Desktop publishing software is extremely proprietary; one program cannot documents created in another. Your best bet is to find somebody with Microsoft Publisher who can export the document in another format, such as PDF.
If you have Publisher 2007, you should open the file in there, and then chose "Save as". When you click on the arrow that will show you all possibilities, you will see "Publisher 2000" there. "Save as Publisher 2000" and then you can open it with your older version.
Yes - Microsoft Publisher can open Microsoft Word files without any problems.
First you would have to have Microsoft Publisher in order to view or edit .pub files. The program Microsoft Publisher can be opened by going to Start->All Programs->Microsoft Office->Microsoft Publisher.
Open Office files are 'open document format' - Microsoft programs should have no problem opening them.
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I used Microsoft Word to open my document for my science project.
Open it with word 2007 and then save it from Save as command
to open Microsoft word double click it, to open a document you have previously saved on Microsoft word go to file in the corner and select open, then search for your file.
In Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, open your Publisher document. On the menu bar, click on File. Then choose "Publish as PDF or XPS..." from the File menu. In the resulting Save dialog box, make sure the save type is PDF. Finally, click on "Publish". Both the Publisher document and the new PDF file will now reside on your system.
In Microsoft Word, you can open a new document based on a template using CTRL + N as the keyboard shortcut.
Go for Open Office better than Microsoft doc for Netbooks
In Microsoft Word, you can open a new document based on a template using CTRL + N as the keyboard shortcut.