If you wish to include useful information that should only be visible to you (the speaker) during your next PowerPoint presentation, here's how to do that.

Notes Pages prints one slide per page, with Speaker Notes below it. So, to print your slides with Speaker Notes, click Print. Other options under Print Layout include Handouts, print-only slides ...

Search for the presentation to use with laptop speaker notes and double-click it. Scroll through the slide deck on the left side of the screen to get to the first slide to add a hidden note.