User notes that they can print and email

I was eventually able to solve this and get the Notes layer to show continuously throughout a slide that contains button-activated show/hide layers. However, my solution isn't optimal because on pages with layers it requires me to uncheck "Hide other slide layers" in Slide Layer Properties to enable the Notes layer on the master slide to always display. I wasn't able to accomplish this using a variable alone.

Unfortunately I am unable to upload a slide to this forum, but I hope that with the info below you will be able to understand what I've done and possibly suggest some way to simplify it by adding another trigger or variable.

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Key variable: ShowNotes which shows or hides the notes layer that lives on the Master Slide (Show layer Notes if ShowNotes=true)
Master Slide:
On content slides:
Base layer - contains hotspot over a button on the Master Slide that toggles variable ShowNotes when user clicks; for each button that shows a layer on click, hides all other layers on the page (except Notes).

Thanks, as always, for the encouragement and assistance from this forum!

Joanna