Opening Publisher 2000 files with PowerPoint 2003

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
Fri Jan 05 11:15:08 CST 2007

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.



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"DDB" <draytonb@ieee.org> wrote in message
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> 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
>

CyberTaz
Fri Jan 05 11:21:26 CST 2007

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.

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"DDB" <draytonb@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:u7xPVoOMHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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
>

DDB
Fri Jan 05 16:19:59 CST 2007

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

"Mary Sauer" <mary-sauer@mycolumbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>
> "DDB" <draytonb@ieee.org> wrote in message
> news:u7xPVoOMHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>
>