Publisher alternative in 2026

I would say this is very inaccurate. I have tried several times in preparation for the discontinuations to use the label feature in Word and it is so far away from easy. I have not successfully been able to mail merge and create labels with the design where I need it to be to print on the label sheets. Creating programmes for my school in Word isn't user friendly either.

If you were to offer it separately, I could understand but this puts many teachers, small businesses, and non-profits in a position of scrambling trying to figure out something.

I hope you keep Publisher in some form.

And can you place photos where you want them on the page, resize them, and then have the text flow around them? If it can do all that, I'm in.

I did a test trial of affinity ( shouldn't have gotten it at that time as I didn't have the time to really test it out) Anyway after the trial period they sent a questionnaire, I explained the situation & mentioned if they could work up a conversion it would be great. Maybe if others do the same they might take it more seriously.

It's clear MS does not care. I tried asking in in support ticket. No answer.

It looks like Canva is my answer. I have tried everything else with no luck.

Luckily I am fairly knowledgeable with it. It converted my newsletter and other docs well.

So....

Affinity looks nice - but does it open MS Publisher files? I have literally thousands of files that will become useless. Does anyone know what program will edit pub files?