Allen, unfortunately, there are no programs, free or paid, that will guarantee
a seamless import of .PUB files. Many claim it, but it is a closed-in file
format. But there are some tools that can help.
The LibreOffice: Draw module, free, says it can open them, but usually poorly
and most likely breaking formatting, but it would allow you to extract the
date/text from the document and re-create it somewhere else. You also have that
option in Publisher where you can open it and copy/paste or even export as a
PDF.
Canva and the Affinity suite are bot pretty good alternates. Canva is online
and they do have free tier which for free is pretty good. The paid tier is
better, but you may not need that level. Affinity, which is part of Canva, is a
pay once use forever and their tools are on a level with all of the Adobe suite
of Photoshop, Illustrator & Indesign. I paid under $100 for that level of
software and I did not have to rent it monthly.
Text will be fairly simple, tables will be a hitch.
So right now, I know the clock is running to October, your best bet is to start
extracting the data you’ll need to move it to another software package. If I
had to pick, export the data from Publisher and move it to Canva.Canva has the
easiest learning curve.
Mark. - K3MBC
> On Jul 24, 2026, at 9:08 PM, Allen Brier via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Microsoft will no longer support Publisher in a month or two. I use it to
> prepare the TDXS Newsletter (the ‘Bullsheet’). I’m looking for
> recommendations of what is the easiest to convert to…using my existing MS
> Publisher file as a template.
>
> 73/161,
>
> Allen R. Brier N5XZ
> 1515 Windloch Lane
> Richmond, TX 77406 USA
> 713-705-4801
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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