If you don't have Publisher, Microsoft's desktop publishing program, and a business associate sends you a Microsoft Publisher file, you have several options for opening it: convert it into a PDF for ...

Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word may be Office Suite bosom buddies, but that doesn't guarantee flawless interaction between the two when you want to open a saved document in the other program.

When reader Sarah joined her neighborhood association, she inherited the old neighborhood directory–in Microsoft Publisher format. She wants to update the directory, but doesn’t own a copy of ...

As for converting to word, it's going to be a mess as word doesn't do the same stuff as publisher. You can always try to save as a word file from publisher but IIRC it only saves the text frames.