In the Page Setup dialog, enter the dimensions of your poster. Next set your poster size by clicking on the Themes tab, then click on 'Page Setup' Slide Size' and choose 'Page Setup.'. (You can also delete them by selecting them (click and drag over the them with the mouse cursor) and pressing the delete key. This will remove the 'Title' and 'Subtitle' text boxes on the slide, with you probably don't need to use.

Then click on the Slides Layout drop-down menu and then click on the 'Blank' thumbnail. Above the toolbar is a row of tabs (Home, Themes, Tables, Charts, etc.)Ĭlick the Home tab. By default, it shows text entry boxes for a title slide.Ībove the document window, a formatting toolbar or 'ribbon' appears. Or you can go to the File menu and choose 'New Presentation' or 'Open.'.Ī new PowerPoint document appears. Or if you are editing a presentation you previously created you can click on its name in the 'Recent Presentations' at the bottom of the left-hand column of the window.Īlternatively, you can click 'Cancel' and a new, blank presentation will appear. In most cases (unless you have previously created a template you want to use), choose to create a new presentation with a white background by clicking the 'White' thumbnail in the list of themes. The 'Powerpoint Presentation Gallery' appears. Getting StartedĬlick on the PowerPoint icon in the dock, or double-click on the 'Microsoft Powerpoint.app' in the Applications folder on your Macintosh. The following are steps and techniques to get you started creating your poster in PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2016 includes a few new features. Features unique to 2016 are identified below by the highlighted text New for 2016. Screenshots from the 2011 version may differ slightly from the 2016 version but the features work the same way. NOTE: PowerPoint for Macintosh versions 2016 and 2011 are very similar. This section describes both. When you create a poster with PowerPoint, you are creating the poster on only ONE slide (a very large slide). But it can also be used to create a poster. Microsoft PowerPoint was originally designed for creating slide presentations, not posters.

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