The Notes of a presentation show the slide and the related speaker notes below it. If you choose to print Handouts, you can print several slides on one page using a variety of layouts, some with space for note-taking. The following procedures cover printing in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac and newer versions. How do I print my powerpoint presentation with notes included on handout like layout? I am a student who take notes on powerpoint slides on the note section under each corresponding slide, and I am sure I am not the only one doing this. I just want to be able to print in handout mode with my notes and not just blank lines next to each slide.
Speaker notes are the notes that only the speaker can see. A good presentation does not put everything the speaker says on the screen.
In fact very little of the words said will be displayed only quotes, key words, or things the speaker wants the listener to write down. Everything else should be an image. In PowerPoint, these are viewable in the Presenter’s View (see screen shot below). There is one app that comes close to making presentations with speaker notes possible. If you own a Mac and don’t mind jumping through a lot of hoops to make it happen.
That app is called and in conjunction with the Mac version of PowerPoint or Keynote, a user can export his or her presentation as a PDF file with notes in place and import it to the 2Screens app. Here’s the short version: export the presentation with the right options checked and then import with the found on the Apps tab when the device is selected in iTunes. It is not ideal for a few reasons.
Too many steps are needed it should be simpler than this. Only Mac users can use this method – the Windows version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the right export options available. The 2 Screens app is complicated, but that also means it has some interesting possibilities. Advertisement The solution to all of this is for Apple or someone else to create a presentation tool that does the following:. Displays the current slide and at least the next slide. Shows thumbnails of all the slides. Shows presentation speaker notes on the same screen as the current slide image.
Has a laser pointer tool. Has an on-screen drawing tool. Has the ability to easily play video, audio, and PDF files. Will import from both Mac and Windows versions of PowerPoint Here is our demo video of Keynote on the iPad hooked up to a projector.