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Publisher to Word

The words, headings, lists and pictures — not the layout. It says so.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Publisher to Word

  1. Drop the .pub file.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the DOCX.

What happens to your file

There is no honest Publisher-to-Word: Publisher is a page-layout program and Word is a flowing document. So the file is first rendered to PDF by LibreOffice Draw, then the PDF becomes a DOCX the way PDF to Word does — text in reading order with headings, lists, emphasis and pictures. Frames, columns and exact placement do not survive, and the report marks the result lossy.

For a faithful copy, Publisher to PDF; for the words to reuse, this.

Questions

Why is everything in one column?

Because a Word file flows; a Publisher page is placed. The text is all there, in reading order, to be laid out again in Word.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "docx"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.