How to roundtrip PowerPoint speaker notes using Acrobat XI Pro

How to roundtrip PowerPoint speaker notes using Acrobat XI Pro

Lori Kassuba – July 22, 2013

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint and click Preferences in the Acrobat ribbon.
2. In the Application Settings portion of the PDFMaker dialog, check Convert Speaker Notes. Click OK.
3. Select Create PDF from the Acrobat ribbon in PowerPoint.
4. Click Save in the Save Adobe PDF File As dialog in PowerPoint.
5. Click Yes to convert the speaker notes to sticky note annotations in the PDF.
6. Open the PDF file in Acrobat. Text from the speaker notes appears inside sticky note annotations.
7. Open the Comments List panel under the Comment pane to see all annotations.
8. Select Create Comment Summary from the Options dropdown to create a separate PDF that summarizes the annotations.
9. Open the Layers Navigation pane. Click on the eye next to the Presentation Notes layer to toggle the annotations on and off.
10. Click File > Save As Other > Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation to convert the PDF back to PowerPoint.
11. Open the converted file in PowerPoint and the text from the annotations appears in the speaker notes.