7-1 Activity: PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint Speaker Notes Tutorial This tutorial will show you how to create speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation. You will also learn how to save and convert the speaker notes to a Word file for submission.

Creating Speaker Notes

1. From the menu ribbon, click on the View tab.

2. By default, the “Presentation View” should be Normal. Select Normal if it is not already selected. From the “Show” submenu, select Notes. This will display the box for speaker notes at the bottom of each slide.

Saving and Exporting Speaker Notes

1. Ensure your PowerPoint presentation is completed, including all of your slides and speaker

notes. On the View tab, make sure that the Normal and Notes options are selected.

2. Click on the File tab of the menu ribbon. The menu options will open in a pane on the left of the screen.

3. In the File menu options, select Export.

4. From the Export submenu, select Create Handouts. Then click the Create Handouts button. This will bring you back to your PowerPoint slides, where you will see a dialog box.

5. In the dialog box, choose the option Notes below slides. This will allow the content on each slide to be more visible and readable. Check to make sure that the Paste option is selected under “Add Slides to Microsoft Word document.” Then click OK to begin the conversion.

6. The conversion may take some time to run, depending on the size of your presentation. When the conversion is finished, Microsoft Word will open with a document containing each slide and any speaker notes underneath.

7. Add your name to the Word document containing your slides and speaker notes. Save and submit this file, along with any other deliverables for your assignment, in the assignment submission area in your course.