Microsoft Publisher Import Filter

Has anyone ever successfully used this feature? I am trying to wean my church away from Publisher - they actually bought Graphics Suite 2024. Unfortunately all of those legacy Publisher files they have simply cannot be opened using this filter. I even saved one file back to Publisher 98 and it wouldn't open. Flat out useless filter if you ask me. Sure would be nice if it did work. All I can do now is copy/paste text from either the Pub file or from a PDF. Fix it, please.