Struggling with designing a poster in Powerpoint.

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I'm trying to make a poster for a conference using a template that a colleague has used before. It's essentially a Poewerpoint file and I can't get the title of the poster to look how I want it to. It's a long title and I want it centralised within a text box. Whenever I do this I end up with one word on the bottom line of 3 with a relatively big gap between this line and the other two.

How can I make the gaps equal and it look central but without one word on the last line? I've tried altering the paragraph spacing but it still looks rubbish.

Why not use Publisher?

can you break the title down into seperate text boxes?

Can you make the font smaller? Alter the master slide (go to slide view / master)?

My consultant gave me the template and said "use this, it'll be fine, just do a bit each evening...I couldn't bloody sleep the other night because I had done nothing so thought I'd make a start tonight.

I've never used Publisher before, I don't have iot on this PC and not every PC at work will have it either...

I will try seperate text boxes.

I HATE it when you want to do something apparently simple and it takes half an hour!

I'm not sure if this will help but I have used this forum before to get advice about animating pie-charts. Fascinating I know.

www.themssforum.com/forum/Powerpoint/

I did it... though I'm not sure how or if I could do it again . It looks ok now, well that bit does. Anyone want to write my discussion and conclusions for me???

Do you know anyone who has done a few posters? It may just take a few seconds for someone familiar with using powerpoint in that way to fix it.
I would try the separate text boxes too.
Alternatively making the box smaller or changing the font size may force it to rejig the positioning of the words.

Sorry, cross-post!

For future reference it may be something to do with your text box format. Wrap text? Try disabling that option. Left click to get your list up. Hard to say without seeing it as I dont have powerpoint on this pc, and only basic microsoft works (rubbish cheapo version of office).

dur, right click I meant to say.