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Academic Posters

  Academic Posters in PowerPoint (Written and Video Guides)

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  Hint: Use this to change the instructions for your particular device (it will save your setting automatically)


Changing Slide Size

Head to the 'Design' tab, click 'Slide Size' on the far right, and then click 'Custom Slide Size'.

 

A red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Design' tab on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows, which is currently open and selected on the screenshot.
A red box and red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Slide Size' button, on the 'Design' tab, which has been clicked. There is another red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Custom Slide Size' option on the expanded 'Slide Size' menu, on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows.

 

Enter the width and height that your poster needs to be (dimensions can be found below the two screenshots), click 'OK', and then click the 'Ensure Fit' button.

 

A screenshot of the 'Slide Size' dialog on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows, with a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Width' and 'Height' boxes, with a green box and a green arrow highlighting and pointing at the 'OK' button on the dialog.
A red box and a red arrow highlighting and pointing at the 'Ensure Fit' button on PowerPoint.

 

  Hint: The dimensions below are for Portrait posters, if you need a Landscape poster, swap the Width and Height dimensions or click the 'Landscape' option on the 'Custom Slide Size' dialog.
  • A0
    • Width: 84.1 cm
    • Height: 118.9 cm

 

  • A1
    • Width: 59.4 cm
    • Height: 84.1 cm

 

  • A2
    • Width: 42.0 cm
    • Height: 59.4 cm

 

  • A3
    • Width: 29.7 cm
    • Height: 42.0 cm

 

  • A4
    • Width: 21.0 cm
    • Height: 29.7 cm

 

For more dimensions, we recommend the two sites Papersizes.io and Papersizes.org, both sites allow you to view the dimensions of all paper sizes and types, in addition to changing the units they are displayed in.

  Hint: On both websites, the units option is a dropdown displayed in the top-right of the webpage.

After clicking 'Ensure Fit', your slide will resize to the dimensions you have entered, and you are now ready to start creating your Academic Poster. Below you will find some recommendations and advice.

 

Recommended font sizes

 Note: Depending on the size of your poster, there are some recommended font sizes for you to use and those are listed below. Additionally, for a font, you will want to keep the font nice and clear, for example, Arial, Aptos, or Calibri.
  • A0
    • Headings/Titles: 96 - 125 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 44 - 60 pt

 

  • A1
    • Headings/Titles: 72 - 96 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 32 - 44 pt

 

  • A2
    • Headings/Titles: 60 - 72 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 24 - 32 pt

 

  • A3
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 60 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 18 - 24 pt

 

  • A4
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 28 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 14 - 18 pt

 

Further Recommendations

Using shapes instead of 'Text boxes'

When adding content to your Poster, it is advisable to use 'Shapes' as opposed to 'Text boxes', the reason for this is because shapes allow you to lay out your Poster and freely adjust the width and height of the shape, whereas a text box only allows you to adjust the width and will automatically adjust the height when you start typing, an example image is displayed below.

 

A screenshot showing a comparison between shapes and text boxes. In the screenshot, there is a dark blue and green square that are exactly the same size, and a text box to the right of these shapes that is not the same height to show that text boxes can't be manually adjusted.

 

  Please Explain: The reason why this is a problem is because it doesn't allow you the freedom to manually adjust exactly how your poster looks, for example, maybe you only have a small paragraph in a shape, but you want that shape to take up a bit more room for symmetry for example, with a text box, you can't adjust the height, but with a shape you can.

Inserting items on an Academic Poster

As mentioned above, it is recommended to use shapes as opposed to text boxes, however, you're of course not limited to only inserting shapes and there are a variety of items that you can insert into your academic poster.

As shown below, clicking on the 'Insert' menu will display many, many options, but don't be intimidated as you only need to focus on 6 of the 26 items on the 'Insert menu' (Excluding the slide buttons and add-ins).

 

A screenshot of the Insert tab on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows. There are red boxes highlighting the 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart' buttons.

 

Highlighted above, the only tools that you will more than likely need to use is 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart'.

If you would like information on how to use each one in a written format, please see the links below to the Microsoft support pages, however, for a video format, you can follow Part 3 in the videos listed further down.







