How to Share a Presentation on Google Meet

To run a Google Meet screen share presentation without showing your notes, click Present now at the bottom of the call, then choose A tab (for Google Slides) or A window (for PowerPoint or Keynote) instead of Your entire screen. Meet sends only that surface, so the room sees your slides and the rest of your desktop stays yours.

That's the core move. Below: how to set up each option, where to keep your speaker notes, the catch on a single-screen laptop, and a faster path if you present a lot.

Present now: tab, window, or whole screen

Look at the bottom bar of your call and click Present now. Google hands you three choices, and the one you pick decides how much of your machine the room can see.

A tab. Best when your slides run in Chrome, like Google Slides. Meet shares one browser tab and switches focus to it. Audio passes through cleanly, which matters if your deck has video.
A window. Best for PowerPoint or Keynote. Meet shares that one app window and nothing else. Your notes, your inbox, and any other app stay off the call.
Your entire screen. Shares everything on that display. Skip it for presentations. The second you switch apps to check a message, the room sees it.

Pick the tab or the window. That single choice is what keeps a stray email or a notes document out of view. (Google walks through the same steps in its Meet present help.)

Keep your speaker notes on your side

Sharing one tab or window already hides most of your desktop. Speaker notes are the next piece, and every slide app has a presenter mode built for exactly this.

Google Slides: Open the dropdown next to the present button and choose Presenter view. Your notes and a next-slide preview open in a separate window that only you see. Share the slides tab to Meet and keep the presenter window on your side.
PowerPoint: Turn on Use Presenter View under the Slide Show tab. Your script shows in the presenter window. Share the slideshow window to Meet.
Keynote: Switch on the presenter display and set it to show notes. The audience view stays clean.

For the cross-app version of this, here's how to share your screen on Zoom without showing your notes. The logic carries straight over to Meet.

Want your notes near the camera instead of buried at the bottom of the screen?

Presenter view parks your script at the bottom of the display, far from the lens, so every glance pulls your eyes down and away from the room. An invisible notes overlay like Oculta puts them somewhere else entirely: up by the camera, and out of the capture.

To run a Google Meet screen share presentation without showing your notes, click Present now at the bottom of the call, then choose A tab (for Google Slides) or A window (for PowerPoint or Keynote) instead of Your entire screen. Meet sends only that surface, so the room sees your slides and the rest of your desktop stays yours.

That's the core move. Below: how to set up each option, where to keep your speaker notes, the catch on a single-screen laptop, and a faster path if you present a lot.

Present now: tab, window, or whole screen

Look at the bottom bar of your call and click Present now. Google hands you three choices, and the one you pick decides how much of your machine the room can see.

A tab. Best when your slides run in Chrome, like Google Slides. Meet shares one browser tab and switches focus to it. Audio passes through cleanly, which matters if your deck has video.
A window. Best for PowerPoint or Keynote. Meet shares that one app window and nothing else. Your notes, your inbox, and any other app stay off the call.
Your entire screen. Shares everything on that display. Skip it for presentations. The second you switch apps to check a message, the room sees it.

Pick the tab or the window. That single choice is what keeps a stray email or a notes document out of view. (Google walks through the same steps in its Meet present help.)

Keep your speaker notes on your side

Sharing one tab or window already hides most of your desktop. Speaker notes are the next piece, and every slide app has a presenter mode built for exactly this.

Google Slides: Open the dropdown next to the present button and choose Presenter view. Your notes and a next-slide preview open in a separate window that only you see. Share the slides tab to Meet and keep the presenter window on your side.
PowerPoint: Turn on Use Presenter View under the Slide Show tab. Your script shows in the presenter window. Share the slideshow window to Meet.
Keynote: Switch on the presenter display and set it to show notes. The audience view stays clean.

For the cross-app version of this, here's how to share your screen on Zoom without showing your notes. The logic carries straight over to Meet.

Want your notes near the camera instead of buried at the bottom of the screen?

Presenter view parks your script at the bottom of the display, far from the lens, so every glance pulls your eyes down and away from the room. An invisible notes overlay like Oculta puts them somewhere else entirely: up by the camera, and out of the capture.

