In PowerPoint for Mac 2011 Essential Training, author David Rivers demonstrates how to create effective slideshows and dynamic presentations using the tools in Microsoft PowerPoint 2011. The course provides in-depth instructions for changing the look of presentations: using built-in and custom themes, formatting text, inserting tables.
Handouts are documents you can print from within PowerPoint that include slide representations from your presentation. PowerPoint lets you include as many as 9 slides on each Handout page. Of course, with 9 slides on a page, your slides will look more like thumbnails.
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You can also choose to print just one slide on every handout page, so then your Handout pages will look like individual slides printed on a page. Most Handouts are created to be printed, and the look and feel of these printed Handouts is determined by the Handout Master. To access and make edits to the Handout Master, you need to get to the Handout Master view in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
Click to expand.I don't have a Windows PC around to check this but I think you select the option to print to grayscale or black & white when printing. I think there is an option on the View toolbar to view your styles in this layout.
A bit more digging and I found a web page on this. I thought I had answered this already so when both posts turn up it will look like Dr Alzheimer is calling! - Cheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk. I am supposed to observe the same corporate colour scheme.
Since it breaks all the rules about visual display, I ignore the corporate scheme and stick to Black and other colours on White. This can be justified on the basis of vision science, and it prints out just fine for handouts.
Our previous scheme was the old Powerpoint default of Yellow on Blue. That of course was a hangover from the days of viewfoils and overhead projectors - so I ignored that one as well. But, to try to solve your problem, if you have to use a corporate template, can you not change the text to black and the background to white or a very light grey, and do this on the template. I would be inclined to try it on a copy of the presentation and see what worked.