Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Speaker Notes and Handouts

In This Chapter

• Looking at uses for notes and handouts

• Writing, editing, formatting, and printing speaker notes

• Constructing slide handouts to give to your audience

• Printing a presentation in text outline form

• Printing slides, handout pages, and notes pages

The chapter explains how to handle the speaker notes that you can make to help with your presentation and the handouts you can give to your audience. It also looks into printing an outline version of your presentation, and all things having to do with printing.

I must say, exploring the printing options feels kind of strange after working with PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint presentations are meant to be viewed on the big screen, not read on measly pieces of paper. I've never liked printers. I've been at war with them for years. They're always failing on me. Still, you have to print notes if you intend to refer to them during a presentation, and you have to print handouts before you can distribute them to your audience, so this chapter looks into all the printing options.

What Are Notes and Handouts?

Notes and handouts are what you might call “old school” because you print them. You don't show them on a computer screen. You run them through an old‐fashioned printer and read from them.

Notes, also called speaker notes, are meant to help you deliver your presentation. As you construct your presentation, you can, in Normal view, type notes into the Notes pane. Later, you can print these notes and ...