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How to add speaker notes in Google Slides?

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The information you share is important when giving great presentations, but how you share it is equally important. Speaker notes are crucial in helping presenters maintain a smooth and confident delivery during their Google Slides presentations. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or a public speaker, adding speaker notes to your Google Slides can make a big difference.

In this article, we have discussed how to add speaker notes in Google Slides and, if it is not visible then, how to enable it.

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How to add speaker notes?

If you want to add speaker notes to your Google Slides presentation, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Open the Google Slides presentation and click in the text field at the bottom of the screen with the message, Click to add speaker notes.

Step 2: Type in your notes for the slide.

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How to enable the speaker Notes?

Speaker notes are by default enabled in Google Slides, but they might have been disabled mistakenly by you or somebody else from your account. To enable speaker notes again on Google Slides, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Click on the View tab in the toolbar ribbon in the Google Slides.

Step 2: Click on the Show speaker notes option to enable the speaker notes.

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Speaker notes in Presenter view

To know how the speaker notes will look in the presenter’s view, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Open the presentation on Google Slides and click o the Down Arrowhead beside the Slideshow button.

Step 2: Click on the Presenter view.

Step 3: The audience won’t see the speaker’s notes, which will be visible on the presenter’s screen. You can use the Plus and Minus signs to increase and decrease the size of the speaker notes.

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Akash Singh

Akash is a law graduate who likes to go for bike rides on the weekends soul-searching for answers to his many existential questions. You can contact him here: [email protected]

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