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 is software used to create many creative publications, such as calendars, booklets, cards, certificates, and many more. But did you know that you can import text into the ...

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.