 

Saving and Exporting in PowerPoint

 Note: As with all assignments, you are responsible for the files you create, and your lecturers will not accept an excuse of 'loss of files' as there are many available backup methods that you can use to save your work, and you should ensure you have multiple copies/backup's available in the event of a technical issue.

For PowerPoint files, it is always recommended to save your files to OneDrive, whether that being your personal or student OneDrive, this is because not only will 'Autosave' be enabled, meaning any change you make is automatically saved to OneDrive, but you will have your PowerPoint available anywhere that you can access OneDrive on the internet.

 

To save to OneDrive, head to 'File', choose 'Save As', and pick 'OneDrive'.

 Note: Make sure the dropdown underneath the file box says 'PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)', if it doesn't, click the dropdown and change it to this option, otherwise you will not be able to use 'AutoSave', and you may have issues with uploading to Turnitin.

 

A screenshot of the backstage of PowerPoint on the desktop version for Windows. On the screenshot, there is a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Save As' option, which has been clicked. On the 'Save As' page, there is an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the OneDrive option, which has been clicked. Finally, there is a green box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting both the 'File Name' box, and the 'File Format' dropdown, which has been clicked to expand the list; on the dropdown, the option that is currently selected is the 'PowerPoint Presentation, p p t x'.

 

Then click 'Save', after saving you should notice the 'AutoSave' switch is 'On' (in the top-left of the screen), leave this on so that all changes are automatically saved.

 

A screenshot of the desktop version of PowerPoint for windows, which is currently focused at the top-left of the screen, and has a black box highlighting the 'AutoSave' switch, which is currently on, beneath it, there is a green arrow pointing at the AutoSave switch to indicate where it is located, which is the top-left of PowerPoint.

 

To Export your PowerPoint file, head to 'File', choose 'Export', and either select 'Create PDF/XPS Document', (and then press the 'Create PDF/XPS' button).

 

A screenshot of the 'Export' screen on the backstage of PowerPoint for Windows. On the screenshot there is a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Export' button, which has been selected, with an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Create PDF/XPS Document' which has been selected. Finally, there is a green box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Create PDF/XPS' button.

 

Or, you can click 'Change File Type', and choose PNG or JPEG, if you would like to export your file as an image.

 

A screenshot of the 'Export' screen on the backstage of PowerPoint for Windows. On the screenshot there is a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Export' button, which has been selected, with an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Change File Type' button, which has been selected. There is also a dark blue box and a dark blue arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Image File Type' options, which currently has the PNG option selected. Finally, there is a green box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Save As' button.

 

Choose a location for either your PDF or Image and click 'Publish' for the PDF or 'Save' for the image file, the file will then be saved to the location you choose.

 

A screenshot of the 'Publish a PDF or XPS' file dialog on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows. On the screenshot, the file is named as 'File underscore Backup dot P D F', the publish button is currently highlighted, indicating that this button should be pressed.
A screenshot of the 'Save As' file dialog on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Windows. On the screenshot, the file is named as 'File underscore Backup dot P N G', the Save button is currently highlighted, indicating that this button should be pressed.

 

If you export an image, you will be asked if you want to save 'All Slides' or 'Just this one', if you pick 'All Slides', PowerPoint will automatically create a folder in your chosen location and save all of the slides as images within that folder.

  Hint: There is no right or wrong choice as it is entirely up to you how you would like to export your slides, as either just the one (currently selected) slide, or all slides in PowerPoint.

 

A screenshot to show the dialog that opens in the desktop version of PowerPoint for windows, which is asking 'Which slides do you want to export?', the dialog has three buttons, 'All Slides', 'Just This One', or 'Cancel'.

 

 

  Next Steps: You are now ready to start designing your Leaflet, if you need support in using the tools in PowerPoint, please see our video guides listed below that walk through each of the tools. Keep in mind that despite the guides being for 'PowerPoint presentations' the tools are still the same for leaflets so the same instructions apply.

Changing Slide Size

Head to the 'Design' tab, click 'Slide Size' on the far right, and then click 'Page Setup'.

 

A red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Design' tab on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac, which is currently open and selected on the screenshot.
A red box and red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Slide Size' button, on the 'Design' tab, which has been clicked. There is a green box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Custom Slide Size' option on the expanded 'Page Setup' menu, on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac.

