What's Publisher?

Well, Microsoft Publisher is a great tool for small businesses, community groups, and families who want to create publications without investing a lot of time and money in buying, learning, and supporting heavy-weight desktop publishing applications. With Publisher you can create things as simple as greeting cards or labels, or as complex as yearbooks or catalogs.

Publisher has the tools you need so that you can layout, crop, and format images in your publication. You can layout your text and make it flow around images, from text-box to text-box, and with Publisher 2010 you can use some exciting typographic fonts to really make your publication sing, but more on that in a post later this month.

So, how can you get started learning about Publisher?

• Publisher 2010:
  • Getting started with Publisher 2010
  • Getting Started - What's new in Publisher 2010
• Publisher 2007:
  • Getting started
  • Get started designing your own professional publications
• Publisher 2003:
  • Introducing Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
• Crabby demystifies Publisher terms

Some of you may also be wondering about how to decide between using Word or using Publisher for one job or another. Well, we've got that covered:

• Word or Publisher: Choose the best tool for the job

See you next Wednesday!

--Bob deLaubenfels