Working with Handout and Notes Masters

Handouts are essentially a printing option for PowerPoint. You can print one, two, three, four, six, or nine slides on a page and hand those pages out to your audience to follow along with your presentation, or to take with them as a reminder of key points. In the Handout master you can enter up to two headers and two footers, rearrange or delete placeholders, set the orientation of the handouts, and set the number of slides to print on a page.

Notes can be printed for the benefit of the person making the presentation, providing a handy reference while presenting. Notes consist of a slide along with an area for notes and placeholders for header and footer text. Notes can be entered in the Notes pane of Normal view. The Notes master allows you to arrange the placement of the various elements on the Notes page globally.

Work with Handout Master

  1. Click Handout Master in the Presentation Views group of the View tab.

    Work with Handout Master

  2. Do any of the following:

    1. Click in a placeholder and enter text or replace the date or slide number element already there.

    2. Drag a placeholder and drop it in a new location.

    3. Click to remove any of the four placeholders from handouts.

  3. Click Slide Orientation or Handout Orientation and choose Portrait or Landscape.

    Work with Handout Master

  4. Click Slides Per Page and choose an option from the drop-down gallery.

  5. Click Background Styles and choose a background for the handouts from the drop-down gallery.

  6. Click the various tools in the Edit Theme group to choose formatting options from the various drop-down galleries.

  7. Click Close Master View when you’re done with Handout master settings to return to Normal view.

    Work with Handout Master

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You can use the Insert tab when in Handout Master to insert graphics that will only appear on your handouts. For example, you might want to insert a logo and the words "Company Confidential" on handouts to ensure that people treat the handouts as private.

Tip

Tip

To leave background graphics off of handouts, which can make the text easier to read, click the Hide Background Graphics checkbox in the Background group on the Handout Master tab.

Work with Notes Master

  1. Click Notes Master in the Presentation Views group of the View tab.

  2. Click in a placeholder and enter text or replace the date or slide number element already there.

  3. Drag a placeholder and drop it in a new location.

  4. Click to remove any of the six placeholders from handouts.

  5. Click Slide Orientation or Notes Page Orientation and choose Portrait or Landscape.

    Work with Notes Master

    Tip

    Tip

    You can click and drag any placeholder to a new location.

  6. Click to choose a background for the handouts from the Background Styles drop-down gallery.

  7. Click the tools from the Edit Theme group to choose formatting options from the various drop-down galleries.

  8. Click Close Master View when you’re done with Notes Master settings to return to Normal view.

    Tip

Tip

Tip

Be sure to format the Notes body so you can easily read your notes while making a presentation, often in a darkened room. Make the font size large and use a font that is clean and easy to read.

See Also

See Also

For more information about formatting text to make it easily readable, see "Formatting Text".

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