Publisher alternative in 2026

If you click learn more. It says it won't work after October 2026.

Hi, I have a MS publisher 2002 and have just installed it to see what would happen. I have installed it in a new and separate program folder in Program Files (x86)/Office Publisher 2002 that I created. It opens my 365 files, converts to PDF, etc. I registered the program with just the licence details, no name, no email, etc. Files appear to work as normal.

hope this helps

Diane

Thank you for the clarification.

With regards having office 2021 pro that would be great to be able to continue using it after retirement from 365, if only I could install it…

I'm a little confused by this information on their website

This conflicts with the email I received advising me to convert all my existing documents - this suggests it will still be available, someone help me out to understand this lol. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/publisher 
I make greeting cards and have many custom greeting card templates created in Publisher. I am struggling to recreate these in any alternative program I have looked at. I need to be able to have information on the back of the card with the front blank, a code on the back is edited before each print so converting to pdf really won't help me, although I have worked out I can add initials which can be my card code but my prints didn't seem to come out in quite the right place. I like to work on a single page aligning accurately which Publisher allows me to do. Can anyone recommend an alternative that would be as easy to create, I have looked into others but can't find anything that I see as a replacement, some I have looked at you have to create a page size the width of the card and guess where the middle is to add information on the back of the card which is ridiculous. I do have an older version of Office (MS Office Pro 2013) but it will not allow me to install whether that's because I already have 365 installed not sure. When we get to October 2026 I shall uninstall 365 and try installing again at that time, no point wasting time now plus I'm hopeful Microsoft will decide, whilst they won't update or offer in new subscriptions, they will allow us to continue to use the software.

I agree with Stansberry and enerak.

And I'm working on how to navigate my non-profit newsletter commitments without Publisher. I downloaded LibreOffice and have been messing around with that. And I just signed up to receive information on Posit. It's for scientific and business publication purposes, it seems, but since it mentions newsletters I thought I'd check it out.

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*** ... to be continued,

Leigh