Convert .pub to .doc (2003, SP1)

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I have inherited a publication that really should be a Word document. If I save it as .doc, it gets completely messed up; all the columns are gone and the order of various sections get changed. Is this something I have to live with or is there a way to successfully convert from .pub to .doc?

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Andrew,

Can you copy all the items in the .pub doc and paste them into the word document?

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No, that just copies the text. All the formatting (bold, italic, columns, etc.) is lost.

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(Edited by Leif on 12-Oct-04 16:40. to reduce (physical) size of attached graphic.)

Andrew,

I was able to copy everything intact by selecting the entire Publisher document, copying the group and then pasting it into a new word document. All font settings (bold, Italics, etc), columns, and images were moved and look just like the publisher document.

Don

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Thar’s weird. How do you select the entire document? When I press Ctrl+A, only the currently viewable pages get selected. Most of the text is in text boxes and I can only select text in one text box at a time. If I copy the selected text box to the clipboard and try to paste it into Word, Word gives me a VB run-time error 5342 ‘The specified data type is unavailable’. Also, you said you ‘copy the group’. I’m not sure what you mean by that.

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Andrew,

Using the arrow click and drag your mouse from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. That should select everything. Then do cntrl-c to copy everything from the Publisher page and then paste in a new word document using cntrl-v.

(thanks Leif I don’t have a graphics editor here ro resize my images.)

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Don,

That only selects the two pages in the two page spread, not the whole document, and pasting it results in the error I mentioned in my earlier post (error 5342).

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You would need Adobe 6 to do it but you could convert it to PDF and then convert the PDF to a text file and then the text file to word…….

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OK. I have Acrobat Professional 6.0 (I presume that’s what you meant by Adobe 6.0). I will give it a shot. Thanks for the hint.

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OK. I have Acrobat Professional 6.0 (I presume that’s what you meant by Adobe 6.0). I will give it a shot. Thanks for the hint.

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You would need Adobe 6 to do it but you could convert it to PDF and then convert the PDF to a text file and then the text file to word…….

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Don,

That only selects the two pages in the two page spread, not the whole document, and pasting it results in the error I mentioned in my earlier post (error 5342).

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Andrew,

Using the arrow click and drag your mouse from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. That should select everything. Then do cntrl-c to copy everything from the Publisher page and then paste in a new word document using cntrl-v.

(thanks Leif I don’t have a graphics editor here ro resize my images.)

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Thar’s weird. How do you select the entire document? When I press Ctrl+A, only the currently viewable pages get selected. Most of the text is in text boxes and I can only select text in one text box at a time. If I copy the selected text box to the clipboard and try to paste it into Word, Word gives me a VB run-time error 5342 ‘The specified data type is unavailable’. Also, you said you ‘copy the group’. I’m not sure what you mean by that.

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(Edited by Leif on 12-Oct-04 16:40. to reduce (physical) size of attached graphic.)

Andrew,

I was able to copy everything intact by selecting the entire Publisher document, copying the group and then pasting it into a new word document. All font settings (bold, Italics, etc), columns, and images were moved and look just like the publisher document.

Don

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No, that just copies the text. All the formatting (bold, italic, columns, etc.) is lost.

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Andrew,

Can you copy all the items in the .pub doc and paste them into the word document?

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