When you have decided which layout is appropriate for your needs, print your handouts as follows:

1. (Optional) If you want to print only one particular slide, or a group of slides, select the ones you want in either Slide Sorter view or in the slide thumbnails task pane on the left.
2. Select Office Button?Print. The Print dialog box appears.
3. Set options for your printer or choose a different printer. See the “Setting Printer-Specific Options” section later in this chapter for help with this.
4. In the Print Range area, choose one of the following:
   • All to print the entire presentation.
   • Current Slide to print whatever slide you selected before you issued the Print command.
   • Selection to print multiple slides you selected before you issued the Print command. It is not available if you did not select any slides beforehand.
   • Custom Show to print a certain custom show you have set up. It is not available if you do not have any custom shows.
   • Slides to print the slide numbers that you type in the accompanying text box. Indicate a contiguous range with a dash. For example, to print slides 1 through 9, type 1-9. Indicate noncontiguous slides with commas. For example, to print slides, 2, 4, and 6, type 2, 4, 6. Or to print slides 2 plus 6 through 10, type 2, 6-10. To print them in reverse order, type the order that way, such as 10-6, 2.
5. Enter a number of copies in the Number of Copies text box. The default is 1. If you want the copies collated (applicable to multipage printouts only), make sure you mark the Collate checkbox.
6. Open the Print What drop-down list and choose Handouts. The Handouts section of the box becomes available, as shown in Figure 25-7.

   FIGURE 25-7
   Choose Handouts to print and specify which handout layout you want.

   

7. Open the Slides Per Page drop-down list and choose the number of slides per page you want.
8. If available, choose an Order: Horizontal or Vertical. Not all number-of-slide choices (from Step 7) support an Order choice.
9. Open the Color/Grayscale drop-down list and select the color setting for the printouts:
   • Color: Sends the data to the printer assuming that color will be used. When you use this setting with a black-and-white printer, it results in slides with grayscale or black backgrounds. Use this setting if you want the handouts to look as much as possible like the onscreen slides.
   • Grayscale: Sends the data to the printer assuming that color will not be used. Colored backgrounds are removed, and if text is normally a light color on a dark background, that is reversed. Use this setting if you want PowerPoint to optimize the printout for viewing on white paper.
10. Mark any desired checkboxes at the bottom of the dialog box:
    • Scale to Fit Paper: Enlarges the slides to the maximum size they can be and still fit on the layout
    • Frame Slides: Draws a black border around each slide image. Useful for slides being printed with white backgrounds.
    • Print Comments: Prints any comments that you have inserted with the Comments feature in PowerPoint.
    • Print Hidden Slides: Includes hidden slides in the printout. This option is not available if you don’t have any hidden slides in your presentation.
    • High Quality: Optimizes the appearance of the printout in small ways, such as allowing text shadows to print.
11. (Optional) Click the Preview button to see a preview of your handouts; then click the Print button to return to the Print dialog box.
12. Click OK. The handouts print, and you’re ready to roll!

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