How to Copy From Google Slides to Google Docs Easily 2026

Start from Google Slides' home screen, where your recent presentations are listed as thumbnails alongside the option to start a blank one. Find the deck that has the content you need and open it. If you're working from a template-based deck, like a business proposal or pitch built off one of Google's starter templates, the layout and styling will carry over differently than plain text would, which is worth knowing before you decide what to copy.

Inside the presentation, click into a text box to select specific text, or click once on a shape or image to select it as a whole element. In the example here, the headline text on a slide is highlighted and ready to copy, with the text box's selection handles visible around it. You can select a single text box, a whole slide's worth of elements, or an entire slide from the filmstrip on the left, depending on how much you want to bring over.

With your selection made, copy it, then switch to the Google Doc where you want it to appear. Click to place your cursor at the exact spot in the text where the content should land before pasting, since pasted slide content drops in as a block and shifts everything below it.

When you paste, Google Docs gives you more than one option depending on what you copied. Plain text pastes as editable text that matches (or can be reformatted to match) your document's styling. A shape, image, or full slide instead offers a choice between pasting as a static image or establishing a live link back to the source presentation.

Choosing Link to presentation keeps the pasted slide connected to its source. From then on, whenever you edit that slide in Google Slides, an Update button appears next to the pasted image inside your document, and one click pulls in the latest version. This is the option worth using any time the deck is still a work in progress, since it saves you from manually re-copying every time something changes.

Once the slide is in your document, use the image's formatting options to set text wrap and margins so it sits cleanly within your paragraphs instead of overlapping them. When the document is finished and you don't want any more surprise updates, break the link from the image's options menu to lock it in as a permanent, independent graphic.