Creating “Handouts”

We can print the presentation in the form of “Handouts”, so the audience can read the presentation later.

Those of you, who have fiddled a little between the options for printing in the previous lesson, will have noticed “Handouts” section under “Full page Slides” .  This is the way to print “Handouts”.

 

A second way you can do this is in “Word”.

Just click the “Save and Send” (1) tab in the “Backstage” view, select “Create Handouts” (2) and click the “Create Handouts” (3) button on the right.
This opens a dialog where you select the format you wish to use in your “Word” document.
All this seems obvious to me .
Click OK when you’re done.

 

All slides are neatly placed into a “Word” document.

“Handout Master”

In the “Handout master”, we give the design and layout of our “Handout”.
Compare it with a slide master.

The “Handout master” option can be found under the “View” tab in the “Ribbon”.

When we click on it, the “Handout Master” tab is shown in the “Ribbon”.

This tab is divided into five groups.
“Page Setup”, “Placeholders”, “Edit Theme”, “Background” and “Close”.

The first thing we do when we make a “Handout” is setting the number of slides per page.

 

Just click the “Slides per page” in the “Ribbon”, under the “Handout Master” tab.

 

By default, the “Handout Master” has text boxes for header, date, footer, and page number. You can disable them by clicking on the checkboxes in the “Ribbon”.

To change the orientation of the “Handout” click the “Handout Orientation” button.
To change the orientation of the slides, click on the “Slide Orientation”.

 

You can change font and font color for the text boxes in the “Handout Master”, with the “Fonts” and “Colors” buttons.

You can choose a background color for the “Handout Master”

To exit the “Handout Master” view, click the “Close Master View” button.

 

Edit “Handout “

Just as we can edit a “Slide master”, we can also edit a “Handout master”.

For example, select the “Header” textbox in the “Handout”.
And enter the text of your choice.
This may be default text for all text boxes to be filled in the “Handout”.

If you do not want this default text to fill the text boxes, check it out in the “Ribbon”.

You can also add entry fields to add styles.
For this, select the “Insert” tab in the “Ribbon” and click the “Text Box” button.
Click and drag in the “Handout master” where you want to insert the text box.

 

Actually, this is always the same, whether it is a “Slide master” or “Handout master”.
You can add, delete, or move what you want, except the slides.
It allows you to change anything.

Please note when you make changes to the “Handout”, these changes are applied to all pages.

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