"Techie" Helps

To Save and Insert a Picture from a Web Page:

1. If your picture is on the internet, do a right click on the picture and choose Save Image As.  Save it onto your disk.
2. To insert your picture in your poster, open your poster file.  Select Insert on the bar at the top of the screen.  Click on Picture, and From File.  Locate your file in the "A" drive and select it by double clicking on it.  The picture will appear on your poster file.
3. You may find that you still want to re-position your picture.  You may move it by dragging it with the mouse.  Move the mouse across the picture until the moving van or an arrow cross that points up, down, right, and left appears.  Then drag the picture to the correct position by holding the left mouse button down as you move the picture to the desired location.

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Using MS Word
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Using MS Publisher

    The main difference between MS Word and MS Publisher is that with MS Word you are ready to type when the page opens.  In MS Publisher it is necessary to create a window where you want to type in your words.  This software makes working with pictures and text much easier to control.  The picture stays where you put it.  You can place your text exactly where you want it without having to space down and around pictures, etc.  A picture can be dragged into a text box and the text will automatically align around it.  Be sure your cursor is not inside a text box when you try to insert a picture.  You can drag it there later, but MS Publisher can not insert a picture directly into a text box.

To make your poster with MS Publisher do the following:

1. Open a publisher file by selecting the publisher icon on the desktop or by selecting Start, Programs, Publisher.
2. If your first screen directs you to select a publication type, click on the "Blank Publication" tab.  Then choose "Blank Page."
3. You will notice a light blue and light pink box around the page.  It is, by default, one inch from the edge of the page, and it is for you to use as a guide for your margins.  It will not print on your paper.
4. To insert your author's picture into your poster use the instructions at the top of this page.
5. To increase or decrease the size of your picture, click on one of the corners of the picture and drag it in or out until the picture is the size you want.  Do not click on the square "handles" in the middle of the sides, top, or bottom or you will simply make your picture fatter or taller and it will end up out of proportion.
6. To move the picture around on the page, move the mouse over the picture until you see the picture of a moving van or an arrow cross that points up, down, right, and left.  Then drag the picture to the correct position by holding the left mouse button down as you move the picture to the desired location.
7. To enter text on the poster make a text box by clicking on the icon with a normal capitol "A" on it.  Then click on the page holding the left button down until the box is the size you want it.  The text box can be resized and moved around the same way you resize and move a picture.  You can put any number of text boxes on your poster, or you can use one large text box and use the enter key to space down and leave blank places in your text box for pictures.

   
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