Excell+Poster

I am sure everyone had made poster for class, maybe work or any other occasion. Do you guys remember how much time it used to take from us? First of all you needed to drive from store to store and find necessary tools for your project, where now, thanks to Excel you can simply do it in 30 min. All you need is imagination and you are ready to go. Excel will make your poster look better, more efficient, neat and clear.

=__Let set up Excel program so that when you are going to be ready to print, you can do so.__= Our next steps are going to allow us to print 8.5” x 11 sheet. If you will work on the first four rectangles, it will allow you produce poster 17” x 22” big. If you wish you can expend you imagination and your poster. It all depends on you.

First of all you need to open blank Excel document (go to start, then all program Microsoft Office and click Microsoft Excel.) In the very beginning you need to set up pages so it will print properly. Go to page layout tab, then click on the page setup dialog box launcher, and make sure you are on the page command. Where it says scaling- adjust to, change it to 200%. Then go to margins command and change all the margins to .5” and the header and footer to 0”, then click ok. Next in the view tab, click the zoom button change it to 50%, click ok. It allows you to see your file more accurately. Now, you have your Excel spreadsheet setup to work on the poster. You are going to notice line thru your excel document, each of these rectangles represents 8.5” x 11” sheet of printed paper.

=__Let go and create new poster now.__=

Go to insert tab click on WordArt and choose any style you would like, click on it and type your title. You can position the title anywhere you want. You can also edit it the way you want. When you right click on the WordArt and go to format text effects there are many options that useful in editing the title. You can resize your title, change the color of the border (if any), and add shape effect and many other. Now go to insert tab again. Click on the clip art button. Enter the subject into search window, and click go. Choose the appropriate clip art, by right clicking on the picture and clicking insert. Locate the picture where you want it to be and now you can resize it as well as edit if you would like. Play around with all the options they gave you. If necessary you can also insert text box. Text box is also located in the insert tab on your right. Then click on the appropriate location where you want the text be. Drag box with the perfect size for you and type your text. Type the most important information and key words. The text box you can edit and make it look according to the needs of poster. All the editing options are on the top of the ribbon, and make it look unique. If you would like to you can set border on your whole poster. To do this you have to highlight the poster right click, choose format cells, click on the border command and choose outline, you can also change the style and the color of the border, and then click ok. When you are done with editing my file, now you can click on the print preview button located in the Microsoft Office Button arrow right next to Print, you can see each page separately, and how it is cut off so that they overlap a little bit, and when you print them out you can tape them or glue them together so they make this 17” x 22”. ​

I found this very helpful. It does save a lot of time. You can just simply copy, paste, and type images and information that you want on the poster.

How about you? Did you ever think of using Excel as a program to prepare something like this? Excel gives us many options to choose from. I am right?

I hope that will help all of you. Magda Czochara