Microsoft Publisher 2016

Microsoft Publisher is a program designed to create booklets, leaflets, albums, postcards and other printed materials. To work with it the user does not need any special knowledge and skills of using graphic editors. Publisher is one of the components of Microsoft Office, so it has a familiar interface for programs from this office suite, and also supports close integration with Word, PowerPoint and other components.

Documents created in Publisher can contain text, images, shapes drawn with the program's own tools, figures from the built-in library and so on. OpenType typography options such as ligatures, stylistic alternates and swashes help to give the final work an aesthetic look, and picture effects add soft shadows, reflections and glow to elements on the page. The program supports the import of most popular graphics formats, and pictures can also be inserted from Bing image search or from OneDrive.

As with any other Microsoft Office program, Publisher provides the ability to quickly undo changes made to the project (even a few steps back). Publications can be saved to OneDrive, which makes them available on other devices and lets you share your work with others; real-time co-authoring is not supported. Finished work can be exported to PDF or XPS, published as HTML, or packed with Pack and Go for photo printing or a commercial printer. Publisher 2016 runs only on Windows. Office 2016 is no longer supported by Microsoft, and Publisher itself is being retired in October 2026.

Microsoft Publisher 2016 allows users to easily create professional-looking print materials without needing any special graphic design skills.

If you don't want to create a document from scratch, or don't have enough time, it is worth looking into the built-in collection of templates. After selecting the appropriate template, you will only need to change the text and, if desired, several design elements in it. That's it, in just a few minutes you'll get a ready (though not unique) project.