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.

You don’t have to wing it when presenting a slideshow. We’ll show you how to add notes to PowerPoint so that you have your talking points at your fingertips.

To add notes to your PowerPoint, you'll need to have your presentation set to "Normal" view before accessing the "Notes" button for individual slides.