How to Get and Use Poster Templates in Google Docs?

June 30, 2022

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to get and use poster templates in Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing!

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

How to Get Started
How to Get Templates
Customizing Templates

In this tutorial, we get and then customize the poster template in Google Docs.

So, there is often something you want to tell publicly and make it notable: for example, some events, promotion of the service(s), announcements, etc. And for that, the poster needs to be bright and attention-grabbing. And if you are not a graphic designer and you don’t want to contact the professional designers or design companies now, but you want to have the poster in as little time as possible, there is a perfect idea with the templates. Thankfully, we have lots of time-saving templates for various occasions, and all the templates are really easy to use. Get the template from the web and edit it according to your requirements, tasks, ideas, etc. Here, in this tutorial, we’re getting a poster template in Google Docs from the web and then editing it.

Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out how to get and use poster templates in Google Docs:

NB! We will choose a sample poster template just to basically show you how you can customize it. There is a vast number of poster templates with various structures, designs, etc. So, you can always select the most optimal poster templates for you.

NB! Please note that we apply all the customization absolutely randomly with the aim of showing you how to use particular options in Google Docs to make a poster from a template here. And you customize your poster template according to your tasks, requirements, ideas, etc.

How to Get Started

First up, make sure you are signed in to your Google Account.

The simplest way to check that is to go to https://www.google.com/, and on the Google homepage, at the top right corner, check if there is your profile picture or an icon with a person if you don’t have your profile picture. This means you are signed in. So, then you can skip this part

If not, you will have this “Sign in” button, so press it. Here, enter either your email address or a phone number linked to your Google Account. For example, we’re using our email here. And then we press “Next” over here. Now, on this page, enter your password and press “Next” over here. You will be redirected back to the Google homepage, and here you are signed in. You can always check this by looking at the top right corner here. And if there’s your profile picture or an icon with a person, that’s OK

How to Get Templates

From the Google homepage, you can search for templates with a query like “google docs poster templates free”

Or you can go to some particular websites with templates like “the goo docs free templates”. So, enter this query, then scroll down, locating https://thegoodocs.com/ and pressing on it. And we’re on the homepage, and now let’s get some templates

Go to the “Templates” section on top to unfold the drop-down, and here drag the pointer to the “Marketing” column, and the last item here is “Poster”. So, select “Poster”. On this page, there are, basically, dozens of different poster templates, all free for you, so choose whichever you like and use it absolutely free of charge. And as you can see, there are a few formats here, and, for example, to get exactly the Google Docs template, let’s filter them in the “Formats” drop-down and select “Google Docs”

Now, you can select the poster template you like out of these ones. For instance, we, personally, like simple ones, and in our case, it’s this basic “Christmas Wreath Poster”. So, once you have found the template you like, click on its image

And now, on this page, on the left, you can preview the template. And if you like it, next to the preview image, there is the “Edit Template” button. So, locate and press this red button with “Edit Template” on it. Here is the A3 Template option that we select

On the next page, wait till the download starts, which will be done automatically (and if something went wrong, press “CLICK HERE”). And on the next window, Google Drive will ask you if you want to copy the template to your Google Drive. So yes, to use it, press “Make a copy”, wait a bit, and it will open in front of you as a common document in Google Docs. But now it is your document that is located on your Google Drive. You can edit it and all changes will be automatically saved

Customizing Templates

Now let’s customize this poster template a bit. This poster template is quite laconic and it's meant to be modified as little as possible. The principle is to choose the template exactly for your occasion.

So, what you can do here: first of all, you can change the text and insert the information you need. So, we can change the date here. Then you can change the name of the poster. And then the main text here. You can clear this sample text and then copy the prepared text and paste it here. You can change the text color, formatting, font style, etc.

And then for the social media items, we’re going to insert a link to the exact event, though, for example, we’ll just now add a sample link to the Facebook profile just to show you how it works. So, let us get it. Then highlight the text, go to “Insert” on the toolbar at the top of the page and then go down to the “Link (Ctrl + K)” item. And now paste a link into this field and press “Apply”. The text turned blue and got underlined, indicating that it contains a link, and if you click on this text, it will show a link, and you can go to its source. The same concerns the next items that you can customize

And if you’d like, you can change the page color and the image. That’s done quickly and easily as well. For the page color, we’ll go to “File” on the toolbar at the top of the page, and then we press “Page setup” at the bottom of the list. Here you can see the “Page color” option, so open the drop-down and choose the color you need/like. For example, we’ll pick “dark magenta 1” and press “OK” to apply the changes

For the image here, for instance, we need to change it. So, select it and delete it. Insert the image you need or we’ll go to Google and search for “Christmas tree”, then we go to “Images” and then we choose the random image as a sample. Now save it to your computer with the right mouse (right-mouse click and press “Save image as”). Locate this image in the File Explorer and then go back to the poster template and just drag and drop it here. Here it is

The image doesn’t fit well now and let’s fix that: go to the bottom of the image and on this little bar, click on last but one item (“In front of text”), and that just put it over the text. And then click on the next item (“Move with text”) and select “Fix position on page”. Ok, now let’s drag the image back to the poster and decrease it — just pull either of the squares around the image. And now let us place the image better

But this image needs some more customization in order to look better here.

That’s it, just some basic customization. So, you can continue the customization process.

NB! When you select the image, you can look at other options on the bar below the image and apply what you need. And please remember to select the image when you start customizing it.

NB! This is just a bit of random customization so that you may use these as well as additional options to customize the poster template as you need.

We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to get and use poster templates in Google Docs. Good luck!

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