When reader Sarah joined her neighborhood association, she inherited the old neighborhood directory–in Microsoft Publisher format. She wants to update the directory, but doesn’t own a copy of ...

Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word may be Office Suite bosom buddies, but that doesn't guarantee flawless interaction between the two when you want to open a saved document in the other program.

Files created with Microsoft Publisher, a desktop publishing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite for Windows, cannot be directly opened on a Mac, due to the lack of applications that ...

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.

Microsoft Publisher support ends Oct 2026; you have eight months to export your files. Publisher becomes unusable after cutoff; migrate to alternatives well before Oct 2026. Microsoft recommends ...