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powerpoint presentations are designed to
be presented to an audience but
sometimes you might need to print them
too that's why it's important to
understand the basics of printing and
also the options that are unique to
PowerPoint to get started go ahead and
navigate to the backstage view then
click print in the left pane here you'll
find everything you need to print your
presentation including a preview and a
place to adjust your settings now we
could just enter the number of copies we
want and click the print button right
away but before we do that why don't we
take a look at some of the options below
if you're connected to more than one
printer for example you can use the menu
here to choose the one you want you can
also enter a custom slide range if
you're working with a longer
presentation and you only want to print
certain slides otherwise print all the
default option should work just fine
next up is page layout where you can
decide how your slides are going to be
arranged on the printed page let's take
a closer look at some of these options
full page slides is the default as you
can see from the preview on the right
this will print each of your slides on
its own separate page
if we click notes page on the other hand
the printout will include any notes that
you've added to the slide which makes it
really easy to reference those while
you're presenting the next option is
called outline this one is unique
because it prints only the text from
your slides instead of the slides
themselves some presenters like to use
this as a guide to help them remember
the flow of their presentation finally
we have a wide variety of handouts to
choose from these work really well if
you want to give your audience a hard
copy of your presentation I like the
layout that has three slides because it
includes space for people to write their
own notes and comments one of the last
things I'm going to do is switch from
full color to grayscale which can really
save on printer ink
when you're ready go ahead and click the
print button at the top of the pane and
now you just have to wait for your
presentation to finish printing