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.

How to Take Notes in Microsoft PowerPoint. Presentation expert and author of "Beyond Bullet Points," Cliff Atkinson suggests keeping most of the notes hidden from your audience when you use ...

Using Presenter View in PowerPoint lets you view presentations with speaker notes on one computer, while the audience views the notes on a second monitor.

That's all you need to do! [via Digital Inspirations] Want more presentation tips? Don't forget to check out our roundup of top advice for creating killer PowerPoint presentations.

To counteract these reactions, but also the powerpoint-type serial presentations, authors have proposed other techniques for taking notes and developing presentations. These approaches rely on ...