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Opening Publisher documents within Windows 7.
I would like to move numerous documents created in Publisher 2002 on a
computer running XP, to a new computer running Windows 7. Can I install Pub. 2002 on the new computer in order to do this? If it is necessary or desirable to upgrade to Pub. 10 (or later if such exists), will that run on Windows 7 ? Any advice would be welcome. -- jonathome |
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Opening Publisher documents within Windows 7.
This forum discusses Office XP and Windows 7. Have you tried installing
Publisher into its own folder? I understand Windows 7 has a very good compatibility mode. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...c-c67f539ed1f7 -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "johnathome" wrote in message ... I would like to move numerous documents created in Publisher 2002 on a computer running XP, to a new computer running Windows 7. Can I install Pub. 2002 on the new computer in order to do this? If it is necessary or desirable to upgrade to Pub. 10 (or later if such exists), will that run on Windows 7 ? Any advice would be welcome. -- jonathome |
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Opening Publisher documents within Windows 7.
Thanks for your suggestion Mary, I haven't tried to load up the Publisher
software onto the new computer yet, I was concerned as to whether there might be some conflict as the Publisher software that I have been using is several years old now and was created before Windows 7 even existed. I am somewhat surprised however, that Microsoft did not include the basic Publisher software in with the current Office software, but instead just appear to have ditched it in favour of Powerpoint. I'm sure that many people have countless stored Publisher documents in their files that they will want to open and use again for one reason or another, and this will therefore cause problems for many of them. It is not even very clear if the later Publisher upgrades are compatible with Windows 7. -- jonathome "Mary Sauer" wrote: This forum discusses Office XP and Windows 7. Have you tried installing Publisher into its own folder? I understand Windows 7 has a very good compatibility mode. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...c-c67f539ed1f7 -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "johnathome" wrote in message ... I would like to move numerous documents created in Publisher 2002 on a computer running XP, to a new computer running Windows 7. Can I install Pub. 2002 on the new computer in order to do this? If it is necessary or desirable to upgrade to Pub. 10 (or later if such exists), will that run on Windows 7 ? Any advice would be welcome. -- jonathome . |
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Opening Publisher documents within Windows 7.
Publisher was never really was part of the "basic" Office suite. The core
suite of Office Standard for many, many years was/is Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (and then Outlook was added in the mix as e-mail became more relevant). Publisher was first sold as a separate application, then was included in the "Small Business" version of Office (but no Outlook) and in Office Ultimate. More recently Office Professional included Publisher along with the four core programs. PowerPoint has always been in almost all versions of Office over the years. Office Home and Student (the least expensive bundle) is now what Office Standard used to be a few years back. Publisher can still be purchased as a separate program, if you have no need for the other applications. I don't see where you think there is a problem, AFAIK, Publisher 2002 should install just fine on 7, as does 2003 or 2007. So all you need do is install it on your new PC. As Mary pointed out, 7 does a very good job of emulated previous OS, but I don't think that will even be an issue. -- James Wolf [MS-MVP, Media Center] Orlando, FL "johnathome" wrote in message ... Thanks for your suggestion Mary, I haven't tried to load up the Publisher software onto the new computer yet, I was concerned as to whether there might be some conflict as the Publisher software that I have been using is several years old now and was created before Windows 7 even existed. I am somewhat surprised however, that Microsoft did not include the basic Publisher software in with the current Office software, but instead just appear to have ditched it in favour of Powerpoint. I'm sure that many people have countless stored Publisher documents in their files that they will want to open and use again for one reason or another, and this will therefore cause problems for many of them. It is not even very clear if the later Publisher upgrades are compatible with Windows 7. -- jonathome "Mary Sauer" wrote: This forum discusses Office XP and Windows 7. Have you tried installing Publisher into its own folder? I understand Windows 7 has a very good compatibility mode. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...c-c67f539ed1f7 -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "johnathome" wrote in message ... I would like to move numerous documents created in Publisher 2002 on a computer running XP, to a new computer running Windows 7. Can I install Pub. 2002 on the new computer in order to do this? If it is necessary or desirable to upgrade to Pub. 10 (or later if such exists), will that run on Windows 7 ? Any advice would be welcome. -- jonathome . |
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