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Old August 19th 20, 05:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

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.
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Old August 19th 20, 10:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

Peter Jason wrote:
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.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Publisher

"LibreOffice has supported Publisher's proprietary
file format (.pub) since February 2013."

And LO handles .docx in LO Writer, so you'd be using
LO Writer to work between .docx and .pub. Each of the
LO tools supports different file extensions, and at a
guess, it's probably Writer that you'd be using.

If that did not work, you could see if your tool flow
supports .rtf as an intermediary. Rich Text Format
was a kind of interworking file format, which in my
opinion, never worked 100%. One of the acid tests I had,
was to export as RTF, import as RTF, and see if the
documents look the same.

I would be really surprised, if Microsoft didn't have
some capability to go back and forth. But if you
can't figure it out, you can try LibreOffice.

Another format, in the year 2020, might be PDF, but
I'd save that path as a "pure desperation" option.

If I wanted to run LO and Office on the same machine,
I'd probably run LO in a VM (virtual machine), so
the tools can't "see" each other. It's the file association
I'd be worried about (not only controlling the associations
at installation time, but also dealing with bizarre behaviors
every time the two softwares run). They could mess around
at any time if they wanted to. For example, in the past,
a copy of LO here, would upset Microsoft Word Viewer (freebie).

Paul
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Old August 19th 20, 10:57 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Chris
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

Peter Jason wrote:
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.


Word has an inbuilt label printer, so there shouldn't be any need to go via
publisher.

https://www.howtogeek.com/408499/how...abels-in-word/

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Old August 19th 20, 02:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Roger Mills[_2_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

On 19/08/2020 05:46, Peter Jason wrote:
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.


I don't think that you can directly convert a Word document to a
Publisher document.

But you can create a new blank Publisher document and then copy and
paste the table into it from Word, and then save the Publisher document.

It's best if you use Edit/Paste Special, and then select Picture(Windows
Metafile) or Picture(Enhanced Metafile) - experiment to see which is
better. You can then use the re-sizing handles on the pasted image to
get it looking how you want it. I've done this a lot with tables from
Excel, but tables from Word should work in the same way.

I'm using office 2007 by the way, but would expect other versions to
behave similarly.
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Roger
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Old August 19th 20, 02:49 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Wolffan[_3_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

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.

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.

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Old August 19th 20, 02:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Wolffan[_3_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

On 19 Aug 2020, Paul wrote
(in article ):

Peter Jason wrote:
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.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Publisher

"LibreOffice has supported Publisher's proprietary
file format (.pub) since February 2013."

And LO handles .docx in LO Writer, so you'd be using
LO Writer to work between .docx and .pub. Each of the
LO tools supports different file extensions, and at a
guess, it's probably Writer that you'd be using.

If that did not work, you could see if your tool flow
supports .rtf as an intermediary. Rich Text Format
was a kind of interworking file format, which in my
opinion, never worked 100%. One of the acid tests I had,
was to export as RTF, import as RTF, and see if the
documents look the same.

I would be really surprised, if Microsoft didn't have
some capability to go back and forth. But if you
can't figure it out, you can try LibreOffice.

Another format, in the year 2020, might be PDF, but
I'd save that path as a "pure desperation" option.

If I wanted to run LO and Office on the same machine,
I'd probably run LO in a VM (virtual machine), so
the tools can't "see" each other. It's the file association
I'd be worried about (not only controlling the associations
at installation time, but also dealing with bizarre behaviors
every time the two softwares run). They could mess around
at any time if they wanted to. For example, in the past,
a copy of LO here, would upset Microsoft Word Viewer (freebie).

Paul


Why in Christ’s name are you going to LibreOffice when Publisher will read
Word files or you could just copy/paste or just use the label tools in Word?

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Old August 19th 20, 03:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Wolffan[_3_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

On 19 Aug 2020, Roger Mills wrote
(in article ):

On 19/08/2020 05:46, Peter Jason wrote:
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.


I don't think that you can directly convert a Word document to a
Publisher document.


The last time that I used Publisher there was an ‘import’ feature which
would pull in DOC files. It’s been a while since I went near Publisher,
DOCX didn’t exist yet, and of course if Microsoft wanted to be idiots they
could have deleted the function (digs up a Windows machine, loads
Publisher... yep, still there, under the Insert tab. Reads DOCX.)



But you can create a new blank Publisher document and then copy and
paste the table into it from Word, and then save the Publisher document.


That works too.



It's best if you use Edit/Paste Special, and then select Picture(Windows
Metafile) or Picture(Enhanced Metafile) - experiment to see which is
better. You can then use the re-sizing handles on the pasted image to
get it looking how you want it. I've done this a lot with tables from
Excel, but tables from Word should work in the same way.

I'm using office 2007 by the way, but would expect other versions to
behave similarly.


Office 2019/365/whatever Microsoft is calling it today works too.

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Old August 19th 20, 03:20 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

Wolffan wrote:


Why in Christ’s name are you going to LibreOffice when Publisher will read
Word files or you could just copy/paste or just use the label tools in Word?


I'm assuming the OP has already tried the obvious.

DTP is a sparse matrix. There are lots of things that
should have worked, that don't. In the old days, I could
export out of Microsoft in RTF, import the item back
in, and Microsoft would fail the "identify test". The
document didn't look the same.

The more options you find for doing stuff, the more
options you have for bodging together a result.

Paul

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Old August 19th 20, 03:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jonathan N. Little[_2_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

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


It was "okay" to make that sign to keep the coffee station clean in the
office *IF* you print to a local printer. Crap for anything else like a
graphic to any printshop...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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Old August 19th 20, 04:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Wolffan[_3_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

On 19 Aug 2020, Jonathan N. Little wrote
(in article ):

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


It was "okay" to make that sign to keep the coffee station clean in the
office *IF* you print to a local printer.


Word was and is better for that kind of thing.

Crap for anything else like a
graphic to any printshop...


I used to do pre-press for a newspaper. We did a lot of print jobs for other
people. We hated to see a print job come in using Publisher format. We hated
it so much that we inserted a line into the standard print job form saying
that we accepted Word, RTF, Word Perfect, Quark, PageMaker, PDF, and InDesign
but not Publisher documents.

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Old August 20th 20, 01:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jonathan N. Little[_2_]
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

Wolffan wrote:
On 19 Aug 2020, Jonathan N. Little wrote
(in article ):

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


It was "okay" to make that sign to keep the coffee station clean in the
office *IF* you print to a local printer.


Word was and is better for that kind of thing.


I said "okay", not a real endorsement.


--
Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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Old August 20th 20, 06:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default I want to save a Word table as a Publisher one.

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.



 




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