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Adding Speaker Notes

Speaker notes (also called presenter notes) can guide you in making a presentation. They help you cover all the relevant points, in the correct order. They can also provide additional information in case questions arise during your presentation.

Speaker notes can be printed out on paper (described later in this hour) or displayed onscreen in the Notes view, as described earlier in this hour. Speaker notes are not intended for distribution to the audience; they provide information for the presenter.

Speaker notes can also be useful if you're preparing a presentation but not giving it. The speaker will appreciate the additional information and guidance on the topics as preparation for what the audience might ask or want to hear.

To add notes to a slide, you must be in the Notes view of your slides. Choose Master View from the View menu, and then Notes from the Master View submenu.

With the Notes view onscreen, you can add notes by double-clicking on the bottom half of the page that is displayed. A heavy line surrounds the notes area and a cursor appears.

Type the notes that you want to add to the slide. You can format the text as you do any paragraph of text in a StarOffice document. You can

All these formatting options are available from the Format menu, from the toolbar, or by right-clicking in the notes area and selecting from the editing pop-up menu that appears (see Figure 21.15).

The slide itself is generally where you include graphics to assist in your presentation, but you can also include them in the notes area so that they are only visible to the speaker.

With the notes area selected, you can choose Picture from the Insert menu, and then select From File... from the Picture submenu. The now-familiar Insert Picture dialog box appears, and you can select an image file to insert into the Notes area (see Figure 21.16).

Figure 21.15
A pop-up editing menu appears when you click the right mouse button in the Notes area of a slide.

Figure 21.16
You can insert a picture in the Notes area, just as you can in the Slide itself, by using the Insert Picture dialog box.

Tip - You can also use the built-in StarOffice Image Editor or the StarDraw tools on the Main toolbar to sketch graphics in the Notes area.


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