When you want to reuse the content of a PDF in Microsoft Publisher but you lack access to the file from which you produced it, you can't import the file directly into your target application.

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 ...

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.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...