If you don't have Publisher, Microsoft's desktop publishing program, and a business associate sends you a Microsoft Publisher file, you have several options for opening it: convert it into a PDF for ...

As for converting to word, it's going to be a mess as word doesn't do the same stuff as publisher. You can always try to save as a word file from publisher but IIRC it only saves the text frames.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

When you want to reuse the content of a PDF in Microsoft Publisher but you lack access to the file from which you produced it, you can't import the file directly into your target application.