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.

Click "File," then "Open" in PowerPoint. Search for the presentation to use with laptop speaker notes and double-click it.

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 ...