 

Enter the width and height that your poster needs to be (dimensions can be found below the two screenshots). If you need to change the orientation of your Poster, you can click any of the two buttons under the 'Orientation' and 'Slides' option, the button to the left is for Portrait, and the button to the right is Landscape, when you are happy, click 'OK', and then click the 'Scale' option.

 

A screenshot of the 'Page Setup' dialog on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac, with a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Width' and 'Height' boxes, with an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the slide orientation buttons, finally, there is a green box and a green arrow highlighting and pointing at the 'OK' button on the dialog.
A green box and a green arrow highlighting and pointing at the 'Scale' button on PowerPoint.

 

  Hint: The dimensions below are for Portrait posters, if you need a Landscape poster, swap the Width and Height dimensions or click the 'Landscape' option on the 'Custom Slide Size' dialog.
  • A0
    • Width: 84.1 cm
    • Height: 118.9 cm

 

  • A1
    • Width: 59.4 cm
    • Height: 84.1 cm

 

  • A2
    • Width: 42.0 cm
    • Height: 59.4 cm

 

  • A3
    • Width: 29.7 cm
    • Height: 42.0 cm

 

  • A4
    • Width: 21.0 cm
    • Height: 29.7 cm

 

For more dimensions, we recommend the two sites Papersizes.io and Papersizes.org, both sites allow you to view the dimensions of all paper sizes and types, in addition to changing the units they are displayed in.

  Hint: On both websites, the units option is a dropdown displayed in the top-right of the webpage.

After clicking 'Ensure Fit', your slide will resize to the dimensions you have entered, and you are now ready to start creating your Academic Poster. Below you will find some recommendations and advice.

 

Recommended font sizes

 Note: Depending on the size of your poster, there are some recommended font sizes for you to use and those are listed below. Additionally, for a font, you will want to keep the font nice and clear, for example, Arial, Aptos, or Calibri.
  • A0
    • Headings/Titles: 96 - 125 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 44 - 60 pt

 

  • A1
    • Headings/Titles: 72 - 96 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 32 - 44 pt

 

  • A2
    • Headings/Titles: 60 - 72 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 24 - 32 pt

 

  • A3
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 60 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 18 - 24 pt

 

  • A4
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 28 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 14 - 18 pt

 

Further Recommendations

Using shapes instead of 'Text boxes'

When adding content to your Poster, it is advisable to use 'Shapes' as opposed to 'Text boxes', the reason for this is because shapes allow you to lay out your Poster and freely adjust the width and height of the shape, whereas a text box only allows you to adjust the width and will automatically adjust the height when you start typing, an example image is displayed below.

 

A screenshot showing a comparison between shapes and text boxes. In the screenshot, there is a dark blue and green square that are exactly the same size, and a text box to the right of these shapes that is not the same height to show that text boxes can't be manually adjusted.

 

  Please Explain: The reason why this is a problem is because it doesn't allow you the freedom to manually adjust exactly how your poster looks, for example, maybe you only have a small paragraph in a shape, but you want that shape to take up a bit more room for symmetry for example, with a text box, you can't adjust the height, but with a shape you can.

Inserting items on an Academic Poster

As mentioned above, it is recommended to use shapes as opposed to text boxes, however, you're of course not limited to only inserting shapes and there are a variety of items that you can insert into your academic poster.

As shown below, clicking on the 'Insert' menu will display many, many options, but don't be intimidated as you only need to focus on 6 of the 26 items on the 'Insert menu' (Excluding the slide buttons and add-ins).

 

A screenshot of the Insert tab on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac. There are red boxes highlighting the 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart' buttons.

 

Highlighted above, the only tools that you will more than likely need to use is 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart'.

If you would like information on how to use each one in a written format, please see the links below to the Microsoft support pages, however, for a video format, you can follow Part 3 in the videos listed further down.

 
 Note: Most of the guides linked below will take you to a page where you will need to select the 'Mac OS' tab to view the specific Mac instructions, however, some guides do not have tabs because the steps on Mac are similar to the steps on Windows. We do not have any control over these guides as they are written by Microsoft, however, we have verified that you can follow the steps provided in the guides.






