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Ever had the fear — or maybe the actual experience — of showing a beautiful slide, complete with snappy text and perhaps an exquisite chart, and suddenly forgetting why you included the slide in the first place? Fear not! One of the slickest features in PowerPoint is its ability to create speaker notes to help you get through your presentation.
Notes are like an adjunct attachment to your slides. They don't appear on the slides themselves, but are displayed separately. Each slide in your presentation has its own page of notes.
 | In Normal View, the notes are hidden at the bottom of the screen in a separate Notes pane. To work with notes in Normal View, you must first enlarge the Notes pane to give yourself some room to work. PowerPoint also has a separate view designed for working with notes pages, called (you guessed it) Notes Page View. To call up Notes Page View, choose View --> Notes Page. Figure 1 shows a slide in Notes Page View. Each notes page consists of a reduced version of the slide and an area for notes. |
Of course, these notes are too small to see or work with in Notes Page View Page unless you increase the zoom setting. If you want to work in Notes Page View, you'll need to zoom in to see your work.
To add notes to a slide, follow these steps:
1. In Normal View, move to the slide to which you want to add notes.
2. Click and drag the Notes pane border, if necessary, to bring the notes text into view.
3. Click the notes text object, where it reads "Click to add notes."
4. Type away.
The text that you type appears in the notes area. As you create your notes, you can use any of the PowerPoint standard word-processing features, such as cut, copy, and paste. Press Enter to create new paragraphs.
Figure 5-1: Notes Page View lets you see your notes.
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