A word cloud allows you to visualize a grouping of frequently used words within a body of text. You can then detect the major themes within the text. Google Slides does not have a built-in option for creating word clouds. This tutorial shows you how to create a word cloud in Google Slides using an online word cloud generator.
2 Steps to creating a word cloud in Google Slides
- Generate a word cloud online
- Insert the word cloud image into a Google Slide
Let us begin.
Step #1: Generate a Word Cloud Online
Open an online word cloud generator such as WordArt.com.
Click the Create button.
Enter the title of the word cloud in the title box and click the Import button.
Copy and paste your selection of words into the input area of the dialog box that appears.
You can also import words from a text file or from the web.
Click the Import words button.
Click the Visualize button to generate the word cloud.
You can customize the shape, font, layout, and style of the word cloud.
Use the options in the bottom left of the online app.
Click the Download button to download the word cloud image.
We recommend downloading it as a Standard PNG.
The image is downloaded by the web browser into the Downloads folder of your computer.
Step #2: Insert the Word Cloud Image Into a Google Slide
Open your Google Slides Presentation.
Navigate to the slide in which you want to insert the word cloud image.
Click on the slide.
From the main menu, click Insert and hover your mouse over Image.
From the fly-out menu, choose Upload from computer.
Navigate to the Downloads folder where the word cloud image is stored.
Select the word cloud image in the Open dialog box.
Click the Open button.
The word cloud image is inserted into your Google Slide.
Conclusion
Google Slides does not have a built-in option for creating word clouds. This tutorial showed you how an online word cloud generator can create a word cloud for you to insert into Google Slides.