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PowerPoint presentations are designed to
be presented to an audience but
sometimes you 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 you could just
enter the number of copies you want and
click the print button right away but
before we do that why don't we pause and
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 large presentation
and you only want to print part of it
otherwise print all the default will
work just fine next up is print layout
where you can decide how your slides are
going to be arranged on the printed page
let's take a closer look at what some of
these options mean 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 this option can be
useful if you plan to actually use your
notes while you're presenting going back
to the menu the next option is called
outline this one is unique because it
prints just the text on your slides
instead of the slides themselves some
presenters like to use this as a guide
to help them remember the flow of the
presentation finally we have a wide
variety of handouts to choose from these
work really well if you want to give
your audience a copy of the presentation
I like the layout that has three slides
because it includes a 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 very top of the pane
now you just have to wait for your
presentation to finish printing