Preparing your PowerPoint
Presentation as a Leave-behind

Use PowerPoint as a Visual Complement
to your verbal presentation
• But you have to do a leave-behind…
– Often visual slides don’t tell the whole story without
the presenter’s narration
• There are 2 methods you can use:
1. Notes Master
2. Hidden Slide

1. Using the Notes Master

• Use Notes Master to either describing the slide, or the
narration of your speech that goes with that particular slide
• In PowerPoint, click on the View menu, then click “Notes
Master.” This will create two placeholders. The top one is a
reduced visual of your PowerPoint slide. The bottom will be
your notes. This will be your leave-behind

You should put detailed charts in the Notes Master too
• Why should your audience
go blind looking at detailed
charts on the screen?
• Put pertinent information on
the screen – what
information they should take
away from the presentation
• The full chart details can be
in the leave-behind (in the
notes view)

When you go to Print, select Notes Pages under “Print what”

2. Using Hidden Slide

Hidden Slide
• This might seem like extra work, but it will help in the long run
• Hide the “detailed” slide, make a second “pertinent info” slide
• Select the slide you want to hide then go to Slide Show on the tool
bar and select Hide Slide. This slide will not show up in slide show
mode
Slide to hide Slide to view

Hidden Slide
• Print out the hidden (detailed) slides for your leave behind by
checking Print hidden slides in your Print dialog box. You can
discard the “pertinent info” slides if you wish