How to save a Publisher publication as a

Word document
Export the Text in Your Publication

1. Start Publisher, and then open the publication that you want to save in Word.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.
3. In the Save As dialog box, specify a location where you want to save the file, and then type a
name for the text in the File name box.
4. In the Save as type box, click the file format appropriate for your version of Word. For example,
if you are running Microsoft Word 2000, click Word 97-2000 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc), and then
click Save.

After you click Save, you receive the following message:

The file type you selected only supports text. It does not support graphics or drawing objects. To
save only the text of this publication, click OK. To save the entire publication, click Cancel, and
then choose the Publisher (.pub) file type.

5. Click OK to save the text of your publication as a Word document (.doc).

6. Start Word.
7. On the File menu, click Open.
8. Locate the file that you saved, and then click Open.

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Paste Your Publication as a Picture

1. Start Microsoft Publisher, and then open the publication that you want to save in Word.
2. Click Select All on the Edit menu.
3. Click Copy on the Edit menu.
4. Start Microsoft Word, and then open a new blank document.
5. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
6. In the Paste Special dialog box, under As, click Picture, and then click OK.
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for every page of your publication.

Note that because Publisher allows you two layers on which to lay out a publication, objects in
the background page are not selected. You must move background objects to the foreground
page in order to select them. To do this, click Send to Foreground on the Arrange menu. This
may not always be possible for objects on all background pages. To move between foreground
and background pages, press CTRL+M, or click Go to Background or Go to Foreground on the
View menu.

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Save Your Publication as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Pages
To save the publication as HTML pages, follow the steps that are listed for your version of Publisher.

Microsoft Publisher 2000

1. Start Microsoft Publisher, and then open the publication that you want.
2. On the File menu, click Create Web Site from Current Publication.
3. When prompted to run the Design Checker, click Yes. The Design Checker scans your publication
for any potential design and performance issues.
4. On the File menu, click Save As.
5. In the Save As dialog box, specify a location where you want to save the Web site. Type a name
for the new Web pages in the File name box, and then click Save.
6. To publish your Web site, click Save as Web Page on the File menu.
7. In the Save as Web Page dialog box, accept the default Publish folder that Publisher creates
when you publish (save) your publication as HTML files, or specify another folder where you
want to publish the HTML files, and then click OK.

The Web site that was created from your publication is now published to a folder on your hard
disk. The home page file name and extension of the first page is Index.html. To view your home
page, double-click the Index.html page.
8. You can now send the folder and its contents as an email attachment or save it to a floppy disk
and distribute it for others to view.

Microsoft Publisher 2002 and Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

1. Start Microsoft Publisher, and then open the publication that you want.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.
3. In the Save As dialog box, specify a location where you want to save the HTML pages. In the File
name box, type a file name for the new file. In the Save as type box, click Web
Page(*.htm;*.html), and then click Save.

The publication is published to a folder on the hard disk. The home page is named file_name.htm. To
view the home page, use one of the following methods:

 Double-click the file_name.htm file.

 Right-click the file_name.htm file, and then click Open With. Then, select the program that you
want to use to open the file.

For more information about creating Web publications in Microsoft Publisher, click the following article
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
302770  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302770/ ) How to create a Web publication

For more information about creating Web sites in Microsoft Publisher, click Microsoft Publisher Help on
the Help menu, type create a Web site in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click
Search to view the topics returned.