Thankfully, adding speaker notes to a presentation isn't too difficult, giving you the best of both worlds. To add speaker notes to a PowerPoint, follow these steps: Open a PowerPoint presentation.

Learn how to change the default view mode so as to always open PowerPoint presentations in Outline, Notes, or Slide Sorter mode.

Open PowerPoint and launch the presentation for which you want to take notes. Click in the area below the slide, where it says "Click to Add Notes," and start typing your notes.

To edit a footer in your PowerPoint slides and include citations or notes, you'll need to access the Header & Footer menu from the Insert tab.

You can add or delete Notes to PowerPoint Slides, and in this post, we will show you how to remove notes from one, multiple, or all slides.