Design Like A Pro: Creating Stunning Posters on Google Docs

Posters are a great way to advertise and market products, places, or any event. Posters provide an easy way out to catch as many eyeballs as you want. Creating stunning standout posters helps in clear communication of what you want to say to the public around you.

The public responds to your message and engages with your organization/idea in a much deeper way. Google Docs is the go-to platform for many people to draft important writeups. In this piece, we will also discuss the process of creating posters on Google Docs.

How to Make a Poster on Google Docs

Google Docs is your regular day-to-day cloud-based software program that works almost the same as MS Word that you may have been using for a long. It is very popular among marketers, content writers, ad writers, and copywriters.

If you are professionally engaged in writing you will know about it firsthand. Here is a step-by-step breakdown of the process of making a poster on Google Docs:

Step 1: Access Google Docs. Click on “Blank” to start a new document.

Step 2: Now, go to the menu “Insert”. Then click on Drawing, and then “New”

You will see a drawing area like this. There you can see a set of tools that will help you to make drawing in the drawing area I have shown in the screenshot below:

If you are a first-timer, let me help you explain the function of each tool one by one.

• Icon 1: At the extreme left, you have the actions option that performs functions like metering the space. provides specialized functions like Word Art.

• Icon 2: Then comes the undo icon that reverses the action performed in the drawing UI.

• Icon 3: Then comes the redo icon that reverses the undone action done by undo in the drawing UI.

• Icon 4: The paint option comes next. You can use colors in self-made art.

• Icon 5: Then comes the cursor icon. The Cursor icon when clicked, allows you to access the formatting options.

• Icon 6: Then comes the ‘arrow key’ which enables you to draw and form various types of arrows, small, big, and slim, and also you can size them from slim to big.

• Icon 7: Then comes the ‘shapes key’ that you can use to form varieties of shapes on your Drawing UI. It includes rectangles, polygons, message icons, etc.
  Icon 8: Then comes the ‘Textbox icon’. This enables you to write words.

• Icon 9: Then comes the ‘image icon’. That enables you to insert images on your drawing UI.

Step 3: Now, let’s draw a Rectange. For this, go to the Shapes icon >> Shapes >> Rectangle.

You may choose any design depending on your requirements.

Step 4: Now, draw a rectangle, choose a color to fill it, and also you can select different outline colors.

Step 5: You can make use of tools to customize as you wish such as I filled the color, and outlined with different colors, and also, made the outline thicker by using the tools. Now, write a text using the text option.

Step 6: After writing the text, when you click the marked option, you will see the text options to format your text. For the text content, you should also try special text fonts like cursive Google fonts.

Now, our basic poster in Google Docs is ready. However, you can customize it more using the tools as you wish.

Step 7: Now, you have to click the option “Save and close”.

This will import the poster drawing into the document.

How To Print A Poster In Google Docs

Printing a poster will require all the steps that we have done for making the poster because before printing you have to make a poster first. Considering, we have created the poster and imported that into Google Docs, let’s follow the steps to print that poster.

Step 1: Since we do not want to print the full page of the Google Doc but our poster. So, first of all, we will go to File >> Page Setup.

Step 2: In the page setup, from the drop-down, select “Selected Content”, and fix any margins and all you need. Then click OK.

Step 3:  Go to File >> Print

Step 4: You will see the print window. There you can check everything, and then click “Print using system Dialogue”

Step 5: You will see a pop-up. Now, you have to select the printer you have attached and click on Print. Now, that poster will be printed on paper.

I haven’t added a printer to my laptop. Thus it is showing no printer selected. If you have one attached, it will show the name of that printer.

How To Print A Poster In Google DocsHow To Make A Poster On Word

MS Word is a powerful Word Processor on your computer, and it can do various types of jobs including making a poster. Let’s find out, how to make a poster on Word.

Step 1: Launch MS Word. It will open up with options to create documents. Click Blank to start a new blank document.

Step 3: Go to Page Layout, >> Size, and select the size of your poster

Step 4: Now, use the Insert menu to insert text boxes, and shapes to design a poster.

And, now, you will have to use your creative way to insert various elements and arrange them properly to design a good poster.

This is the way you can easily make a poster in MS Word. Moreover, there are so many options in MS Word you can use to customize your poster-making to a great extent. And as an advanced tip, making a label in Google Docs makes certain information more organized.

How To Make a Poster on Google Docs: FAQs

How do you make a poster size on Google Docs?

You can make a poster through the insert option on google docs. Then you have to access Drawing and then click on ‘New’. Use Format options as per your need, make your poster, and then download the poster after opening Actions Options.

How do I print a large poster on Google Docs?

Printing a large poster on Google Docs is easy. First, save the poster as PDF, and then open that PDF in Adobe Reader. Now, go to the Print option, and there you will see an option “Poster”. Just go ahead, and your poster will be printed well.

Is Google Docs good for making posters?

To be honest, making poster professionally is good in some Graphic design software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Canva, and Figma is better but, you can get basic or a bit more professional posters in Google Docs as well. It will depend on how well you use the available tools in Google Docs to make a great poster.

How do I print posters of multiple pages on Google Docs?

You have to first download the poster as a PDF file, and then open the PDF in Adobe Reader. From there, you give the print command, and on the print window, you will see a Poster option which will split the big poster into multiple pages, and will print out on multiple pages.

Conclusion

Google Docs is a great cloud-based word processor which you can use for various purposes. You can also make basic posters in it, but to be honest, if you want professional-level posters to use some design software like Photoshop or others.