 

Saving and Exporting in PowerPoint

 Note: As with all assignments, you are responsible for the files you create, and your lecturers will not accept an excuse of 'loss of files' as there are many available backup methods that you can use to save your work, and you should ensure you have multiple copies/backup's available in the event of a technical issue.

For PowerPoint files, it is always recommended to save your files to OneDrive, whether that being your personal or student OneDrive, this is because not only will 'Autosave' be enabled, meaning any change you make is automatically saved to OneDrive, but you will have your PowerPoint available anywhere that you can access OneDrive on the internet.

 

To save to OneDrive, head to 'File', choose 'Save As'.

 

A screenshot of an open 'File' menu on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac. On the screenshot the 'File' menu has been highlighted with a red box, and a green arrow is pointing at the open menu. Further down, there is another red box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Save as' option, which has been hovered over with the mouse, within the same 'File' Menu.

 

Then, make sure that 'OneDrive' is selected in the 'Place' dropdown.

 Note: Make sure the 'File Format' dropdown underneath the 'Place' dropdown says 'PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)', if it doesn't, click the dropdown and change it to this option, otherwise you will not be able to use 'AutoSave', and you may have issues with uploading to Turnitin.

 

A screenshot of the 'Save As' dialog on the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac, which currently has a red arrow pointing at the 'Name' box, which has the title 'File, underscore, Backup' in the box. Further down, there is a dark blue arrow pointing at the 'Place' dropdown, which has been clicked on to expand the options, the 'OneDrive' option has been selected. Finally, there is a green arrow pointing at the 'Save' button in the bottom left of the 'Save as' dialog.

 

Then click 'Save', after saving you should notice the 'AutoSave' switch is 'On' (in the top-left of the screen), leave this on so that all changes are automatically saved.

 

A screenshot of the desktop version of PowerPoint for Mac, which is currently focused at the top-left of the screen, and has a red box highlighting the 'AutoSave' switch, which is currently on, beneath it, there is a green arrow pointing at the AutoSave switch to indicate where it is located, which is the top-left of PowerPoint.

 

To Export your PowerPoint file, head to 'File', choose 'Export'.

 

 

Then, if you would like to export your file as a 'PDF', double-check to make sure that the 'File Format' dropdown box currently says 'PDF', and then click 'Export'.

 

 

If you would like to export your slides as an image instead, you can click the 'File Format' dropdown, and choose either PNG or JPEG, and then click 'Export'.

 

 

 

  Next Steps: You are now ready to start designing your Leaflet, if you need support in using the tools in PowerPoint, please see our video guides listed below that walk through each of the tools. Keep in mind that despite the guides being for 'PowerPoint presentations' the tools are still the same for leaflets so the same instructions apply.

Changing Slide Size

Head to the 'Design' tab, click 'Slide Size' on the far right, and then click 'Custom Slide Size'.

 

A red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Design' tab on the online version of PowerPoint, which is currently open and selected on the screenshot.
A red box and red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Slide Size' button, on the 'Design' tab, which has been clicked. There is another red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Custom Slide Size' option on the expanded 'Slide Size' menu, on the online version of PowerPoint.

 

Enter the width and height that your poster needs to be (dimensions can be found below the screenshot). If you need to change the orientation of your Poster, you can click either the 'Landscape' or 'Portrait' options under the 'Slide Orientation' option, leave the default option of 'Scale to Fit' selected, and, when you are happy, click 'OK'.

 

 

 

  Hint: The dimensions below are for Portrait posters, if you need a Landscape poster, swap the Width and Height dimensions or click the 'Landscape' option on the 'Custom Slide Size' dialog.

 

 Note: The online version of PowerPoint uses 'Inches' instead of 'Centimetres' used on the desktop version, so please use the dimensions below for the online version of PowerPoint.

 

  • A0
    • Width: 33.1" (inches)
    • Height: 46.8" (inches)

 

  • A1
    • Width: 23.4" (Inches)
    • Height: 33.1" (Inches)

 

  • A2
    • Width: 16.5" (Inches)
    • Height: 23.4" (Inches)

 

  • A3
    • Width: 11.7" (Inches)
    • Height: 16.5" (Inches)

 

  • A4
    • Width: 8.3" (Inches)
    • Height: 11.7" (Inches)

 

For more dimensions, we recommend the two sites Papersizes.io and Papersizes.org, both sites allow you to view the dimensions of all paper sizes and types, in addition to changing the units they are displayed in.

