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Hello, What software will people be using and why when Publisher is phased out in October 2026? Thank you.
I know there's InDesign and Canva. Also, will Publisher files be able to be converted ?
A desktop publishing application from Microsoft that focuses on page layout and graphic design.
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I have sent feedback to both Wordperfect & Affinity that they should consider coming up with a conversion feature from .pub
I was able to convert a .pub document to a PDF and then open it in Canva. Some pages were fine but many were a total mess, even those with only text. For some reason there were lots of text boxes with only a word or phase in them??? And tables were really a mess. Ugh!
Problem is, no one seems to have found another program that opens Publisher files.
Didn't like it.
Try Libre Office, Writer module, it imports .PUB files. But still needs a little bit of tweaking but at least it retains graphics and text.