Publisher will open the file formats listed below. In most cases, Publisher can preserve the character and paragraph formatting of text.

• Microsoft Publisher version 2.0 or later (files with a .pub extenstion)
• Plain Text (files with a .txt extension)
• Rich Text Format (files with an .rtf extension)
• Hypertext Markup Language (files with an .html, .htm, .mhtml, or .mht extension)
• Unicode (Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character set.) text
• Microsoft Word 97-2002
• WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x
• Microsoft Works 6.0 & 7.0

You can save your publications in any of the file formats listed below. Some file formats cannot support the graphics and layout in your publication, and the appearance of your publication may change after you save it to a new file format.

• Publisher 98 and Publisher 2000

  Note  Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 saves in the same file format as Publisher 2002. You do not need to select a specific file format to save a publication as a Publisher 2002 file.

• Plain Text (files with a .txt extension)
• Rich Text Format (files with an .rtf extension)
• Hypertext Markup Language (files with an .html, .htm, .mhtml, or .mht extension)
• Unicode (Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character set.) text
• PostScript (files with a .ps extenstion)
• Microsoft Word 97-2002 & 6.0 /95 RTF
• Microsoft Works 6.0 & 7.0
• Image formats (files with a .gif, .jpeg, .tif, .png, and .bmp extension)
• Metafile formats (files with a .wmf and .emf extension)