Speaker notes are useful when the content shown on a PowerPoint slide is not enough for the presenter. They can contain talking points, explanations, reminders, references, or instructions that should not appear directly on the slide. For presentations created or maintained by an application, these notes may also need to be generated automatically. For example, a training system can build slides from a template and insert instructor notes at the same time, while a document-processing workflow may need to extract existing notes for review, archiving, or migration. This article shows how to use Java to add speaker notes to PowerPoint slides, read existing notes, remove them when they are no longer needed, and process notes across multiple slides. Install the Java PowerPoint Library This example uses Spire.Presentation for Java . If you use Maven, add the dependency to your pom.xml : <repositories> <repository> <id> com.e-iceblue </id> <na...
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