Publisher (Discounted)
Microsoft Products Must Be Downloaded Within Five Days
After your request for this product is approved and the licenses are made available to you, you will have five days to download the product and license keys. To avoid a delay in access to your products, please follow the instructions we provide to obtain your products from the Microsoft 365 admin center as soon as they are available.
Publisher is a desktop publishing programme that allows users to create publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, email distribution, or viewing on the web.
This offer provides one license for installing the software on a single device. See a summary of Volume Licensing Product Terms for specific licensing details.
Which Versions of This Software Are Available?
You can choose to download the current version or the previous version of this software. You can find out which version is the current one on the Current Versions of Microsoft Products page. In addition, you can download the software in any language that's available.
Benefits for Organisations
You can use Publisher to
- Create brochures or flyers to inform others about your organisation or upcoming events
- Design letterhead and envelopes with your organisation's logo and colors
Major Capabilities
- Templates: Publisher gives you a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, websites, and email formats. From within the application, you can search for more templates available on the web.
- Image-editing tools: You can pan, zoom, and crop images, all within Publisher.
- Mailing integration: You can compile, edit, and manage your customer or contacts list directly in Publisher and apply your contacts to letters and envelopes for bulk mailing.
Software Assurance
Under the Software Assurance programme, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.
Obtaining This Product
To receive discounted Microsoft products with Software Assurance, you'll need to accept and electronically sign a Volume Licensing Agreement. After you place your request, you'll receive an email from Microsoft eAgreements with a link to the Volume Licensing Agreement. Your request won't be approved until you've signed the agreement.
When your request has been approved, Connecting Up or TechSoup New Zealand will send a message to your organisation email address with further instructions.
If you need help obtaining this product, find out how to download it.
Microsoft Discounts with Software Assurance
Get a wide variety of Microsoft software for your nonprofit through TechSoup NZ.
Which Versions of Microsoft Software Are Available?
The names of available Microsoft products don't include version numbers. For products that include Software Assurance, you can choose to download the current version of the software or the previous version. For products without Software Assurance, you can only download the current version. You can find out which version is the current one on the Current Versions of Microsoft Products page. In addition, you can download the software in any language that's available.
Eligibility and Restrictions
Microsoft nonprofit offers have different restrictions depending on whether the product is donated or discounted.
Microsoft Software Donations
Microsoft provides nonprofits with a maximum allotment of product donations that can be requested per two-year cycle. Beginning April 5, 2022, most donated products may be requested only by organizations that operate computer labs.
Consult the Microsoft software donation restrictions for more information.
Microsoft Discounted and Cloud Offers
If eligible, your organization may receive an unlimited number of discounted products or cloud offers.
Requests for discounted Microsoft products must include at least five licenses. The five licenses can be for the same product or a combination of different products. This requirement is waived for some products.
Consult the Microsoft discounted and cloud offer restrictions for more information.
Additional Information
For detailed explanations of the quantity of products you can request, see the Microsoft Eligibility page.
Licensing
Microsoft products offered through TechSoup NZ are perpetually licensed products. When you request a donated or discounted perpetually licensed product through TechSoup NZ, you're actually requesting a license, not the product itself.
To obtain perpetually licensed products without Software Assurance, you'll use the Microsoft 365 admin center. To obtain perpetually licensed products with Software Assurance, you'll use the Volume Licensing Server Center (VLSC).
Learn how to download and manage these products.
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- See Office system requirements.
- Microsoft installation technologies:
- Office applications that are version 2019 or later must be installed using Microsoft Click-to-Run technology instead of the traditional Windows Installer (MSI) technology. Click-to-Run technology is the same technology that is used to install the Office applications that are included with Office 365 subscriptions.
- You can't install multiple Office products on a computer if the products are the same version but use different installation technologies. In some cases, you also can't install two different versions of Click-to-Run applications on the same computer. For more information, see Microsoft Office support.
