ABSTRACT
Many posters will contain tables of data. These can be quite hard work to understand in a hurry, so a few tips to make them as simple as possible for readers. Tables may be needed if researchers are comparing very different kinds of information between groups. For example, if they want to show baseline data, such as sex, age, weight, smoking history and concomitant diseases, for two groups of participants in a clinical trial, will need a table. Tables formatted beautifully in a word processing package often lose all their formatting and become difficult to manipulate when transferred directly into PowerPoint. It is usually best to create table within PowerPoint if possible. Even though table and its caption form a self-contained self-explanatory unit, it is customary to refer to it in the text of the poster. Although tables should ideally be close to related text, layout considerations sometimes mean that they cannot be immediately adjacent.
