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Many Mac users create presentations in the Keynote app, but may need to share what they’ve created in a PowerPoint or Google Slides file format.

To save a copy of a Keynote presentation in another format, you export it in the new format. Any changes made to the exported presentation don’t affect the original.

To share your screen in some versions of the macOS, you need to allow Zoom or Google Meet access to screen recording. You can do this in your System Preferences. Select the Security & Privacy option, click the Privacy tab, scroll down to Screen Recording, and finally check the option for zoom.us (for Zoom) or Google Chrome (for Meet).

Google offers a number of accessibility features in its products and online services, including Gmail, Google Chrome, Chromebooks, Meet, Google Calendar, and more. See the Google Workspace user guide to accessibility to learn about using keyboard shortcuts, screen readers, using braille displays, and other accessibility tools you have access to via your Allegheny College Google account. You can even provide the Google Accessibility team with feedback.

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Labels can help keep your Google Keep notes organized. Here’s a quick introduction.

1. In your browser, navigate to Google Keep.
2. Open a note. Click on the three dots for the “More” menu.
   
3. Choose Add label.
   
4. You can search for an already existing label or scroll through the list, and then click on the label you want to apply. You can also type in a new label name and choose Create to apply the new label.
   
5. Labels you use will show up on the lefthand side of the Google Keep window in a desktop browser. Clicking on the label will show all of your Keep notes containing that label.
   
6. While editing a note, you can mouse over the label showing at the bottom of the note to have the option to remove the label.
   
7. To edit a label name, scroll to the bottom of the list of labels in Google Keep and choose Edit labels.

Learn more about labels and other ways to organize Google Keep notes.

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If you are the meeting host in Google Meet, you now have the option to mute all participants at once.

The meeting host is the only user in a meeting who can use the “mute all” feature. Once all participants are muted, the meeting host cannot unmute them. However, users will be able to unmute themselves as needed.

Note that at present, this feature is only available when using Meet from a browser on your computer. If the host is using the mobile Meet app, this feature will be added in the coming months.

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When you’re planning to be out of office, you can set an automatic vacation reply in Gmail. Here’s how:

In Google Calendar, you can define a stretch of time when you will be out of office. This can be a few hours, a particular day, or a range of days. When you indicate you’re out of office, your calendar will automatically decline all meetings during that time, using a custom decline message if you choose.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top of your calendar, click the date you’ll be out of the office (or the first date, if you’re planning on multiple days).
3. Click Out of office.
4. Select the dates that you’ll be out of the office.
5. Optional: Update the time range and edit your decline message.
6. Click Save.

During the time when your status is set to Out of office, others who contact you through Google Chat messages or Gmail will see a notification alerting them to that fact. So will users who mention or tag you in comments in a Google Doc.

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