Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on

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and

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rather than text composition and

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Overview

Publisher is included in higher-end editions of Microsoft Office, reflecting Microsoft's emphasis on the application as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the "heavyweights" with a focus on the small-business market, where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents. However, it has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by

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and formerly by QuarkXPress. While most Microsoft Office apps adopted ribbons for their user interface starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Publisher retained its toolbars and did not adopt ribbons until Microsoft Office 2010.

Compatibility

LibreOffice has supported Publisher's

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(.pub) since February 2013. Corel Draw X4 features read-only support. Publisher supports numerous other file formats, including the Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format, which is supported on Windows platforms. The Microsoft Publisher

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can be used to view .pub files beyond the trial period.

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also saved files with a .pub extension, but the two file formats were unrelated and incompatible.

Release history

References

External links

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Microsoft Publisher blog
(last updated December 2009) on

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{{Microsoft Office Desktop publishing software Publisher Products introduced in 1991

Overview

Compatibility

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