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What is Microsoft Publisher?
Precisely layout and style text, pictures, borders, calendars, and more. In Publisher everything you add stays exactly the way you鈥檝e designed it, in print, online, or in an email. Create everything from simple greeting cards and labels to professional newsletters and marketing materials using Publisher鈥檚 wide range of pre-designed templates. Share pixel-perfect printouts, send professional-quality email publications, or export to industry-standard non-editable formats.
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79 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
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75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+79 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Publisher?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Saves Time
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
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Microsoft Publisher Reviews

Ayush S.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2021
Microsoft Publisher - Easy Design Software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Publisher from other similar products?
Publisher is an easy to use software which helps a novice person like me design business cards. I also use it to design greeting/thank you cards for my clients. It has plethora of templates available that saves time. It is a basic software with easy-to-understand features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It has a lot of in-built templates that speed up the process. Microsoft has kept this product simple like its other applications to enhance the end-user experience.
What do you dislike most about this product?
To get more functionality you have to move to a more complicated software - they have not upgraded Publishers much in their subsequent version - which makes this software stagnant.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Publisher is a great software of beginners - you can become a pro in like an hour and meet your simple design needs. If you already have a license - definitely take advantage of this software.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Stuart S.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2021
Helped me make quality posters and leaflets
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Publisher from other similar products?
Easy to pick up
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The amount of features
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not found anything as of yet
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Helps making posters and leaflets
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service

Avani J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2021
Quick design platform - easy to use but expensive
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Publisher from other similar products?
Microsoft Publisher has a easy learning curve and can help you with your daily designs with its intuitive templates and easy to use features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Publishers doesn't cost as much as Photoshop and can get you all your basic designs. It has helped me design business cards, logos, postcards, etc.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Publisher is a costly product - the entire Microsoft Suite is expensive. But the cost is effective if you are a heavy user of Microsoft Products like I am.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is a must-try software for all the design beginners who can't afford more expensive software. You can although consider Canva as an alternative - it has excellent designs and an amazing template library.
Pros
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Reliable
- Trustworthy