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Typing Speaker Notes. You know one of the great things about PowerPoint is that if you are going to be giving a live presentation, the PowerPoint slides can help you with that presentation. After all, as you are talking to your audience and taking a look at your slides, your bullet points that you see and the different information that you put on your slides, helps you stay organized, helps you stay focused, and really sort of prevents that idea that you are going to be giving a presentation and come to a complete roadblock. So the slides can help you. However, PowerPoint gives you an additional option to give you information that you can use during your presentation and that is through speaker notes. Now, of course, speaker notes are simply information that you type about your speech or your presentation, and if you look on the screen here, you see that I had some speaker notes that I had started typing concerning this particular slide. If you look to the bottom of the PowerPoint interface, as you see here, you will see this white dialog box and it will probably be about the size that I have right here, and this is a place where you can type information about whatever slide is selected. And, as you can see, if I move around to different slides, I have a note here that says "click to add notes." I simply click my mouse and I can begin typing anything that I want. So, as I work through my presentation, I can simply type additional information about whatever slide I am looking at that I want to use. How does that help you? After all, if you click your slide show button, you will see that the speaker notes don't actually appear anywhere, and, of course, your audience wont be able to see them either. Speaker notes actually help you through your printing process and we will talk about this in a later tutorial. You can print copies of your slides onto paper and then have the speaker notes besides those slides; so, when you are giving your presentation, you can stand there and point to the screen, yet have your own notes right in front of you, and this is an easy way that PowerPoint helps you to stay organized. First things first, you see the little dialog box. The first thing you will probably want to do if you are going to type speaker notes is make this a little bigger, because it's sort of difficult to type in the area that they provide you with. If you will position your mouse just on the little bar that you see here, you will notice that it changes, and if you hold down your left mouse key and then drag, you can make the notes pane bigger and now you can actually type. Now speaker notes basically mean you can type anything you want to about the current slide. For example, what I have started here is I have typed the first bullet point and now I am making some additional sub-bullet points and these are for myself. In other words, when I talk about communication failure among vendors, the main thing I am going to talk about is the failure to provide shipment numbers, and then I am going to talk about failure to refund non-shipped items. So the point here is that speaker notes can be anything that you want them to be. You can type extra bullet points like this so you will have something to work with, you can simply type sentences, you can type paragraphs, whatever you want to do, and you can use any formatting that you want. You can select what you type, use bullets, numbering, you can change it to bold, italics, emphasize certain words. If you click font - format font, you can see you can change the font and anything that you might want to do. So the text that you have here works just like any text on a slide. So as you are typing those speaker notes, you might want to bold or underline certain statements that you want to make sure that you convey and you get across to your audience. So you can type this in any method that you want. Generally how should you type speaker notes? That is completely up to you and each speaker does it a little bit differently. As a general rule though, it is a good idea to keep the concept of an outline in your mind. Whenever you type speaker notes, think about it in terms of using bullets and number points because this is an easy way to keep you organized. If you simply type a long paragraph of information, it's difficult to convey that information to your audience without simply reading it to them, which never looks as good. So when you are thinking about notes, think about them in terms of an outline format, and again the point is to provide additional information about the slide that you have that you are not actually going to type out and give to your audience. This is information that you use. One other point that I want to note is if you click the view menu, you see a notes page option. You can click that and what this will do is simply show you how the entire page will lay out. You can see your card here, and then you actually have the text that you typed, and you can change it and keep typing text on this very page as well. Whatever you want to do, this is just an extra view that you can choose to use. Primarily, you'll probably want to use the normal view and, again, once you finish typing the notes for each individual slide, you can then print those notes in a couple of different ways and we will see how to do that in a later tutorial.