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Old May 15th, 2009, 05:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Mat23sook
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I am having problem with the navigation bar on the bottom of my web page.
The links seem to be properly set up and work while working inside publisher.
Once I preview as a web page or publish, the links no longer work. Any
thoughts? Thank you!
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Old May 16th, 2009, 01:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
DavidF
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Default Navigation Bar

You did not specify what version of Publisher you are using or which
browser, but it sounds like you are previewing the site in FireFox. The
bottom navbar is converted to an image in both Pub 2003 and 2007 webs for
the version of the web pages that are rendered by FireFox. The html coding
engine produces a different version for IE. The fix for this issue was to
select the bottom navbars Arrange ungroup. Now however there is a bigger
issue with how Publisher 2003 and 2007 web pages render in IE8, and the fix
for that issue will address your bottom navbar issue at the same time:

The only compatibility issues with Publisher 2003 and 2007 and IE8 RTW
reported thus far are problems associated with 'grouping'. Any design
elements that are 'grouped' together, which includes the Publisher wizard
built navbars, do not render when you view the web page in IE8 . The fix in
general is to ungroup the elements. There is both a manual fix to these
issues and a Service Patch that has been issued to fix it.

Reference: Navigation bars and other content is missing from Publisher HTML
output in Internet Explorer 8: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969705

A manual method of fixing this grouping issue:

Prior to uploading your pages find all text boxes and other design elements
that are grouped together and ungroup. You can Save those changes to your
publication. Then make a copy of your publication by doing a 'File Save
As' and in this copy go to each page Edit Select All Arrange
Ungroup. This will ungroup the Publisher built navbar(s) and disconnect it
from the wizard, and the navbars will render correctly in IE8. 'Publish to
the Web' from this copy of your publication. When you want to make further
changes in your web, go back to the original Publisher file, make the
corrections there, save your changes, and again make a copy, ungroup the
navbars and produce new web files for uploading. The advantage of this
workflow is that you will not have to rebuild the navbar if you choose to
add a page to the navbar. If you do not need to add a page, you can leave
the navbar ungrouped and skip the step of saving a copy each time you modify
the file.

This is also fixed with the Office 2007 SP2:

Reference: Description of 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)
and of Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953195

The usual caveat also applies. While I would never recommend to anyone that
they not install any security or service patch, when you install service
patches there can be unintended consequences. You might fix one thing only
to break something else. While I have not had any problems on my test
partition there have been other people who have posted about problems
opening Pub 2007 files after installing the Office 2007 SP2.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953195
also lists some of the known issues along with some of the things this patch
fixes in Office 2007 applications.

If it were me, I would probably ungroup the navbars manually rather than
install the SP2 for the short term, and wait until MSFT debugs the Office
2007 SP2, rather than risk not being able to open pre-existing Publisher
files. I have not installed SP2 on my production machines, but to each their
own.

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If you have a follow up question or other questions about Publisher webs,
then please post in the web group and we will try to help you the
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...sher.webdesign
or
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US


DavidF


"Mat23sook" wrote in message
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I am having problem with the navigation bar on the bottom of my web page.
The links seem to be properly set up and work while working inside
publisher.
Once I preview as a web page or publish, the links no longer work. Any
thoughts? Thank you!




 




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