Usability Review of Microsoft Publisher
July 10, 2025

Usability Review of Microsoft Publisher

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Publisher

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.

Pros

  • Microsoft Publisher is just like Word, but Publisher, give much more features like multi page printing of single image and banner
  • We have faced very much difficulties for picture control in Microsoft Word, but Microsoft Publisher has much advanced picture. Control features with multiple alignment and distortion correction function.
  • We are also using Publisher for big banners for streets for promotion of our products, which is helping us on a very large scale advertisement with in-house design, designing, and printing of large banners easily

Cons

  • Publisher should must improve UI as it is familiar like Microsoft Word and not very much different from Word, Publisher can change UI and add multiple automation functions for banners and image designing
  • Templates and drafts can be much more improved as it has a very limited template and designs when it comes to picking pre-built projects
  • 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.
I would like to give it for the functionality and working as it can do almost all the jobs, but you is much needed to improve as we have multiple design designing tools available on website with very much modern UI and layout also template and stock images. Library should be updated and it lacks multiple materials to use.
I have used Canva and multiple other tools like Adobe Express for creating same type of graphics, designing and banner designing, and it had outcome with very well and defined result, and it can compete with Publisher, and both can be stack up against each other very efficiently in aspect of working and features.

Do you think Microsoft Publisher delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Publisher's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Publisher live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Publisher go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Publisher again?

Yes

we were in a problem in which we have to print a picture on multiple pages and printed in a high definition, quality and later joint it to make a big wording and Publisher played a very crucial and good role in making our plan success. We imported a very high-quality banner and displayed in multiple pages using the print function provided by the Publisher, which helped us to do, our task efficiently.

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