Product Description

Office Publisher 2007 helps you manage your marketing activities from concept to delivery. New and improved capabilities guide you through the process of creating a wide range of marketing materials, building your brand, managing customer lists, and tracking your marketing campaigns-all in-house.

Main Features

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 164-04130
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.97" h x 5.51" w x 7.87" l, .60 pounds

Features

• Business publishing and marketing materials solution helps you create and distribute effective publications for print, Web, and e-mail
• Makes it easy to create, personalize, and share a wide range of publications and marketing materials in-house
• Offers a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, e-mail formats, and more
• New Search tool quickly locates and previews high-quality Publisher 2007 templates from Microsoft Office Online right within the Publisher Catalog
• Publisher Tasks gives you help with common procedures; the enhanced Catalog Merge helps produce frequently updated materials such as datasheets, catalogs, or price lists by merging text and images from a database

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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.

Customer Reviews

Some interesting changes from the 2003 version
I've been using Publisher since the 98 version came out with mixed results until I understood it quirks and what it was good at doing. I think this time Microsoft got it right or at least close. There are a couple of things that they've added to make it easier to use. When you open the program you have a pane on the right side now that actually shows you an image of what you have been working on, thus finding your work is much easier. The best thing they did that I like is when it comes to labels, postcards, and business cards. They have added the Avery stock numbers to each product so when it comes time to print them you don't have to try and set up your page getting margins right and the proper fit in these type of projects, it's done for you and you can see that they fit your stock using the print preview function. Another change is with the clip art, now it will ask you if you want it to search their (Microsoft) online catalog of clipart saving a lot of hard drive space but you still have the option to download the clip-art if you wish. Everything else is there including the edit story in MS Word and that even works with Word 2003. In fact if you purchase the 2007 version and it finds your old version you will be given the option to remove the 2003 version then install the 2007 version or you can install it so you'll have the use of both versions in case you don't like what the 2007 version offers up. About the only thing that hasn't changed is the activation Microsoft insists you do or after 30 days you'll no longer be able to use the software except to look at a project but no editing is allowed, that's the reason for just 4 stars other then that it has gotten better then the 2003 version. I'm glad that I decided to purchase Publisher 2007 and I'll more then likely end up getting the entire suite for Office 2007.

LOVE it, Can't beat it for the price, or any price I think!
It isn't perfect, I'd like to see a few things made easier for make web page designs, and some of the new features don't work as good as they say, but I LOVE this program. It has tons of templates and you can download more for free. It's really easy to make cards, newsletters, pages for books, web sites, invitations... you name it. I can insert full resolution photos and it will reduce the resolution for web pages as needed. It lets me add my own html code easily and the new navigation bar design features are excellent. It prints beautifully on all my 5 different types of printer. I made an alphabet book for my grandson and it printed the pages, front and back, perfectly. I took them out of the printer and stapled them, didn't have to sort anything. The print quality is excellent. The file sizes are much smaller than previous version and you even have the option to optimize all you photos and clip art to reduce file size even more. I think this is a great took for the computer at any price, no matter if you're a novice or expert.

Microsoft Publisher
I needed this software to create a newsletter and had never used Microsoft Publisher before. It was easy to learn and my newsletter was prepared quickly and easy. I'm very pleased!!!