Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Entering Speaker Notes

If you will be delivering your presentation before a live audience, you will probably need some speaker notes to guide you. Each slide in a PowerPoint presentation has a corresponding notes page. As you create each slide, you can enter notes that relate to the slide’s content on this page. You do this in the Notes pane.

You enter and change text in the Notes pane the same way you do in the Slide pane and on the Outline tab. You simply click the Notes pane and begin typing. If you want to include something other than text in your speaker notes, you must switch to Notes Page view by clicking Notes Page on the View menu. You also switch to Notes Page view if you want to review all the notes at once.

In this exercise, you will ...