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Posted on 04/04/2026 11:56:08 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Beginning 10/1/2026, Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported as part of Microsoft 365. Many common Publisher scenarios are available in other Microsoft 365 apps, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription. We regularly review how our subscribers use features within Microsoft products. This email includes details regarding features going away next year and reminders about current benefits included with your subscription.
Action Recommended: Before 10/1/2026, convert your existing Publisher files to PDF or Word format. After this date, you will no longer be able to open or edit these files with Microsoft Publisher.
Graphics don't float or flow well in Word; getting everything correctly arrayed is easy in Publisher; it is a challenge for me in Word. (Air Cowboys competing for attention putting all their grand schemes into PowerPoint in the Gulf War permanently put me off PowerPoint, I won't touch it.) Publisher is the ideal platform for all kinds of quick & simple graphics tasks.
MS continues its unbroken suckage legacy.
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My ultimate killer app in the 80s was Aldus Pagemaker, which allowed very flexible and agile nudging with numeric position controls in convenient menu panels that were out of the way.
They dropped this more than a decade ago as a standalone app. I wasn’t aware that Publisher was even still available as part of O365 - didn’t see it anywhere on client subscriptions.
Publisher’s aqua colored grid guides are about 2.5% as functional as PhotoShop; they disappear in the region occupied by the graphic. But I just learned for centering graphic objects, that if you have it selected, with a handle at 12 midnight, on a letter page 8 1/2 wide, you can manipulate the window up and down so the handle will center on the 4 1/4 ruler mark, then nudge left or right to center exactly.
I won’t say what compensation tactic I’m going to use, so they don’t come and stomp on me.
Adobe is another really great dinosaur company that once was cutting edge. I take every possible occasion to avoid using Acrobat.
I must be “Mental” I don’t do windows
so IDC.
I’m a Linux guy and I can adapt.
We use Adobe Photoshop and InDesign everyday, they’re great publishing tools
Publisher was good for ordinary people who needed to make church bulletin, their office newsletter or such. Slowly, though, those functions could also be performed by Words or PowerPoint, so long they already had pictures from somewhere else.
Microsoft is the reason I have been using Linux for almost thirty years now.
I know that every product had a near-flat learning curve, until the point where abandoning its use wasn't worth it because of the time already invested in learning it. I do know that we the buyers donated our free time in training ourselves, in an amount in cost in excess of what the item cost. Every time.
I do know that support was utterly nonexistent.
I do know that their ads and supporting literature is so dufusy and cringey that it literally reeks of loser nerd. That is the takeaway I have of the company after 50 years: a pathetic, self-hating nerd. I am so cool because I do computers. Unreal. For 50 years !
I drive through my hometown, seeing big marquis letters for the company glued on the large buildings' foreheads, and I wonder, why can't they just deliver on a product? They have enough money that they could have whole dead-wood departments like Publisher that might be a lot of fun to work in, with some cool old guys maintaining their culture about how it was back in the day. But no, can't spend any money on that, the Big Guy won't have as much cash at the end of the year to spend on children or WMD vaccines or plans to blot out the light of the sun.
Why do you feel gypped every time you cough up for one of their products, and feel that way for fifty years?
And why, after buying something like this, or something like W10 which you might have purchased outright, do they simply SHUT OFF the functionality of the product, so that you are forced to upgrade hardware/software just to keep your work products intact? Isn't that theft ex post facto? If it is across state lines, isn't it a federal conspiracy to steal from thousands of customers?
Why is MS so full of jerks? Do you think they ever had a coffee and donuts sit-down and just ask themselves why more than half of the people who use their products dislike them and their company? Do they even suspect this, after 50 years?
Adobe Acrobat PDF free reader now has as many popup ads as the average website.
Windows 11 not longer allows you to put the task bar at the top.
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A worthy pondering of the mysteries of the universe.
The last time I used an Adobe product was when I extracted out the many layers of Barry Soetoro’s fake birth certificate.
I love, and use, my MS Publisher from Office 2003 all the time! Glad I never bought in to the 365 rental scam, although DH did. Every time I get a new PC, Office 2003 is the first thing I install.
One thing I did not like about Microsoft Publisher was it renamed the images so made it difficult to edit.
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