You can't download these programs - at least not legally. (I don't know
about sites that are offering illegal software downloads because I try not
to break the law.)
You need to purchase these programs.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> You can't download these programs - at least not legally. (I don't
> know about sites that are offering illegal software downloads because
> I try not to break the law.)
There is a downloadable trial of the latest version of Office Standard.
Microsoft chose not to make a downloadable trial of Publisher 2003 available
due to bandwidth constraints - it would not have been possible to remove all
the templates that are built-in to Publisher, so it would have made the
download unsuitably large.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 20 Nov 2005 17:36 GMT
I know about the trial version of Office but I would think that a trial
version isn't what the OP was told she could download.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
>> You can't download these programs - at least not legally. (I don't
>> know about sites that are offering illegal software downloads because
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> to remove all the templates that are built-in to Publisher, so it would
> have made the download unsuitably large.
Ed Bennett - 20 Nov 2005 17:40 GMT
> I know about the trial version of Office but I would think that a
> trial version isn't what the OP was told she could download.
Well, it is a legally downloadable version of Word, Excel, etc. in a way
that Publisher isn't.
:o)

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 20 Nov 2005 17:52 GMT
Yep - but I still think someone gave her bad information.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
>> I know about the trial version of Office but I would think that a
>> trial version isn't what the OP was told she could download.
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>
> :o)