Microsoft Publisher

We use Microsoft Publisher to develop a number of products for our business, including advertising sheets, report covers, resume formatting for our resume assistance business, and certain presentation pages.

It helps us develop professional-looking documents both for internal and external clients.

We have tried other free or low-cost alternatives, and they simply cannot perform to the level of quality that Microsoft Publisher provides for our business.

• While the product is relatively expensive relative to alternatives, it is the best ROI we have found
• We do have trouble justifying the cost due to the frequency we use it.
• There are features that it includes that we don't use, but seem to increase the cost.

Canva

Microsoft 365, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PhotoShop

Our organization uses Microsoft Publisher in several different ways. We track corporate agreements in Microsoft Publisher. We prepare publications and newsletters for employees and customers. Microsoft Publisher provides a unique tool for products and processes that other programs do not satisfy.

• Tracking document templates in Microsoft Publisher has made the process more efficient
• Effective communication with clients and employees
• Added design features

Canva

Paycor, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows

we are using Microsoft Publisher for our day-to-day activities in our project like making banners and printing it on very high resolution scale. Our project has multiple requirement for banners and promotions, pamphlets and brochures making. We also have invitation letters and editing of documents related work involved. Publisher is one of the best software being used with a Microsoft Office license in our organisation.

• we have invested on our Microsoft license for our team and that has made a very big productivity for making banners and holdings for our projects as making it from third party would cost much higher and the return is very well over the comparison with third-party vendors
• Functionality is very easy, so we don’t have to train much to get it in production and use it efficiently so we don’t have to invest much on training and learning things and we can work on it directly with a very basic knowledge as well
• It has functionality to get stored and share things directly to the OneDrive and using curated links, which is very secure and reliable to transfer files without losing picture and banners quality and share them in lossless quality.

Canva and Adobe Express

Adobe Express, Canva, Microsoft 365

We use Microsoft Publisher to create high standard documents and infographics for sharing department- or company-wide. It gives a more professional look than Microsoft Word when the document is more flow or picture based, rather than pure written content.

• No extra fee as included within MS Office 365 suite.

Microsoft Powerpoint and Canva

Canva

I use it for business cards, flyers, newsletters, and other lightweight desktop publishing projects. Microsoft Publisher is OK for quick and easy desktop publishing projects. It's useful because we have a lot of Microsoft Publisher boilerplate built up over the years so we can just take a previous project and repurpose it. When used that way it's time-efficient and cost-effective. It is not our first choice for new projects that demands detail and real creative energy.

• It's very cheap since it is part of Office 365.
• Since we have years of experience with Publisher and a lot of boilerplate, we can turn some documents over quickly.
• Because it is part of Office 365 we have familiarity with the interface.

• It's a sunk cost so on easy projects there's a positive ROI.
• Because it's not very good at creating long and/or complex documents we needed to obtain other applications to create long and/or complex documents.
• It's just so not essential to what we do that the positive or negative ROI is negligible.

QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe InDesign