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How to print PowerPoint slides with notes
If you click the Notes button underneath a PowerPoint slide, you can add speaker notes. This feature is great for adding presentation reminders, but they can be hard to remember if they aren’t available physically. Luckily, you can print them directly underneath your slides. Let’s review how to print PowerPoint slides with notes.
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QUICK ANSWER
To print PowerPoint with notes, go to File > Print > Print Layout. Print Layout is the first dropdown underneath the Slides field. Select Notes Pages, then click Print.
JUMP TO KEY SECTIONS
In PowerPoint, you can add notes to slides. This section appears underneath your slide after clicking the Notes button at the bottom.
How to print PowerPoint slides with notes (Windows)
In your PowerPoint with notes, click the File button in the top left.
Select Print from the menu options along the left.
Under Settings, click the first dropdown underneath the Slides field. In most cases, this should read Full Page Slides.
From the dropdown menu, under Print layout, select Notes Pages.
Finally, click Print to print your PowerPoint slide with notes.
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How to print PowerPoint slides with notes (Mac)
Open your PowerPoint. Click File > Print.
In the dialog box, click Show Details.
Click the dropdown next to Layout. Select Notes.
When finished, click Print.
FAQs
In your presentation, go to the Slide Show tab. Click the Use Presenter View checkbox. For the Monitor dropdown, select the monitor you want your speaker notes to appear on. For example, if I were hooking my laptop up to a projector, I would select Monitor 1 Internal Display (or my laptop display) in the Monitor dropdown.
Alternatively, you can print out your PowerPoint with notes and view your notes physically.
In your presentation, go to the Slide Show tab. Click the Use Presenter View checkbox. For the Monitor dropdown, select the monitor you want your speaker notes to appear on. For example, if I were hooking my laptop up to a projector, I would select Monitor 1 Internal Display (or my laptop display) in the Monitor dropdown.