Thankfully, adding speaker notes to a presentation isn't too difficult, giving you the best of both worlds. To add speaker notes to a PowerPoint, follow these steps: Open a PowerPoint presentation.

Open PowerPoint and launch the presentation for which you want to take notes. Click in the area below the slide, where it says "Click to Add Notes," and start typing your notes.

One useful feature of PowerPoint allows you to add notes to your slides that an audience will never see. As slides scroll by, you can glance at your laptop and stay aware of important details.

Want a backup of your presenter notes in case your computer goes down? Here's how to print a PowerPoint presentation with notes and put your mind at ease.

Add some flair with music or sound effects, or record your own voice. We’ll show you how to add audio to PowerPoint for enhancing your next slideshow.

To edit a footer in your PowerPoint slides and include citations or notes, you'll need to access the Header & Footer menu from the Insert tab.

You can recall vital points during your presentation by making Speaker Notes privately visible in PowerPoint. Here's how to use the feature!

People still write dense blocks of text in their slides. Often, it's so they can more or less read the slides verbatim when they deliver the presentation. There's a better way.

The notes section lets speakers insert notes relating to each slide — perfect for nervous speakers, or anyone whose memory needs prodding. All done! Visit our Microsoft Office subject page.