To run a Google Meet screen share presentation without showing your notes, click Present now at the bottom of the call, then choose A tab (for Google Slides) or A window (for PowerPoint or Keynote) instead of Your entire screen. Meet sends only that surface, so the room sees your slides and the rest of your desktop stays yours.

That's the core move. Below: how to set up each option, where to keep your speaker notes, the catch on a single-screen laptop, and a faster path if you present a lot.

Present now: tab, window, or whole screen

Look at the bottom bar of your call and click Present now. Google hands you three choices, and the one you pick decides how much of your machine the room can see.

A tab. Best when your slides run in Chrome, like Google Slides. Meet shares one browser tab and switches focus to it. Audio passes through cleanly, which matters if your deck has video.
A window. Best for PowerPoint or Keynote. Meet shares that one app window and nothing else. Your notes, your inbox, and any other app stay off the call.
Your entire screen. Shares everything on that display. Skip it for presentations. The second you switch apps to check a message, the room sees it.

Pick the tab or the window. That single choice is what keeps a stray email or a notes document out of view. (Google walks through the same steps in its Meet present help.)

Keep your speaker notes on your side

Sharing one tab or window already hides most of your desktop. Speaker notes are the next piece, and every slide app has a presenter mode built for exactly this.

Google Slides: Open the dropdown next to the present button and choose Presenter view. Your notes and a next-slide preview open in a separate window that only you see. Share the slides tab to Meet and keep the presenter window on your side.
PowerPoint: Turn on Use Presenter View under the Slide Show tab. Your script shows in the presenter window. Share the slideshow window to Meet.
Keynote: Switch on the presenter display and set it to show notes. The audience view stays clean.

For the cross-app version of this, here's how to share your screen on Zoom without showing your notes. The logic carries straight over to Meet.

Want your notes near the camera instead of buried at the bottom of the screen?

Presenter view parks your script at the bottom of the display, far from the lens, so every glance pulls your eyes down and away from the room. An invisible notes overlay like Oculta puts them somewhere else entirely: up by the camera, and out of the capture.

To run a Google Meet screen share presentation without showing your notes, click Present now at the bottom of the call, then choose A tab (for Google Slides) or A window (for PowerPoint or Keynote) instead of Your entire screen. Meet sends only that surface, so the room sees your slides and the rest of your desktop stays yours.

That's the core move. Below: how to set up each option, where to keep your speaker notes, the catch on a single-screen laptop, and a faster path if you present a lot.

Present now: tab, window, or whole screen

Look at the bottom bar of your call and click Present now. Google hands you three choices, and the one you pick decides how much of your machine the room can see.

A tab. Best when your slides run in Chrome, like Google Slides. Meet shares one browser tab and switches focus to it. Audio passes through cleanly, which matters if your deck has video.
A window. Best for PowerPoint or Keynote. Meet shares that one app window and nothing else. Your notes, your inbox, and any other app stay off the call.
Your entire screen. Shares everything on that display. Skip it for presentations. The second you switch apps to check a message, the room sees it.

Pick the tab or the window. That single choice is what keeps a stray email or a notes document out of view. (Google walks through the same steps in its Meet present help.)

Keep your speaker notes on your side

Sharing one tab or window already hides most of your desktop. Speaker notes are the next piece, and every slide app has a presenter mode built for exactly this.

Google Slides: Open the dropdown next to the present button and choose Presenter view. Your notes and a next-slide preview open in a separate window that only you see. Share the slides tab to Meet and keep the presenter window on your side.
PowerPoint: Turn on Use Presenter View under the Slide Show tab. Your script shows in the presenter window. Share the slideshow window to Meet.
Keynote: Switch on the presenter display and set it to show notes. The audience view stays clean.

For the cross-app version of this, here's how to share your screen on Zoom without showing your notes. The logic carries straight over to Meet.

Want your notes near the camera instead of buried at the bottom of the screen?

Presenter view parks your script at the bottom of the display, far from the lens, so every glance pulls your eyes down and away from the room. An invisible notes overlay like Oculta puts them somewhere else entirely: up by the camera, and out of the capture.