Publisher alternative in 2026

I'm with you! The suggested alternatives (Word, PowerPoint) are simply no match for Publisher. I'm wondering if you disable updates to Office (File-->Account-->Update Options), then they won't be able to disable Publisher. Microsoft's updates often make things worse (like disabling Publisher), and their so-called support is totally useless.

Sorry I don’t get you, 365 would still be installed on the computer I would just be logging in with different credentials?

Good tip

I hope they do too.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever witnessed... how do you kill a program AND disable folks from opening old files? I have a small business that uses Publisher exclusively to create variable data greeting cards, letters, postcards, etc. I have over 42 THOUSAND files, in over 3420 folders that will all have to be RECREATED. Why can't you just disable the support and let us keep our old Publisher? My files are primarily used for mail merge, and instead of creating a bunch of different PDFs (because we could be creating pieces from up to 45 different companies every day, all having different templates, logos, owner pics, etc.), I merge and ADD new pages to an existing document of the same type for each customer, so that I can print ALL the same type of files together. You CAN'T do that with Word... it's not an option. This is so crazy and mind boggling. Praying Microsoft hears all of these complaints and gets their head out of their rear ends to do an about face on this.