• Overview
• Learning Materials
  • Creating a PowerPoint File
    • Open A New Document
    • Choose and Apply a Design
    • Add New Slides
    • Select and Apply Slide Templates
    • Add Text To Slides
    • Use Text Effectively
    • Insert Objects Onto a Slide
    • Insert a Picture Onto a Slide
    • Add A Chart To A Slide
    • Add A Table To A Slide
    • Use Content Effectively
    • Draw On Slides
    • Add Notes To A Slide
    • Add Slide Transitions
    • Add Animation to Text and Objects
    • Use Movement Effectively
    • Add Hyperlinks to a Slide
    • Add Action Buttons
    • Use Links Effectively
    • Add Narration to a Presentation
  • Delivering a Presentation
  • Distributing a Presentation
• What's Next
• Index

Add Notes To A Slide

To add notes to a slide, simply click in the Notes pane, below the selected slide in Normal view.

Note text can be formatted using the text formatting tools in the Formatting toolbar.

Consider the purpose of your Notes before you create them:

• Are the notes meant to aid you or someone else deliver a presentation? If so, they may not need to be very formal.
• Are they meant to be an alternate delivery format of the content of your presentation? For example, might they be used by students who missed a lecture? If so, you might want to create notes in a more formal narrative style.

Notes can be displayed in two ways:

• by printing out Notes pages
• by selecting Speaker Notes in Slide Show view

Click on each method above to link to instructions on how to do it.

Try it! Add notes to one of your slides. From the View menu, select Notes Pages to see how the page will print.