HOW TO MAKE A POSTER IN

POWERPOINTKathleen Plott

Advanced Academic Services

Klein ISD

March 2012

STEP

1

Open Powerpoint

Select Design Menu

Select Page Set Up

Select “Custom” in Slides sized for:

Change the width to 36” Change the Height to 54”

Click on Landscape

Click OK

STEP

2

Click on the title box, type in title (TPSP Sample Poster)

Delete Subtitle Box

STEP

3

Open existing powerpoint Right click on title slide,

located on left slide menu

Select Copy

STEP

4A

Toggle back to Poster Presentation, select “Paste Special” under Paste

Click on Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007 Object (First choice)

Click OK

STEP

4B

Resize object by “grabbing” corner handles

STEP 5 Continue with the rest of the slides to make your presentation poster

STEP 6 As you are pasting, you can make all your slides the same size by:

Right click slide Choose Format Object Choose the size tab In this case, the first slide was:

Height 12.44” and Width: 16.59”

STEP 7 You can move the objects around and design your own layouts

See the Advanced Academics folder for other samples

Additional Resources:

Advanced template in AA folder

DO SOME RESEARCH!http://faculty.washington.edu/robinet/poster.html

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