Creating a Poster with PowerPoint

Steve Bonham • Center for Excellence in Teaching
Georgia Southern University

PowerPoint is a great environment for creating professional posters for use in your classrooms or for professional conferences. PowerPoint provides tools for placing text, images (jpgs, gifs & clipart), charts, tables, etc. into your display. See my poster project (saved as a jpeg) in a new window for a visual that overviews what we'll do in this workshop.

You can create a one-slide poster that is up to 56" x 36" (landscape or portrait orientation). The "usual" size being 48" x 36". Or you may create two slides that will provide two facing posters (total size depending upon layout selected - see typical conference options below). There are downloadable templates available for options: A | B | C | E below. NOTE:Each of these PowerPoint files is about 1MB.

This web page provides the viewer with a step-by-step "how to" and a lot of related poster design advice as well. If you are a Georgia Southern University faculty or staff member you can print your instructional/teaching resource here at the CET for free. Contact us by phone (681-0049) or e-mail (cet@georgiasouthern.edu) to make an appointment. Please allow at least 24 hours (M-F) notice. Sorry, we do not have glossy (photo quality) paper and we do not laminate posters.

Step-by-step HOW TO tutorial page

WORKSHOP FILES/RESOURCES

The Microsoft Design Gallery Live website provides an enormous (and ever growing) selection of clipart, images and other media for your use. Search the archive by keyword. Check the items you want to download and they are added to your Clipart Gallery for access via any Microsoft program.

Georgia Southern Logo Images (right-click any image to save or copy it)
View GUIDELINES (a PDF file) for using Georgia Southern University Trademarks



High Res Jpeg of Eagle (good for backgrounds) 1MB (Half Eagles [top/bottom/left/right] available in two-slide PowerPoint templates).

 

Campus Photos (more can be downloaded at:
http://news.georgiasouthern.edu/screen_saver.htm)

Practice Importing/Copying Text--

About Georgia Southern University: Text File | Word Document