On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:49:42 -0400, Wolffan
wrote:

On 19 Aug 2020, Peter Jason wrote
(in ):

I have been changing over from MSoft Word to MSoft Publisher to print
labels.

How can I save a word document (table) as a Publisher one (*.pub)?

Please help.

Errmm... why?

1 Word has label-printing capability. Under the Mailings tab there should be
something about envelopes and labels. Word supports a vast number of labels
out of the box, and the big label vendors (Avery, etc.) have free templates
on their sites supporting more.

I find Publisher is easier to make tables.

2 Publisher will read Word docs. Publisher will probably screw up the docs,
because it’s _Publisher_ and has _never_ worked well.

3 I don’t recommend using Publisher for anything. Word handles many layout
problems, and using a real layout app instead of Publisher will get better
results.

4 don’t use a normal Word table, use the label setup. It’s trivial to
use: select the kind of labels you want to use (vendor, paper size, label
type; for example, Avery. US letter size, 16460 address labels; pick the
vendor, size, and type you need, of course). And you can use the built-in
tools to generate your required labels so that you don’t need to type them
in yourself. Or just copy and paste as needed.

I’ve been using Word’s mailing tools to generate labels for more than 30
years.

An alternative method is simply to get hold of a specialist label printer. We
have an ancient label printer at the office. It shipped with tools to grab
Word output and dump it to labels semi-automatically. If you print a _lot_ of
labels a label printer will pay for itself very quickly. If you don’t need
that capability, Word is more than adequate.

Stay away from Publisher unless you absolutely, positively, have no other
choice.