Adobe Presenter 6

Include slide notes in presentations

You can include extra notes about a slide in your final presentation. Users view the notes by clicking on the Notes pane in the viewer sidebar. Slide notes are a good location for extra information about a slide such as numerical details, supporting materials, or footnote text. You can also use slide notes to communicate with users who do not have audio capabilities or are hearing impaired. You create slide notes in PowerPoint.

Note: The notes appear in the Presenter viewer as unformatted text. Any formatting applied to notes in the PowerPoint note pane is ignored.
  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. Navigate to a slide for which you want to add a note.
  3. Ensure that you are in Normal or Notes Page view.
  4. Type note text directly into the notes area under the slide. (If you are in Normal view, but cannot see the notes area, it might be collapsed. Click the separator bar until the pointer changes to allow you to drag the separator bar. Drag up to display the notes area.)
    To view the notes area, move the mouse pointer over the separator bar until an equal sign with two arrows appears, then drag up.

  5. You can preview the notes by publishing your presentation locally, viewing the results, and clicking on the Slide Notes pane in the sidebar. (To publish locally, in PowerPoint, select Adobe Presenter menu > Publish. Select My Computer and click Publish.)
    This example shows PowerPoint slide notes in the Notes pane of the sidebar.