Opening Publisher 2000 files with PowerPoint 2003

[DDB]

Can I open files created with Publisher 2000 with PowerPoint 2003? If not,
is there a work-a-round by saving Publisher 2000 files as Word 2000
documents, then importing the Word 2000 document into PowerPoint 2003?
-ddb

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have Publisher?
You can copy the Publisher objects into PowerPoint or Word, but you need
Publisher. Word or PowerPoint cannot open Publisher files.

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm afraid the answer to both is No. PPt can't open a Pub file & Pub can't
output a [decent] Word doc.

I've never tried it, but the one common denominator that *may* work is to
Save as Web Page from Pub 2000. Word or PPt may be able to open it in a
recognizable form. Would be interesting to know how you make out.

 

[DDB]

I do have Publisher and Word 2000 installed. A test case confirms that I
can copy objects from Publisher and paste them in Word. I assume this would
work with Word 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. Guess I'll need to keep Publisher
2000 on my machine when I install Office 2003 Student & Home Suite. I'll
use the "copy/paste" routine to transfer my 20 or so Publisher files to
PowerPoint 2003.
Thanks for the help.
ddb