Posted by dorayme on 05/30/06 21:09

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<0001HW.C0A1CFE90280A42CF0284530@news.individual.net>,
Sally Thompson <me2@privacy.net> wrote:

> > I have some .pub docs I need to extract info from. If I get
> > Publisher and stick it on a Windows box and open these docs, is
> > it relatively straightforward to extract the pics and text so I
> > can get them out to my Mac to include in a website? Not keen on
> > stopping to learn a MS product right now... (My client has no
> > time or particular knowledge about this, the .pub are part of the
> > materials given to me).
>
> Hi dorayme! I don't have Publisher these days, but AFAIR you can drag the
> images off the page onto the desktop, and then save them from there onto a
> USB stick or something. With the text, it is in text boxes, and I think
> there is a choice to "edit in Word". Then you can save the Word files and
> extract the text from there.

Thanks, Sally, this is what I was hoping... Excellent.

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dorayme

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