  Hint: On both websites, the units option is a dropdown displayed in the top-right of the webpage.

After clicking 'Ensure Fit', your slide will resize to the dimensions you have entered, and you are now ready to start creating your Academic Poster. Below you will find some recommendations and advice.

 

Recommended font sizes

 Note: Depending on the size of your poster, there are some recommended font sizes for you to use and those are listed below. Additionally, for a font, you will want to keep the font nice and clear, for example, Arial, Aptos, or Calibri.
  • A0
    • Headings/Titles: 96 - 125 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 44 - 60 pt

 

  • A1
    • Headings/Titles: 72 - 96 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 32 - 44 pt

 

  • A2
    • Headings/Titles: 60 - 72 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 24 - 32 pt

 

  • A3
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 60 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 18 - 24 pt

 

  • A4
    • Headings/Titles: 40 - 28 pt
    • Standard/Body Text: 14 - 18 pt

 

Further Recommendations

Using shapes instead of 'Text boxes'

When adding content to your Poster, it is advisable to use 'Shapes' as opposed to 'Text boxes', the reason for this is because shapes allow you to lay out your Poster and freely adjust the width and height of the shape, whereas a text box only allows you to adjust the width and will automatically adjust the height when you start typing, an example image is displayed below.

 

A screenshot showing a comparison between shapes and text boxes. In the screenshot, there is a dark blue and green square that are exactly the same size, and a text box to the right of these shapes that is not the same height to show that text boxes can't be manually adjusted.

 

  Please Explain: The reason why this is a problem is because it doesn't allow you the freedom to manually adjust exactly how your poster looks, for example, maybe you only have a small paragraph in a shape, but you want that shape to take up a bit more room for symmetry for example, with a text box, you can't adjust the height, but with a shape you can.

Inserting items on an Academic Poster

As mentioned above, it is recommended to use shapes as opposed to text boxes, however, you're of course not limited to only inserting shapes and there are a variety of items that you can insert into your academic poster.

As shown below, clicking on the 'Insert' menu will display many, many options, but don't be intimidated as you only need to focus on 7 of the 15 items on the 'Insert menu' (Excluding the slide buttons).

 

A screenshot of the Insert tab on the online version of PowerPoint. There are red boxes highlighting the 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Stock Images', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart' buttons.

 

Highlighted above, the only tools that you will more than likely need to use is 'Table', 'Pictures', 'Shapes', 'Stock Images', 'Icons', 'SmartArt', and 'Chart'.

If you would like information on how to use each one in a written format, please see the links below to the Microsoft support pages, however, for a video format, you can follow Part 3 in the videos listed further down.

 
 Note: Most of the guides linked below will take you to a page where you will need to select the 'Online' tab to view the specific online version instructions, however, some guides do not have tabs because the steps on the online version are similar to the steps on Windows. We do not have any control over these guides as they are written by Microsoft, however, we have verified that you can follow the steps provided in the guides.






 

Saving and Exporting in PowerPoint

 Note: As with all assignments, you are responsible for the files you create, and your lecturers will not accept an excuse of 'loss of files' as there are many available backup methods that you can use to save your work, and you should ensure you have multiple copies/backup's available in the event of a technical issue.

For the online version of PowerPoint, you do not need to worry about 'Saving' your files like how you would on the desktop version, as files are automatically saved to your OneDrive from the moment you create the file.

 

This is indicated by the cloud icon with a green tick, which will appear to the right of the file name in the top-left of the PowerPoint screen, additionally, when you click 'File' you will also see a green message which says that the File is 'AutoSaved online to' a specific location.

 

A screenshot of the top-left of the online version of PowerPoint, which currently has a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting an icon of a cloud with a green circle and a tick inside the circle next to the cloud icon. Slightly further down the screenshot, there is a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the green message which says 'Autosaved online to Documents', inside the File menu on the online version of PowerPoint, which has been opened.

 

 Note: In order to submit your file to Turnitin, you will need to download your file from the online version, to do this, follow the steps listed below.

 

Click 'File' and then, to download your file as a standard PPTX (PowerPoint) file, choose 'Create a Copy' and then 'Download a copy'.

