Using Publisher 2000 files in Word 2000

[Serendipity]

In very simple words please...

How may I make mixed text and clipart files produced in Publisher 2000
be moved to Word 2000 and - remaining unchanged in appearance and
editability - save as .doc files?

Thank for any help and/or advice.
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[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Simply, you cannot.

Copy and paste via the clipboard is the only way and no layout format will
be retained.

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[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from Serendipity (e-mail address removed)...

How may I make mixed text and clipart files produced in Publisher 2000
be moved to Word 2000 and - remaining unchanged in appearance and
editability - save as .doc files?

In two very simple words:
You can't.

You can create a PDF file, but you lose editability.

 

[Serendipity]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from Serendipity (e-mail address removed)...

In two very simple words:
You can't.

You can create a PDF file, but you lose editability.

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Thank you Ed.

It looks as though I will have to carry out
a lot more DTP in Word!

John
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[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

Well, no you don't. You can either edit it with Acrobat, which can be
costly, or you can use ScanSoft's PDF converter. It *seems* to work
fairly well. I really haven't put it thru its paces yet but so far
it's okay. And it's a less costly option - $50US.

But you lose full editability while it's in the PDF format (you ever tried
editing PDF files within Acrobat?)

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

Okay, I see what you mean. I have PDF Converter and I know that you
can open a .pdf in Word, do your editing and you have to change the
file name to save it. Because I have Acrobat I'm never sure if I can
open the edited file as a .pdf if you *don't* have it installed.

You cannot edit a PDF with Acrobat Reader.
(It's been a long day - I almost wrote "You cannot open a PDF with Acrobat
Reader". Too much mechanics!)

 

[Mike Koewler]

What version of Word will allow you to open a pdf file? I have Word 97
and it opens just the text version (something akin to postscript).

Mike

 

[Mike Koewler]

Send me an e-mail with a pdf attachment and I'll let you know. But I
suspect the answer is yes.

I hope the program you are using doesn't convert the pdf to Word's
parameters. I would shudder to think 300 dpi CMYK images get changed to
96 dpi RGB images. :-(

Mike

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi Mike Koewler ([email protected])
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| What version of Word will allow you to open a pdf file? I have Word
|| 97 and it opens just the text version (something akin to postscript).

Word 2003:
http://www.scansoft.com/pdfconverter/

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Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
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