For schools and teachers
Keep your school's Publisher files, before the deadline.
For decades, Publisher made the classroom newsletter, the awards-night program, the field-trip flyer, and the reading log. When it shuts down in 2026, all of that is a folder of files nothing can open. The teacher who built them may have moved on, and the files sit on one classroom PC. Saving them takes about ten minutes.
Why schools feel it
Publisher ran the classroom and the front office.
For years it made the things a school sends home, the newsletters, the awards programs, the field-trip flyers, the reading logs, and the yearbook pages. The work usually lives on one classroom or office computer, built by a teacher or an aide, backed up rarely. The person who made them may have retired.
That is the setup most exposed by the shutdown, a deep archive on a single machine, with district IT rarely covering a Publisher folder. Converting the whole folder to PDF now turns years of work into files that will always open.
"I've been using Publisher to make all sorts of things, birthday cards, newsletters, leaflets, booklets, calendars, etc. I was gutted to hear that it will be discontinued. I genuinely don't know what I would do without it!"
How it works
Save the whole archive in three steps.
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Find the classroom folder
The folder on the classroom or office computer where the .pub files live, subfolders and all. That is everything you need.
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Drop it into PubKeep
Upload the whole folder at once, in the browser. Nothing to install. Each file becomes an exact PDF.
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Download and keep them
You get a zip in the same folder shape, ready to save to the school drive, share with families, or reprint any time.
Layouts come out exactly
Every newsletter and program comes out page for page, font for font. Nothing is re-flowed.
Private with student data
Files are stored securely in your account, a person never opens them, and only you can access them.
One pack covers the archive
First 3 files free. A $99 pack covers 250 files, or $299 covers 1,000, enough for a classroom's full history.
And next year's newsletter?
Keep publishing, too.
Saving the archive handles the past. For brand-new work, Canva for Education is a common free choice for classrooms, with templates a teacher can pick up quickly. If you would rather keep working from your existing .pub files, the PubKeep desktop app opens them natively and keeps the layouts editable, with no copy of Publisher needed. See the full rundown in Publisher alternatives.
Founding Classrooms
Help shape the app teachers keep.
The PubKeep desktop app opens your .pub files natively, so you can keep editing them, not just print them. Founding Classrooms are the schools and teachers who join the early access list now. You hear first when it opens, you lock the founder price, and we help you bring your whole classroom archive across. There is no ship date yet. Early access opens when the app clears our published fidelity gate, so you are never charged for a promise.
Questions
Questions from school offices.
Yes. PubKeep takes a whole folder of .pub files at once, subfolders included, and returns a matching zip of PDFs plus a report of anything that failed. A shared drive or a single classroom folder works the same way.
Files are stored securely in your account, a person never opens them, and only you can access them. A failed file is never charged.
Yes. For brand-new work, Canva for Education is a common free choice for classrooms. To keep editing your existing .pub files, the PubKeep desktop app opens them natively.
Yes. A PDF keeps every page exactly as Publisher drew it, page for page and font for font. Nothing is re-flowed.
The first 3 files are free. A $99 pack covers 250 files, and $299 covers 1,000, enough for a classroom's or an office's full archive.
Keep reading
Related guides.
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Ten minutes, one folder
Save your school's files before Publisher goes.
First 3 files free, just your email.