 

A screenshot of the top-left of the online version of PowerPoint, which has a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'File' menu, which is currently expanded in the screenshot. Further down the screenshot, there is an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Create a copy' option on the same file menu, which has been hovered over to expand a new menu. On this new menu, there is a green box and a green arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Download a copy' option.

 

To download your file as a PDF or as images, click on 'File' and then choose 'Export' and then 'Download as PDF', or 'Export to Images'.

 

A screenshot of the top-left of the online version of PowerPoint, which has a red box and a red arrow pointing and highlighting the 'File' menu, which is currently expanded in the screenshot. Further down the screenshot, there is an orange box and an orange arrow pointing and highlighting the 'Export' option on the same file menu, which has been hovered over to expand a new menu. On this new menu, there are two green boxes and green arrows pointing and highlighting both the 'Download as PDF' option, and the 'Export to images' option.


 

  Next Steps: You are now ready to start designing your Leaflet, if you need support in using the tools in PowerPoint, please see our video guides listed below that walk through each of the tools. Keep in mind that despite the guides being for 'PowerPoint presentations' the tools are still the same for leaflets so the same instructions apply.

Guidance

Below, you will find our written and video guides on creating an Academic Poster in PowerPoint, please keep in mind that the written guide is very brief and only explains how to configure your slide size and includes some tips, please see our video guides for further details/information.

We offer our guides in both a written and video format, with the written versions being available as a Word Document (.docx), and a PDF, please download the version that you prefer.

Written Guides

Please find below the Word and PDF versions of the written guides for this section, click on the download button to immediately download either the Word Document or the PDF.

Quick Guide - Creating an Academic Poster - 24-25 (Word Document)

Quick Guide - Creating an Academic Poster - 24-25 (PDF)

 

Video Guides

  Hint: We have designed our video guides to be quick to follow, however, we understand if you don't want to/need to watch the entire thing, so you can skip to specific parts of the video without feeling lost.
  Please Explain: Above each video, you will be told how long the entire video is, and what times specific sections of the video are at (including how long that part is) so that you can skip around if needed.

 

Creating a PowerPoint file, resizing to a poster size, and saving your file

Total video length: 3:31

Chapters in video:

  • Introduction and Creating a Slide: 00:00 (10 seconds long)
  • Resizing your slide to a poster size: 00:10 (1 minute 26 seconds long)
  • Saving your Poster to OneDrive: 01:36 (15 seconds long)
  • Tips for creating a poster (Removing default title slide boxes, and using shapes as opposed to text boxes): 01:51 (1 minute 40 seconds long)
  • END OF VIDEO - 03:31

 

 Note: Where the videos listed below are for presentations, the information is still relevant to academic posters as the tools in the 'Insert' and 'Home' tab do not change when creating an Academic Poster.

Basic formatting and design

Total video length: 5:20

Chapters in video:

  • Introduction: 00:00 (49 seconds long)
  • Displaying the Ribbon (and 'missing' buttons): 00:49 (31 seconds long)
  • Basic formatting: 01:20 (41 seconds long)
  • Advice: "Avoid using unnecessary formatting": 02:01 (28 seconds long)
  • Paragraph settings (left, right, centre, bullet points, etc.): 02:29 (32 seconds long)
  • Basic Design (Using themes): 03:01 (20 seconds long) -- Please skip this part as using themes is not always recommended when creating Academic Posters.
  • Adjusting background colour: 03:46 (1 minute 28 seconds long)
  • END OF VIDEO - 05:20

 

Inserting images, tables, charts, SmartArt, icons, and shapes

Total video length: 10:42

Chapters in video:

  • Introduction: 00:00 (49 seconds long)
  • Displaying the Ribbon (and 'missing' buttons): 00:49 (35 seconds long)
  • Inserting images: 01:24 (1 minute 53 seconds long)
  • Inserting tables and charts: 03:17 (2 minutes 17 seconds long)
  • Using SmartArt: 05:34 (2 minutes 33 seconds long)
  • Creating Icons: 08:07 (51 seconds long)
  • Creating Shapes: 08:58 (1 minute 42 seconds long)
  • END OF VIDEO - 10:42
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This guide was last updated: Apr 16, 2025 11:59 AM