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Publisher 2003 vs 2000 on network
My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has
Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000 document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done? |
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I don't think by viewing the file it would change the format. Do you have Norton
installed? Might disable "script blocking" and Office plug-ins in Norton options. I would suggest when your PR person views the file, she saves the file as 2000 just to be on the safe side. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "LesaZ" wrote in message ... My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000 document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done? |
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Thanks Mary. I don't recall if we have Norton on the system at work - I'm at
home right now. But I'm thinking no. // I'll be sure to mention the suggestion of saving into Publisher 2000. // If it's not too complex to describe, could you indicate what the issue is with the two Norton functions you suggested turning off? "Mary Sauer" wrote: I don't think by viewing the file it would change the format. Do you have Norton installed? Might disable "script blocking" and Office plug-ins in Norton options. I would suggest when your PR person views the file, she saves the file as 2000 just to be on the safe side. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "LesaZ" wrote in message ... My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000 document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done? |
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Probably a safer thing to do would be for them to get in the habbit of cpying
the file to their local drive befor opening it, I would not reccomend saving a file in an newer version and then back saving it to an older version, Publihser 2000 and Publisher 2003 handle objects and hyphnation differently enough that text can reflow, frames can chnage as well as other issues. Most of these are covered in the Publisher Prepress manual, but I'm not sure if that manual is available to the general public. -- Mike Bailey Prepress Technician Richmond BC (formerly Surrey BC) Canada "LesaZ" wrote: Thanks Mary. I don't recall if we have Norton on the system at work - I'm at home right now. But I'm thinking no. // I'll be sure to mention the suggestion of saving into Publisher 2000. // If it's not too complex to describe, could you indicate what the issue is with the two Norton functions you suggested turning off? "Mary Sauer" wrote: I don't think by viewing the file it would change the format. Do you have Norton installed? Might disable "script blocking" and Office plug-ins in Norton options. I would suggest when your PR person views the file, she saves the file as 2000 just to be on the safe side. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "LesaZ" wrote in message ... My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000 document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done? |
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Thanks Mike and Mary, I'll get in touch this week with the PR person and
we'll check your suggestions out. It's great to have access to help like this. "Mike Bailey" wrote: Probably a safer thing to do would be for them to get in the habbit of cpying the file to their local drive befor opening it, I would not reccomend saving a file in an newer version and then back saving it to an older version, Publihser 2000 and Publisher 2003 handle objects and hyphnation differently enough that text can reflow, frames can chnage as well as other issues. Most of these are covered in the Publisher Prepress manual, but I'm not sure if that manual is available to the general public. -- Mike Bailey Prepress Technician Richmond BC (formerly Surrey BC) Canada "LesaZ" wrote: Thanks Mary. I don't recall if we have Norton on the system at work - I'm at home right now. But I'm thinking no. // I'll be sure to mention the suggestion of saving into Publisher 2000. // If it's not too complex to describe, could you indicate what the issue is with the two Norton functions you suggested turning off? "Mary Sauer" wrote: I don't think by viewing the file it would change the format. Do you have Norton installed? Might disable "script blocking" and Office plug-ins in Norton options. I would suggest when your PR person views the file, she saves the file as 2000 just to be on the safe side. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "LesaZ" wrote in message ... My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000 document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done? |
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