Opening different versions of Publisher w/Pub 2000

I found a relative simple fix. using two computers. Open the document in Pub
2000 (In my case the originating program must have been Office Publisher
97/98) then resave with new name. It will save with the new date of origin.
Then copy the file to the new computer that has Pub 2007 installed.

Then it will open in Pub 2007. Then resave it again. It will save in the
2007 format if you say yes to the question do you want to save in new (2007)
format.

Why the developers Microsoft Publisher do not provide a fix or add on for
reading (importing)previous Publisher documents is beyone me But the above
worked for me.

Dick

"Effy" wrote:

I have Pub 2000 version 6. I have a CD with Publisher 2000 documents on it.
I cannot open the files as I get the message Publisher cannot open files from
a different version. The online help was no help! Open the file and save it
in a different version--that would be easy if you could open the file in the
first place!!

Any suggestions? Would upgrading to 2003 help or would I have the same
problem?