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A lot of people ask me whether it is possible to get Microsoft publisher for the Macintosh computer, or whether there is an equivalent piece of software. Unfortunately the answer is no, there has never been a Macintosh version of publisher, and this article tries to explain why, and what the options are. The gap that Microsoft Publisher fills. Microsoft Publisher is a very popular piece of software for Windows computers. It fills of a gap on Windows computers because Microsoft Office does not have the capability to do page layout like Apple Pages does. As you think about more alternatives to Microsoft publisher for a window computer, Adobe PageMaker and InDesign are too expensive and complex for most everyday users. So when people want to do a simple newsletter, but one that’s too complicated for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher fills the gap nicely.
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Microsoft Word documents tend to look pretty bland whereas publisher allows you to spruce them up a bit. Microsoft publisher fills a gap on Windows computers that does not exist in OSX Now let’s think about the Macintosh computer, there is no such gap. Apple Pages can do pretty much everything Publisher can do! So a Macintosh user has no need for Microsoft Publisher.
Apple Pages can produce some quite spectacular documents very simply, and unless you are a professional publisher there’s really not the need to step up to PageMaker or InDesign. This does not really leave a market for Microsoft Publisher on the Macintosh computer, except for Macintosh users to be able to read a publisher document that was created on a PC! So while this would be a nice convenience for Macintosh users, I don’t imagine it is a large market for Microsoft Publisher.
Microsoft Word is a different story though. Microsoft Word was first released for Apple Computer back in 1984. Microsoft Word is a professional word-processing application that in many ways is superior to Apple pages, and was superior to Apple works and Claris Works. If you are writing large or complex documents there is and always has been a huge market for Microsoft Word on the Apple Computer. If you are waiting for a version of Microsoft Publisher to appear for Macintosh computer, I would not be holding your breath.
How to open a publisher document on a Macintosh computer. If you want to access a Microsoft publisher document there are a couple of options. The first one is to use Libre Office it is a free piece of software available for OS X. It can open a Microsoft Publisher file. They haven’t quite nailed it because there are quite often formatting issues ( it’s a bit like trying to open a complex Word document in Pages) but most of the time you can see what’s in the document and grab the parts that you need. The other option is to use.
This will give you a PDF version of the Microsoft Publisher document that retains all its original formatting. You can’t really do anything with the PDF version unless you own Adobe Pagemaker, but you will be able to accurately view and print the Microsoft publisher document.
Best Answer: Microsoft does not make a version of Publisher for Mac. The only way you can get your Publisher files to function is to export them on your Windows computer to a different file format and then use them on the Mac. Although this could definitely stop you from being able edit them depending on what format you export them to. Once you're on the Mac you can make new files in Pages, an application that comes in iWork, and they will look much better than anything in Publisher. Answered by Keith S from Charleston.
Oct 10, 2010. Microsoft Publisher is not available for the Mac platform, however, pretty much all publisher functionality is included in MS Word 2011 instead - and then some.
While there may be some file fidelity issues moving from MS Publisher on Windows to MS Word:Mac, the new features in Word:Mac 2011, which include full screen editing and interactive 3D layers management actually offer a lot more than publisher - I was pleasantly surprised at just how good the publishing features are in Office:Mac 2011. Apple also provide some great features in their 'Pages' application which is part of their iWork suite and I just recently created large poster in this application without any problems - you can even drag and drop images directly from Photoshop when working with Pages which is very useful if you need the graphics capabilities of Photoshop and the text handling capabilities of Pages. Answered by Chris M. Dec 7, 2010. Like the previous best answer, Microsoft doesn't make publisher for the Mac OS X platform. However, if you have a full version of Windows and VMware Fusion, and you created a partition for Windows with the BootCamp Assistant, and then installed Windows on it, install VMware Fusion on your Mac OS X platform and one of the features of that Mac App will allow you to seamlessly run Windows apps right on your mac desktop without seeing the Windows Desktop or having to boot directly into Windows.
Another thing you might want to do is make sure your Windows platform is protected with either an Anti-Virus or Internet Security suite (Internet Security highly recommended). Your copy of VMware Fusion should include a complimentary license for McAfee VirusScan.
However, if you prefer something else, feel free to use it. Just make sure to run it through both Apple and Microsoft to make sure it's safe to use. (I recommend going through Apple first, as they are the ones that manufacture macs.).
Answered by Benjamin J from Union Grove. May 12, 2012.