Change the page orientation and print slides, handouts, notes, and outlines from your PC or Mac.

Walk through the printing options for slides, handouts or notes so your printouts are the way you want them.

The Preview Pane shows you what each layout option looks like. Put in the other settings, such as which slides you want, how many copies, and so on. Click Print. The other options under Print …

You can print your speaker notes, with or without thumbnail images of the corresponding slides, and hand them out to your audience to view after your presentation.

In PowerPoint, slide backgrounds span to all edges of your screen. But when you print your presentation, you'll get a white margin around the edges, shown below.

In PowerPoint for the web, slide backgrounds extend to the edges of the slide. But when you print, a white margin appears around the edges of the slide. This is because most printers can’t do …

When you print handouts, PowerPoint for the web makes a PDF copy of your presentation file. With most PDF viewers, you'll get one slide per page with no headers or footers.

In the Print dialog box, under Settings, select the second box (which by default is set to Full Page Slides) to expand the list of options. Then, under Print Layout, select Outline.

Change the size, shape, or orientation of your slides for presentation or to simplify printing.

In the Slide Size dialog box, select Portrait, then select OK. In the next dialog box, you can select Maximize to take full advantage of the space available, or you can select Ensure Fit to make …