Add speaker notes to each slide to help you remember what you're going to say when you present.

Tip: You can add notes either while you’re presenting, directly from Presenter view, or as you’re editing your presentation. For information on how to add speaker notes to your presentation …

You can print your speaker notes, with or without thumbnail images of the corresponding slides, and hand them out to your audience to view after your presentation.

In PowerPoint, you can print your slides, your speaker notes, and create handouts for your audience.

Select the Notes drop down button in the View tab of the ribbon. Select "Generate speaker notes for all slides", or "Generate speaker notes for current slide" depending on what you're looking …

If you want to add the date and time to your slides, click the Slide tab. If you want to add the date and time to your notes pages, click the Notes and Handouts tab.

You'll learn how to use speaker notes to add reminders or talking points for the presenter, and use comments to give your colleagues feedback about their presentations.

You can create and print Notes pages to accompany you when you present a PowerPoint slide show. A printed Notes page shows a slide thumbnail on one half of the page, and speaker …

Use PowerPoint Presenter View to present your slide show with speaker notes on one computer and slides on another.

You can record your PowerPoint presentation—or a single slide—and capture voice, ink gestures, and your video presence. When completed, it's like any other presentation.