Also, most posters use a portrait orientation (higher than they are wide), but the default slide size is landscape. That won’t work for your poster, so you need to change it.
The default slide size is 10 inches wide by 7-1/2 inches high (at least in the United States). Note: At the end of this blog post, get a free download of templates for the 2 posters I created for this post! Set the slide size
(This is an update of a similar post on creating posters in PowerPoint 20.) Let’s create a couple of posters in PowerPoint 2013. Do you create posters for personal or business use? Many people use Microsoft Word for this purpose, but PowerPoint offers more graphic features and greater flexibility in placing your text and images.
