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Adding speaker notes

Adding speaker notes

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Adding speaker notes

- We're all done building our presentation and finally ready to start preparing it for the actual show. Here's another confidence booster. It's okay if you know you won't remember all the key points in a slide when you get to it. This is normal for absolutely everyone and PowerPoint doesn't expect you to remember either. That's why we have speaker notes. Speaker notes are notes that only we can see on our side of the computer screen while we're presenting. But, the audience won't see it on the slides on the big screen. To add notes to a slide, at the bottom of any slide you want to add a note for, simply click underneath it and start typing. If you don't see an area to start typing, you can toggle on notes from the status bar. You can turn it on or off by clicking on it and when you see the "click to add notes", you can put your cursor there and start typing. You can add a speaker note to no slides or every slide. It's completely up to you wherever there's a key point that you don't…

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