How to convert a Microsoft Publisher file to PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a sensible new home for flyers, posters, certificates and one-page layouts. Each page sits on a slide, and you can move text boxes and pictures freely, a lot like Publisher. The easiest way to get there is EditMyPub: upload your .pub file and get back a PowerPoint file you can open in the program you already know.

First, the honest bit: there is no built-in "Save as PowerPoint"

Microsoft suggests PowerPoint (or Word) for many things people used Publisher for, such as flyers, brochures, posters, banners and certificates. But Microsoft's own conversion advice for existing files is to save them as PDF, or as PDF and then Word. Publisher has no direct export to PowerPoint, and PowerPoint cannot open .pub files.

The easy way: EditMyPub

EditMyPub converts a .pub file into a PowerPoint (.pptx) file. Each page becomes a slide at the original page size, with the text in text boxes you can edit. It works in any web browser, so there is nothing to install and no new program to learn.

Upload your .pub file at editmypub.com.
Look over the free watermarked preview.
Pay and download one .zip with your .pptx, plus Word (.docx), LibreOffice Draw (.odg), a PDF, page images and a list of the fonts your file uses.
Open the .pptx in PowerPoint and edit as normal.

On newsletters, linked stories are re-flowed in reading order, so the text does not pile up. Prices are $12 for one file, $39 for 10 and $99 for 50. Converting a lot of files? Bulk upload takes up to 50 .pub files or one .zip.

Please know the limits before you buy:

Text stays in its boxes. Each story sits in the box it belongs to, ready to edit in PowerPoint, and the free preview shows you the result before you pay.
Pictures arrive as picture-filled shapes. Each picture sits inside a rectangle. You can move and resize it as normal. To swap the picture, look in the shape's fill settings rather than the usual picture tools.
Text wrapped around pictures follows the picture's outline in small steps, using extra text boxes, so you may need to nudge some lines.
Tables, WordArt and effects may come through as plain shapes or text.
Fonts. If a font from the original is not installed, text may wrap differently. The preview shows which fonts your file uses.
Linked boxes stop being linked. PowerPoint does not link text boxes, so after conversion each box holds its own part of the story. If you add a lot of text to one box later, it will not flow into the next.

If the result does not work for you, our refund policy gives a full refund within 30 days.

Other ways

Rebuild in PowerPoint, using the old file as a guide

Open the .pub file in Publisher, if you still have it, or install LibreOffice and open it in LibreOffice Draw. See how to open a .pub file.
In PowerPoint, set the slide to your page size: Design > Slide Size > Custom Slide Size. For a US letter flyer, that is 8.5 by 11 inches.
Copy the text from the old file and paste it into new PowerPoint text boxes.
Save the pictures from the old file and insert them in PowerPoint.

The trade-off: it can work for a single simple flyer, but it is slow for anything longer, and without Publisher you have to install and learn LibreOffice just to get at the content. EditMyPub puts every text box and picture on the slide for you.

Page pictures as a starting point

Open the file in LibreOffice Draw and export each page as a picture (File > Export, then choose PNG).
In PowerPoint, insert the picture on a slide of the same size.
Put new text boxes over the parts you want to change.

The trade-off: this keeps the look, but the old text is part of the picture and cannot be edited. It works for "change the date and reprint" jobs, not for real rework. EditMyPub gives you page images as well, alongside a .pptx where the text is still editable.

Another online PUB to PPTX converter

Aspose offers a free online converter that turns a .pub file into a .pptx file. Its page says uploaded files are deleted after 24 hours and does not state a size limit. When we tried it on October 21, 2026, it returned server errors. We have not judged its quality, so look closely at the result, and think twice before uploading private files. The trade-off: linked newsletter stories are the main thing free converters get wrong. EditMyPub re-flows them in reading order and shows you a preview before you pay.

Why not LibreOffice straight to PowerPoint?

LibreOffice opens .pub files in Draw, its drawing program. Draw saves to its own format (.odg), PDF and pictures, but it does not save to PowerPoint format. When we tried the LibreOffice command line converter on a .pub file with PowerPoint as the target, it stopped with "no export filter". So LibreOffice is a viewer and editor, but not a direct bridge to PowerPoint.

Ready to try it?

Upload your .pub file and see the free watermarked preview first. For a whole archive of flyers and certificates, use bulk upload and get one email with everything ready to download.