Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Frequently Asked Questions

Office Publisher 2007 is designed to help you efficiently create communications materials with rich page layouts—brochures, datasheets, booklets—and marketing materials in-house for print, Web, and e-mail.

Office Publisher 2007 can be used by anyone who wants to quickly create effective, high-quality print publications, such as newsletters, postcards, flyers, basic Web sites, or rich e-mail communications. Office Publisher 2007 doesn't require you to learn a complex desktop publishing program designed for professional designers or spend time trying to get your word processor to create high-quality print publications.

Office Publisher 2007, when used with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, includes new and improved capabilities to help guide you through creating a wide range of marketing materials, building your brand, managing customer lists, and tracking your marketing campaigns in-house. New features in Office Publisher 2007 include:

Office Publisher 2007 brings together all the tools you need to efficiently and effectively create marketing and page-layout materials in-house. Office Publisher 2007 includes capabilities to help guide you through the process of creating a wide range of marketing materials, building your brand, managing customer lists, and tracking your marketing campaigns.

The Getting Started experience has been redesigned to make it easier for you to create professional-looking publications that reflect your brand identity from the get-go. New functionality includes:

¹Office Online Template Gallery requires Internet connection.

Yes. For larger quantities and higher-quality printing, Office Publisher 2007 offers full commercial-printing support, including four-color process and spot-color printing, cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) composite postscript, and professional commercial-printing tools. You can also convert your publications to a commercial-press-ready PDF or XPS file format for easier acceptance by commercial printers.

Locate a Publisher printer in your area by searching the online Publisher Service Provider Program (PSPP) database. You can search for printers in the United States and Canada by location or by type of printer (storefront or online).

Yes. Office Publisher 2007 will be included in Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, Office Professional 2007, and Office Enterprise 2007.

When used with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can:

Yes. You can create and store a single customer list in Office Publisher 2007 by combining and editing customer lists from multiple sources including Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access 2007, and more.

Yes. You can open and edit Office Publisher 2007 files in Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and Office Publisher 2002, as they share the same file format. To open and edit Publisher 2003 files in Publisher 2000 or Microsoft Publisher 98, simply save your files to the previous version: On the File menu, click Save As. In the Save as type box, choose Publisher 2000 Files or Publisher 98 Files.

Yes. Publisher supports importing images including .emf, wmf, .jpg, .png, .bmp, .gif, .tif, and .eps. You can import text from most word processors, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, plain text, HTML, and RTF.

Yes. A free download will add new functionality to Office Publisher 2007 (and all 2007 Microsoft Office system programs) to help you to convert your publications to a fixed format (PDF or XPS) for sharing across platforms and applications. There are settings for online viewing, desktop printing, or commercial-press ready.

The tool you use depends on your Web site needs. If the goal is to give your business or organisation a presence on the Web, use Office Publisher 2007 to create Web sites that are visually consistent with your print publications. Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 if you need Web site management tools and the ability to make frequent updates, built-in scripting tools for interactive results, professional coding tools, and interactive elements such as search engines.

Office Publisher 2007 does not include a manual. Office Publisher 2007 includes an improved offline and online Help system that will help you get the most out of Publisher 2007. You'll have the option to search both offline and online Help for the latest topics and procedures. In addition, online tutorials and demos will demonstrate new Office Publisher 2007 functionality. Look for a list of third-party books written to support Office Publisher 2007 on the Publisher home page, when available.