Microsoft Word was first released for Apple Computer back in 1984. Microsoft Word is a different story though. 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. 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. Apple Pages can do pretty much everything Publisher can do! So a Macintosh user has no need for Microsoft Publisher. Now let’s think about the Macintosh computer, there is no such gap. Microsoft publisher fills a gap on Windows computers that does not exist in OSX Microsoft Word documents tend to look pretty bland whereas publisher allows you to spruce them up a bit. So when people want to do a simple newsletter, but one that’s too complicated for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher fills the gap nicely. 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. It fills of a gap on Windows computers because Microsoft Office does not have the capability to do page layout like Apple Pages does.
Microsoft Publisher is a very popular piece of software for Windows computers. 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. 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.
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