Customer Rating:  
Summary: Microsoft Publisher- stinks for the home user
Comment: I am an individual user wanting this product to replace my greetings software and home publisher which are full of glitches with Windows XP. This product is cumbersome, difficult to navigate, very user unfriendly and incredibly expensive. Seriously I would try to find any other product than this one. 8/2008
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Summary: Microsoft Publisher
Comment: Great program, but for the price, I had hoped they would have sent a book with additional instruction/information.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Meredith's personal opiion
Comment: AS far as I am concerned Microsoft Publisher is a good product. It only has az fews problems. When you are working in columns I don't think you can move from one finished column to another finished column with out goimg down to the bottom of one column amt then up to the top of the second column. I have seen word processers that you could move from one column to another in a jump. It sure makes it handy.
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Summary: Saved me $2000!!!!
Comment: Microsoft Publisher saved me from having to pay a graphic designer $2000 for a book cover. I publish my own books, and I learned how to use MS Word to format my books. But I had no idea how to create a cover. It's possible to create covers in Word, but I wanted my covers to look nicer. So an author friend of mine told me that he had spent $2000 on book covers for his second book but didn't like any of them. So he bought MS Publisher and created his own cover.
Some people complain that Publisher doesn't come with instructions. I see how that can be agrevating, but if you've used other MS Office products, it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. I learned how within a matter of days. I think spending less than $200 instead of paying $2000 really made me like Publisher a lot.
I've been exploring other things Publisher can do, and now I know how to make business cards, flyers, and mailing labels. Highly recommended, especially to self-published authors who need to design covers and can't afford graphic designers. (Although, I would rather do my own covers. I'm very obsessive about my books.)
Brandon Simpson
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Useful
Comment: Great value for the money, lots of capabilities, I highly suggest it. I've been using MS Publisher since 2003 and love it.
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 is a business publishing and marketing materials solution that helps you create and distribute effective publications for print, Web, and e-mail. It's the easy way to develop and share a wide range of business and marketing materials in-house. Now featuring new and improved capabilities to guide you through the process of creating and distributing in a variety of mediums, Publisher 2007 gives you the tools you need to build your brand, manage customer lists, and track your marketing campaigns. 
Personalize your marketing communications using new E-mail Merge, personalized hyperlinks, and your own creativity View larger. | Create High-Quality Publications
Nothing reflects your brand identity as well as a high-quality publication, and Publisher 2007 now offers new and improved tools that help you efficiently create, customize, and reuse a wide variety of marketing communications materials that are tailored to your company's specific needs. Get started quickly by choosing from a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, e-mail formats, and more. Create a business identity for all your business and personal needs that includes your company name, contact information, eye-catching fonts, vivid colors, and your unique logo. Time-Saving Template Options
Publisher 2007 is chock full of time-saving options, like the new Search tool which lets you quickly locate and preview high-quality templates from Microsoft Office Online right within the Publisher Catalog. Categorize, preview, open, and save your templates efficiently within My Templates for fast retrieval. For faster turnaround, store frequently used text, design elements, and graphics in the new Content Store so you can use them in other publications. For example, easily place content from a multipage newsletter into an e-mail template or Web layout for online distribution. 
Easily preview your own brand elements--colors, fonts, logo, and business information--and apply them to all Office Publisher 2007 content for a more relevant Getting Started experience. View larger. | Want eye-catching, colorful results? Choose from more than 70 designer-created color schemes, or create one of your own--you can even choose Pantone colors from right within the application. Publisher Tasks
Use Publisher Tasks to get help with common procedures, such as inserting images, creating a mail merge, or reusing content, and take advantage of the enhanced Catalog Merge to produce frequently updated materials--such as datasheets, catalogs, or price lists--by merging text and images from a database. Customize your publications using a collection of intuitive design, layout, typography, and graphics tools. Then run the enhanced Design Checker to identify and fix common design errors in commercial print, Web, and e-mail publications prior to distributing or printing. Personalize Your Publications and Marketing Materials
Publisher 2007 includes new E-mail Merge capabilities, enhanced Mail Merge, and Catalog Merge, making it easier than ever to send personalized e-mail and print marketing communication materials. You can also create truly unique materials by customizing and then experimenting with intuitive design tools--let your creativity run wild! 
With Office Publisher 2007, you can share, print, and publish professional-looking layouts with ease. View larger. | More Integration Options
Publisher 2007 gives you the option of combining and editing mailing lists within Publisher from multiple sources, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Access, and more. Use the list to create personalized e-mail and print communications or mailing labels, or to build custom collateral such as catalogs and flyers. You can also use Personalized Hyperlinks to personalize the display text and destination of a hyperlink within an E-mail Merge. In addition, improved integration with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (available in Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007) enables you to initiate and track the distribution of marketing materials created in Publisher 2007. Share, Print, and Publish With Ease
Publisher 2007 provides new and improved ways for you to share, print, and publish your materials with ease. First, you can save Publisher 2007 files in a fixed file format, such as Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS), for easy sharing. Additionally, PDF settings within Publisher 2007 include options for online viewing, desktop printing, and commercial printing. Take advantage of full commercial printing support for large quantities and high-quality printing; Publisher 2007 includes four-color process printing, spot color printing, cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) composite postscript, and more. Or use the improved Pack and Go Wizard to prepare your files, including a press-ready PDF file, for a commercial printer. Improvements in e-mail distribution and viewing, including support for sending multipage publications as a single-page message, make it easier than ever to create and send publications as e-mail messages. Finally, you can convert publications for viewing on the Web, and then identify and correct unintended desktop, commercial print, Web, and e-mail problems using the improved Design Checker.
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