INSERT HORIZONTAL LINE WORD 2013 HOW TO

(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.

INSERT HORIZONTAL LINE WORD 2013 HOW TO

If you see a dialog box asking you to choose how to scale (you’ll have a choice of Maximize or Ensure Fit), you can choose either one, because your poster doesn’t have any content in it yet.

In the Orientation section, choose Portrait for the slides, as you see here.

From the Slides Sized For drop-down list, choose the size of the paper you’ll use to print the poster.

In the Customize group on the right, click Slide Size, then Custom Slide Size.

In PowerPoint 2013, click the Design tab.

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.

Insert horizontal line word 2013