Creating a Poster

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Creating a Poster

• Where
• Go to the first floor of the RBD library,
  behind the left side of the IT booth.
• When you enter the room, sign in at the front
  desk at the left.
• Sit down at one of the large Dell computers.
• Open Microsoft Powerpoint.

• Preparing
• Open Microsoft PowerPoint
• Open the File Menu
• Select Page Setup
• On pulldown menu, scroll down and select Custom
• Type in your preference for height and width
  (we used
• 30x40)
• 6. Select Portrait
• 7. Select OK

• Sizing
• Powerpoints default setting will allow you to
  see the whole slide. You
• need to change the sizing so you can add small
  text.
• On the Standard toolbar, click the arrow next to
  the Zoom box.
• Select the magnification you need to see small
  text (we used 25)
• 3. Select the font and font size (we used Arial
  Black 42pt.)
• 4. After you finish typing in each text box,
  select the text.
• 5. Right click on the selected text.
• 6. Select Font
• 7. Deselect the Subscript box (if it is selected
  by default)
• 8. Adjust font and magnification as needed

Printing
Information about the Auburn University RBD
Library Open M-F (?)