Is Your Brand Ready for MS Publisher’s End?
Microsoft has announced that in October 2026, support for its Publisher software will come to an end and it will no longer be included in Office 365 or Office suites. If you use Publisher to manage your business collateral and, like many, have switched to Office 365 subscriptions, you will be left high-and-dry without a way to easily update listing flyers, presentation materials, or open house tools (to name just a few). You’ll lose the ability to open or edit Publisher files, unless you have prepared beforehand.
Thinking ahead and converting your materials now makes a lot of sense. You have nearly a whole year to adjust to new publishing tools, but the best benefit may just be getting to use something other than Microsoft’s largely long abandoned Publisher tool which hasn’t had a meaningful update since 2010. Think of all the advances in technology in the last 15 years.
Here at The Lones Group, we’ve built many hundreds of brands over the last two decades, many of which were built for our clients who use Microsoft Publisher, and we are recommending the move to Canva! Some of the many benefits include:
- Canva is Online. You can access your materials anywhere you have Internet. Need to update a listing flyer? No need to go back to the office to get it done.
- Canva Supports Teams. Need to share a marketing brochure with a printer? Share it directly with them.
- Canva has Brand Kits. This incredible feature makes consistency easy, by setting fonts, brand colors, the size of your headings, logos, backgrounds, and other brand traits all in one place. Update once, use it everywhere. This feature alone is lightyears ahead of Publisher.
- Canva is Affordable. At this is written, Canva Pro is $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year.
- Canva is Supported. Actively supported and being constantly improved with modern time-saving and creative features, unlike Publisher.
The logos panel for Sage Sander's Brand Kit, conveniently located in one place.
Canva Conversion: Sage Sanders
Branded in 2021, Sage Sanders is looking ahead and avoiding the stress of a last-minute solution. She has had her business systems and templates that were built for her brand converted from MS Publisher to Canva.
For Sage, that meant migrating to Canva her pricing props, her bio, agent comparison tools for listing presentations, seller brochures, and a collection of amazing business tools that we have built for her like her luxury home booklet and experience book.
Our conversion also included setting up her Canva Brand Kit with her logos (see above). We setup her brand colors, which she can use to provide printing services of the exact color codes that her brand uses. All her fonts have been loaded too – so if Sage creates a new mailer, it will use these preset headers, sub-headers, and body fonts exactly the same way every time without having to hunt them down and select them herself. Various icons, patterns and backgrounds used by her brand, imagery that reflects her brand’s personality – it is all there in one place.
Our clients love this feature because it makes it easy for each business tool to look professional and aligned with their brand, boosting credibility and recognition. Our clients who are a little adventurous have discovered that brand kits make it easy to extend their brand into new places: a special event postcard, an envelope, a listing timeline, a social media post, and more. They don’t have to hunt around for a brand asset we created for them because they are all in one place.
Ready? Set? Go!
Make the switch and get started by contacting our design team. With a short phone call, we can walk you through the process and provide you with a quote and plan to get your business materials ready for the future.
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 By Denise Lones CSP, CMP, M.I.R.M. |
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