converting web page files from publisher 2007 to word 2008

[plee]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) One of the reasons I got office 2008 for my new Mac was to retrieve my web files. well ta da, no ms publisher with office 2008. what do i do except start all over again. for sure not with office this time.

 

[Rob Schneider]

With your new Mac, buy VMWare Fusion, install Windows 7, install your
old Office for Windows and get on with it using Microsoft Publisher from
there.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[John McGhie]

Naaahhhh Install Parallels 5 and then do all that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VMware_Fusion_and_Parallels_Deskt
op

Publisher will never be released for the Mac. If you want to do publishing,
get Indesign: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/

That's the industry standard, and for many Mac users, it's the reason they
own a Mac

Cheers

With your new Mac, buy VMWare Fusion, install Windows 7, install your
old Office for Windows and get on with it using Microsoft Publisher from
there.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

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[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) One of the
reasons I got office 2008 for my new Mac was to retrieve my web files.
well ta da, no ms publisher with office 2008. what do i do except start
all over again. for sure not with office this time.

Word on the Mac can open web pages. Did you try using File > Open in
Word to open the HTML web pages?

-Jim

 

[Rob Schneider]

The OP wanted to use Publisher though.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[Clive Huggan]

It's not clear what the OP wanted to do: "retrieve my web files" could mean
all sorts of things. Probably it was just a vent against Microsoft, and
therefore had therapeutic value only.

Why anyone would use Publisher when Pages is available is beyond me, though.

CH
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[plee]

Actually I would like to open my publisher web page files and save them to iWeb. I would like to be able to afford Adobe Dreamweaver for my Mac but that won't happen this month. In the mean time I will try and open the web page files in i'web and see what happens. Does that mean I can open them from a memory stick from iWeb? or should I open them in pages and then send them to iWeb. I do not want Windows or Publisher. I have my Mac now!
thanks for the help.

 

[John McGhie]

Those web page files are just "files" to the computer.

You can use Finder on the Mac to simply COPY them up to your iWeb, which the
Finder can open as a folder.

When the files get there, you will have to fix various things: Publisher
writes pretty horrible HTML which won't work properly in a Mac Browser.

Cheers

Actually I would like to open my publisher web page files and save them to
iWeb. I would like to be able to afford Adobe Dreamweaver for my Mac but that
won't happen this month. In the mean time I will try and open the web page
files in i'web and see what happens. Does that mean I can open them from a
memory stick from iWeb? or should I open them in pages and then send them to
iWeb. I do not want Windows or Publisher. I have my Mac now!
thanks for the help.

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]