, and remove the case study slide for existing customers.

Name each deck "Client - Month Year" and move last month's deck to an archive folder.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Drive and Google Slides

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes looks for new files or requests, or a schedule runs monthly.
  • The script copies a Google Slides template, replaces placeholders and adds images.
  • The finished deck, and a PDF if wanted, is saved to the Drive folder you choose.

  • Sales teams making proposals

    A template deck is copied and filled with the client's name, pricing and dates, then saved in their Drive folder. Proposals take minutes.

  • Trainers creating certificates

    A certificate template is filled for each attendee and saved as PDF to Drive. Sending is easy.

  • Marketers turning images into decks

    Images in a Drive folder are placed into slides in order. Visual decks build themselves.

  • Managers producing monthly reviews

    A review deck is copied each month with updated numbers and saved to the archive folder. Reporting is consistent.

More apps

Google Drive, Google Slides and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Decks from rows

For each new row in my Google Sheet, copy my Slides template, fill in the columns and save it to the client's Drive folder.

Email the PDF

After each deck is created in Drive, export it as PDF and email it from Gmail to the address on the row.

Proposal from a deal

When a HubSpot deal reaches "Proposal", copy my Slides template with the deal details and save it in Drive.

Setup

Connect Google Drive and Google Slides once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Google Drive

File storage

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Google Drive API.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.
  3. Create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Drive and enter the client ID and secret, then connect.
  5. Prefer a service account? Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create one and add a JSON key, share your folders or a Shared Drive with its email, and save the key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

Google Slides

Presentations

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the Google Slides API in your project. Enable the Google Drive API too if the automation copies template decks.
  2. Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create a service account and add a JSON key.
  3. Share the template presentation, or the folder it's in, with the service account's email as Editor.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the JSON key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Google Drive and Google Slides

Do I need to change my template?
Only to add placeholders like {{client}} or {{date}} where text should be filled in. Fonts, layouts and images stay as you designed them.
Who owns the copies?
The Google account you connect, so they appear in your Drive and follow its sharing settings.
Can it make PDFs?
Yes. Any deck can be exported to PDF and saved alongside it in Drive.
Will it overwrite my template?
No. Every run works on a fresh copy and leaves the template untouched.
Can it share the deck with the client?
Yes. The script can share the Drive file with an email address as viewer or commenter.
Can it insert images from Drive?
Yes. Images can be placed into slides from Drive files.
Can it make one deck from many files?
Yes. It can add a slide per file in a folder.

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