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I'm creating a PowerPoint document from R using the officer package and I'd like to add notes to my slides.

Is it possible to add notes to a particular powerpoint slide from R (preferably using the officer package)?

I'm really unsure if an appropriate function exists within the officeR (or any other) R package.

A workaround that I was thinking about was creating a custom slide layout (in the PowerPoint template file that I'm using) that contains the notes and then simply using this layout when I create the deck within R. But unfortunately it seems that PowerPoint doesn't let you add notes to a slide layout within the Master View.

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    dear Tom, this question is discussed here: https://github.com/davidgohel/officer/issues/90 – David Gohel Jun 29 '18 at 09:10
  • @DavidGohel Thanks for your comment! Good to know that this indeed doesn't exist yet within officeR. I'm glad to see that this is already in the pipelline:-) I'm going to leave the question open for now, maybe someone has a suggestion for a workaround. – Tom Bombadil Jun 29 '18 at 16:01
  • there is a workaround with rmarkdown, the new version is handling comments in powerpoint. – David Gohel Jun 29 '18 at 17:07

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Officer now has a set_notes function that allows you to add notes to a slide.

As David Gohel mentioned, notes are directly supported in rmarkdown and work with officedown ppt templates.


## My Slide

- Awesome
- Slide
- Content


::: notes
These are notes for ppt
:::
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