To add notes to your PowerPoint, you'll need to have your presentation set to "Normal" view before accessing the "Notes" button for individual slides.

The presentation also came with speaker notes, providing key talking points for each slide. However, the ones it had already generated were too short, so I asked it to add more.

To add a note to a text document, drawing or presentation with a keyboard shortcut, select the area and then press "Ctrl-Alt-M" on your computer keyboard instead of using the Insert menu.

Add speaker notes to a slide in PowerPoint. Open your PowerPoint presentation and select the first slide where you want to add notes. Step 1: Go to the View tab and choose either Normal or Outline ...