Alternative to Publisher that works with Access VBA? (1 Viewer)

[wackywoo105]

I’ve recently learned that Microsoft Publisher is being discontinued and removed from Microsoft 365.

I currently rely on Publisher to generate documents from Access using VBA, either for printing or exporting to PDF.

Because some of my documents are quite complex, with extensive use of shapes, layered elements, and text boxes and I’m not convinced Word can handle them.

Is there a suitable alternative to Publisher that can be automated through Access VBA?

 

[isladogs]

I'm not aware of an alternative application that can be automated using VBA.
Why not just export directly to PDF from Access and omit the mid step of Publisher completely?
Otherwise consider purchasing an older retail copy of Publisher

 

[DHookom]

I’ve used PowerPoint through automation from MS Access. I mostly created dashboards but most objects should be available