You should see the mini toolbar if not, right-click the text to display it. When you’re done, drag across the text to select it.
(All uppercase letters are another poor choice for most presentations, because they are harder to read, but remember, this is only one slide!) If you want all uppercase letters, press the Caps Lock key. Don’t worry that the text box doesn’t pay attention to the height when you drag it will adjust when you add text.
A border isn’t necessary, so skip this section if you don’t want one. Once you find something you like, creating the poster will be much easier. While we’re talking about layout, it’s a good idea to sketch your poster’s layout in advance, using regular ol’ pencil and paper. You now have a tabula rasa, a blank slate. With your mouse cursor not on any slide object, right-click and choose Layout> Blank. See “ Create consistent slides with layouts.“) (I rarely suggest that for a business presentation with multiple slides, because it’s hard to get a consistent look, but you’ll only be creating one slide/poster. The existing layouts will most likely not be useful for you, so choose the Blank layout and start from scratch. Your slide now looks very different from it’s typical shape and size! But now it looks more like it’s ready to be a poster. This is a new feature of PowerPoint 2013 that helps you resize slides, especially between standard and wide-screen formats, but it isn’t relevant when there isn’t existing content.
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.