In Google Slides, I want to hide or remove the left thumbnail panel, as shown below.
In Microsoft Powerpoint, you can drag the left panel to be closed, but I can't figure out how to do this in Google Slides. Can anyone help?
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Sign up to join this communityIn Google Slides, I want to hide or remove the left thumbnail panel, as shown below.
In Microsoft Powerpoint, you can drag the left panel to be closed, but I can't figure out how to do this in Google Slides. Can anyone help?
I had this same question and it seems like Google still doesn't provide the option. If you really need to get rid of it though, you can use this hack as a solution as of May 5, 2020.
Open inspect element from menu bar -> Go to div id = "docs-editor-container" -> div id = "docs-editor" -> table class = "two-panel-layout" -> tbody -> tr -> Delete td class = "filmstrip".
This is the result. Now you can have a much wider view of your slide.
I tweaked the bookmarklet code from this blog (I target the <td>
by class instead of its content by ID). Normally I would give you a JavaScript link to drag to your bookmark bar; but I can't work out how to share such a link in a StackExchange solution.
You can edit an existing bookmark & paste this as the URL:
javascript:(function() {var e=document.getElementsByClassName('filmstrip')[0];e.style.display=(e.style.display!='none')?'none':'table-cell';})();
Chrome wanted it to be URL-encoded:
javascript:(function() %7Bvar e%3Ddocument.getElementsByClassName(%27filmstrip%27)%5B0%5D%3Be.style.display%3D(e.style.display!%3D%27none%27)%3F%27none%27:%27table-cell%27%3B%7D)()%3B
I'm afraid there isn't a built-in feature to hide the thumbnail panel as you can see in the View menu: