How Can I Open a Publisher Document?

Marketing and business documents

Microsoft Office Publisher is a program typically included in the Microsoft Office Suite and includes desktop publishing applications enabling the creation, personalization and sharing of various marketing communications materials. A Microsoft Publisher document typically has a file extension format of .pub. If you do not have Microsoft Office Publisher, there is an alternative solution to opening a Publisher document. Contact the creator of the document and ask him to save the document to a different format that you can view, such as a .txt format, which represents a plain text document, or a .docx format, representing a Word 2007 document. If the content is of greater importance than the layout, the optimal format would be plain ASCII text, but if graphics must remain, intact ASCII text will not suffice.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Word

Instructions

Using Microsoft Publisher

1. Open Microsoft Office Publisher. Select and click "All Programs" on the task bar, then select and click "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Office Publisher."

2. Click "File" on the Microsoft Office Publisher tools menu and then click "Open" on the "File" menu to open a Microsoft Office Publisher document with a .pub format. The .pub file is the default format for Microsoft Office Publisher.

3. Locate the Microsoft Office Publisher document (.pub) file on your hard drive. Once the Microsoft Office Publisher document file is located, select and click the "filename.pub" file to open it.

4. Save your Microsoft Office Publisher document when finished. Click the "Microsoft Office" button and then click the "Save As" menu option. The file name box contains the "filename," and the "Save as" type contains "Publisher Files" because the file being saved is a Microsoft Office Publisher document. Click "Save."

Using WordPad

1. Open WordPad, the word processor included with the Windows operating system. Select and click "All Programs" on the task bar, then select and click "Accessories" and "WordPad."

2. Click "File" on the WordPad main menu and then click "Open" on the "File" menu to open a Microsoft Office Publisher document with a .txt format. The .txt file is the default format for plain text.

3. Locate the WordPad document (.txt) file on your hard drive. Once the WordPad document file is located, select and click the "filename.txt" file to open it.

4. Save your WordPad document when finished. Click "File" on the WordPad main menu and then click "Save As" on the "File" menu. The file name and path box contains the "filename and path," and "Save as" type contains "text document" because the file being saved is a WordPad document. Click "Save."

Using Word 2007

1. Open Microsoft Office Word. Select and click "All Programs" on the task bar, then select and click "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Office Word."

2. Click "File" and then "Open" on the Microsoft Office Word 2007 main menu to open a Microsoft Office Publisher document with a .docx format. The .docx file is the default format for Microsoft Office Word 2007.

3. Locate the Microsoft Office Word document (.docx) file on your hard drive. Once the Microsoft Office Word document is located, select and click the "filename.docx" file to open it.

4. Save your Microsoft Office Word document when finished. Click the "Microsoft Office" button and then click the "Save As" menu option. The file name box contains the "filename" and "Save as" type contains "Word document" because the file being saved is a Microsoft Office Word document. Click "Save."

References

• "Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 for Dummies"; Jim McCarter; 2008