Making a Poster in Publisher

Getting Started

1.  Open Microsoft Publisher
2.  Click "More Blank Page Sizes"
3.  Click "Create New Page Size"
4.  Format to size you want your poster to be.  For example, 26 inches wide and 24 inches length
5.  Click "Create Page"

*A blue line will frame your page.  Do not place elements of your poster outside of this blue line.

Adding a Title

1.  Click "Draw a Text Box" - click and drag to form text box.
2.  Click inside your text box and change your font size to 100, hit enter.
3.  Type your Title
4.  Highlight your title and set it to center alignment.
5.  Fit the box closely to your text by clicking and dragging the corners.  If the three dot symbol appears, your box is too small for your text.  Simply make your box bigger.
6.  Click and drag your text box to the center of your poster.

Insert Text from Microsoft Word

1.  Click the insert tab
2.  Click "Insert file"
3.  Choose your file
4.  Your font size should be between 18 and 21
5.  Fit your text box tightly to your text
6.  To create a border-under the draw tools tab, click "shape outline" chose the color and style you would like
7.  To remove the automatic hyphenation of words, click "text boox tools then "hyphenations" and uncheck the box that says "automatic hyphenate..."

Insert a Picture

1.  Click "Insert picture"
2.  Click "picture from file"
3.  Choose the file you want
4.  Format and move your picture into place

Insert Figures and Graphs from Microsoft Excel

1.  Create your graph in Excel
2.  Copy and Paste onto your poster
3.  Format and move into place