Save the text in your publication as a Word document

You can bring information from your Publisher publication into a Microsoft Word document. For example, if your publication contains a large amount of text that you want to reuse, you can save the text from your publication as a Word document. Or, if you designed a page in Publisher that you want to use as a book cover in your Word document, you can paste the page into the Word document and then print the document from Word.

If you use the Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95  RTF converter to save your publication, a message tells you that the selected file type supports only text. The text and font formatting (font, size, style, underline, color, and effects) are preserved. However, design elements such as graphics, columns, headers and footers, and page numbers are not preserved.

These are some helpful tips for the best results when saving the text in your publication as a Word document:
1. Make sure that text box boundaries in your publication don't overlap.
2. Headers and footers and page numbers are not preserved when you save your publication; you can add these to your document in Word after you save it.
3. Page breaks in your publication are ignored; you can insert page breaks in the Word document after you save it.
4. Graphics in your publication are not preserved. Plan to add graphics to the Word document after you save it. If you want to add graphics from the publication, you can copy any graphics you want and paste them into the Word document.
5. To Save your publication as a Word document.
6. Open the publication that you want to save as a Word document. On the File menu, click Save As. In the File name box, type a name for the Word document. In the Save as type box, click Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 RTF. Click Save.