Publisher program

[Normansgirl]

I just bought Office 2008 for my new Mac and assumed it had Publisher on it, but it seems as if it has been replaced with Entourage. I need Publisher for a professional synthesis course to create newsletters and flyers. How do I get this for a MacBook?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

I just bought Office 2008 for my new Mac and assumed it had Publisher on it,
but it seems as if it has been replaced with Entourage. I need Publisher for a
professional synthesis course to create newsletters and flyers. How do I get
this for a MacBook?

Hi,

Microsoft Publisher is not sold to Mac users. It only works on Microsoft
Windows.

Word 2008 has a new view called Publishing Layout view. From the menu choose
View > Publishing Layout. Word is very powerful and may meet your
publishing needs.

If you need to use Microsoft Publisher, then you¹ll need to install
Microsoft Publisher. There are 3 ways to do it on a Mac:
Parallels (Requires Windows plus Microsoft Publisher)
VMWare (Requires Windows plus Microsoft Publisher)
Crossover (does not require windows, requires Microsoft Publlisher)

I know that Parallels can run Publisher, I¹m pretty sure Vmware can do it,
but you would have to check the specs for Crossover.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[peterthebag]

Hi,
if it is just flyers posters etc you need to create try Pages - part
of iwork, it does all that very well, and in very inexpensive (less
than windows+vm/parallels+publisher!).

Also, there are many fine free DTP apps for mac. Have a look at the
apple website (downloads), or somewhere like www.pure-mac.com or
http://www.freemacware.com or http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/cats.php
for free software. Some of this software is extremely good, so dont
ignore it just because its free!

Best of luck.
PtB