Publog Archive

Later this month, I will be starting work on the MSN Spaces team.  For now, I am leaving this blog up as a resource; but I do not expect to be updating it with Publisher content.  Here are my most frequently viewed posts:

According to this pretty graph on microsoft.com/office/preview, Publisher 2007 will be in the Small Business, Professional, Professional Plus, and Enterprise suites of Microsoft Office 2007.  As someone working on Publisher, I’m really glad that all of the higher-end business and professional suites will include Publisher.

I think Publisher is a great value for Home and Student use also, but I’m guessing folks who want Publisher will may consider buying Small Business or Professional instead of Home and Student.

Also, for folks who are so excited about Publisher that they’re starting to save now, the marketing folks have posted estimated retail pricing. 

The branding for Office "12" was announced last week (while I was on vacation) and the company is going with the date schema of "Microsoft Office 2007."  I’m personally glad that we’re using a date again since I remember attending a trade show in 2003 and trying to understand from customers who had "XP" if they have Windows XP + Office XP or Windows XP + some other version of Office; or possibly even some other version of Windows + Office XP. 

All over the country (and world), there are classes being offered in using Publisher.  Here are a few that have crossed my inbox.  While this is not a comprehensive list, I hope this helps paint the picture of where you may be able to find a class on Publisher.  If you know of others, please feel free to add these to the comments section.  Thanks.

I found out that a new book on "Easy Web Design" is coming out that includes information about designing with Microsoft Publisher. 

Many people don’t realize that their current copy of Microsoft Publisher comes with dozens of professionally designed templates.  Since Publisher 98, the Publisher team has hired professional graphic designers to create matching "Business Sets" of templates that include letterhead, business cards, envelopes, brochures, newsletters, postcards, gift certificates, and more.  Below is the number of "Business Sets" in recent versions of Publisher:

 

In addition to the templates that ship with Publisher, there are tons of great template authors out there who provide their templates on the web (sometimes free and sometimes for a fee.)  I’ve been looking at this ecosystem and below are some of my notes on places to find Publisher templates:

Actually its a 30-day trial version of all of Office 2003 Professional including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher.  Many of the Office 2003 system products are available for CD, downloadable, or online trial.  A full list is here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/trial/default.mspx.