You can print your speaker notes, with or without thumbnail images of the corresponding slides, and hand them out to your audience to view after your presentation.

Change the page orientation and print slides, handouts, notes, and outlines from your PC or Mac.

Under Settings, click the second box (which defaults to say Full Page Slides), then under Print Layout, click Notes Pages. Notes Pages prints one slide per page, with speaker notes below.

Walk through the printing options for slides, handouts or notes so your printouts are the way you want them.

Print notes pages with slide thumbnails You can print your notes pages with a slide thumbnail to hand out to your audience or to help you prepare for your presentation.

Add speaker notes to each slide to help you remember what you're going to say when you present.

Go to File > Print > Printer Properties. Note: Depending upon your print driver you might have to click Advanced to see the paper size setting. Change the paper size to anything other than …

When you print handouts, PowerPoint for the web makes a PDF copy of your presentation file. With most PDF viewers, you'll get one slide per page with no headers or footers.

The Notes pane is where you put supplemental information that doesn't appear on-slide during a presentation. You may want to make key words in the notes bold so that you can see them …

This limitation stems from the design of most printers that don't print content in the margins. PowerPoint can’t change this printer-margin limitation, but here's a workaround you can try.