PowerPoint 2016 – Ravi Shankar

PowerPoint 2016 & 2013 users can use the export feature to create handout notes for their presentation in Word. This is quite useful when you want to quickly take print out of your presentation notes for all your audience.

Step 1: Open the presentation in PowerPoint 2013, click File menu and select Export option from the menu list.

Step 2: Click Create Handouts under Create Handouts in Microsoft Word (Export Screen)

This should display the following Send to Microsoft Word window.

Step 3: Now choose the Page layout in Microsoft Word and specify whether you want to add slides to Microsoft Word document and just link to the slides.

Since I want only the text, I have gone with Outline only option.

Step 4: Click OK button to start exporting the presentation from PowerPoint to Microsoft Word.

This should launch a new word document with content from PowerPoint Presentation.

We had seen the steps for adding notes in PowerPoint and now we will see how to print only notes in PowerPoint 2016, 2013 and 2010. The default print settings in PowerPoint is set to full slides and you can change this using the Print option.

Click File menu and then the Print menu option.

In the Print screen, navigate to Settings section then option with the arrow pointing downwards and label as Full Page Slides.

By selecting Notes Pages for Print Layout will print only the notes added for the slides.

Default Print Settings

If you want to change the default Print Layout for the presentation to Notes Pages then you can do the following.

Click File menu then Options link and in the Options window navigate to Advanced option.

Scroll down to “When printing this document” section and select the radio option Use the following print settings and set the value for Print what to Notes. Click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

Export presentation handout notes to Word

How print only notes in PowerPoint