How do you create speaker note pages that show the slides, related notes, and…

In presentation software, each master view controls one specific kind of output, and only objects placed on that master repeat automatically across every page generated from it: the Slide Master governs the on-screen slide design, the Handout Master governs the printed-handout layout for the audience (it never carries a placeholder tied to the presenter's own notes text), and the Notes Master governs the Notes Pages view, which alone pairs a slide-image placeholder with a text placeholder for speaker notes plus header, footer, date, and page-number placeholders.

Because the goal is a speaker-note page that shows the slide, the related notes, and a company logo together, the target must be the Notes Master (View > Master Views > Notes Master). Opening this view exposes the slide-image placeholder and the notes placeholder side by side, the exact layout of a notes page. Inserting the company logo as a picture directly on this master anchors it there, so it repeats automatically on every notes page; the same view also lets the placeholders be resized or moved and the header, footer, date, and page-number placeholders be managed.

• Editing the slide master only changes the design of the live slide itself; that design is what appears inside the small slide-image thumbnail on a notes page, but the slide master carries no separate notes-text placeholder, so it cannot supply the dedicated speaker-notes area this task needs.

• Editing the handout master only sets the printed-handout layout for the audience; even its layouts with ruled lines beside a slide provide blank space for the audience's own notes, not a placeholder linked to the presenter's actual speaker notes, so it cannot pair a slide with its own speaker notes on one page.

• Treating every one of the three routes as equally valid does not work: editing the slide master only shapes the on-screen slide design and editing the handout master only sets the printed-handout layout for the audience, and neither one carries a placeholder linked to the presenter's actual speaker notes, so they cannot combine into a notes page with a logo.