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So in this video I'm going to show you how you can use your phone as a remote
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whenever you're using a presentation in Canva. You can do all kinds of cool
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things. But before we do feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel where
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each week I'll be uploading new videos on a variety of different topics. So
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let's learn how to use our remote to control a Canva presentation kind of
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like this one. So all you'll do is just select present and then select the
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button to present and put your slideshow in a full screen view kind of like this
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Now this is what I had done in the past but I just went through and clicked on
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each slide one by one like this. This may work fine but it's a lot easier when you
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can use your phone as a remote. So to do this what you'll do is create your
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presentation put it in full screen even before you present at the venue that
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you're going to do this at and you want to select this button right down here
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this little ellipse at the bottom and choose this option that says share
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remote control. From here it's going to give you a link you'll want to select
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copy link and then what you want to do is share that link with yourself. Either
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email it to yourself or if you use a program like notes just take that
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address and paste it in a note and then you can open that note from your phone. So that's one thing you have to make sure that you send the link to yourself. Okay
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so now once I'm ready to present in front of an audience I just have to take
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my phone and open the link that I sent to myself. If you remember I added it in
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a note that I can access on my computer and on my phone so I'm just going to click on that link. It's going to take me to a website that basically just says
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that the presenter has left the session. Once it reconnects it's going to allow
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me to use my phone as the remote. So let's do that I'm going to go to my presentation and I'm going to select present. There we go instantly you notice
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that my phone now says connected and it's going to allow me to advance the
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slides. This is great because you're no longer stuck in one area just clicking
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on a mouse advancing to the next slide. You can move all around the venue and
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still have your phone as a remote. Now let me show you some of the really cool
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magic shortcuts that you can do. Here is confetti. We also have a drumroll. Other
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things like a curtain to close if you would like and then you can also reopen
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it. Some other cool things on here as well there's our mic drop. We have some
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bubbles and then finally we have a screen blur in case we need this for any
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reason. But again just a really easy way something that is going to be really
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helpful if you're planning to present using your phone with Canva. Once you are
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finished you can end the presentation and your remote will go to inactive. So
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remember once you launch your presentation in full screen just click on the three dots at the bottom select share remote control copy that link
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share it in a location where you can access on any device to control your
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Canva slides with another device like a phone. I hope this video has been helpful
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for you if you have any questions go ahead and leave them in the comment
