1. Select This Text and Type Your Title Here Select This Text and Continue Your Title Here Student Name, Student Mentor Name, Mentor Department Name Fairmont State University Purpose of Study When you have the text written to your satisfaction, make sure you have the formatting of the text correct. Use a left aligned format for a clean look. The text needs to be indented 0.5 inches. To do this, go to the Format drop-down menu, choose Paragraph and under the Indentation category type in 0.5 in the Before Text box. Results Be sure to have someone other than yourself carefully read your text before you send your file to be printed. Poster size prints are expensive and typos, misspellings, poor grammar, etc. are better caught before the file has been printed. Abstract Approved Fonts and Colors FONTS: Arial Palatino COLORS: Maroon: RGB values: 134, 0, 56 Gold: RGB values: 253, 185, 19 ACCENT COLORS: Dark Maroon: RGB values: 94, 0, 31 Grey: RGB values: 173, 175, 178 Yellow: RGB values: 255, 221, 0 Green: RGB values: 193, 216, 47 Orange: RGB values: 245, 128, 37 Red: RGB values: 238, 49, 36 Aqua: RGB values: 0, 177, 176 Blue: RGB values: 2, 108, 182 NOTE: These colors are already in this template’s color scheme. Our primary colors are maroon and white. We use gold as our secondary color. The accent colors are ones we use in our palette for variety. View our web site for how we use them. Uncalibrated monitors may not display these colors accurately. Introduction Use the pre-made text boxes for each section of your poster. The pre-made text boxes are grouped with the headings they are under to maintain alignment. To move these groups click anywhere in the paragraph text box under the heading you want moved, then click the outer most box that is highlighted (your cursor will look like four arrows) -- that will select the paragraph text box, the black line and the headline text box at the same time -- click and drag to where you want the information to be located on the poster. If you need a new text box you can insert one by going to the Insert pull-down menu and selecting Text Box. You will get a cursor; place it anywhere on the screen and start typing. The fill color should be set to No fill and the line color should be set to No line. There should be no border on the text boxes. The font color should be black and the font size should be something that will be visible from 4 feet away (25 point minimum). Materials and Methods There are different background colors that you can choose to use. To do this, go to the toolbar on the Home tab, under Slides click the drop down arrow beside New Slide. The slides are named by the color of their background. Choose the color you want by clicking on it. If you change your mind or want to see a different color background go to the toolbar under the Home tab, under Slides click the drop down arrow beside Layout. Choose the color you want by clicking on it. Conclusions Do not distort (squash or stretch) the Fairmont State logo. Hold SHIFT when enlarging or reducing the graphics to constrain the proportions. Do not remove the logo from the top left of this poster. This template is for a 30 x 38 inches mat board or foamcore mounted poster. EXAMPLE