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Scrambled documents
I have the opposite problem from many posts here. I'm using Publisher 2002
(Office XP) with Windows XP to publish a 40 page A5 newsletter. Instead of getting blank boxes for graphics, it seems like all of the text boxes, graphics, and anything else gets dumped onto the opening screen in some haphazard manner. Then the font selection box opens up. If I go ahead to open the document it is completely uneditable and unreadable because it looks like all the elements of the document are piled up on the screen like a pile of dirty laundry. The problem is intermittent...sometimes the document opens, more often it does not. I have tried the video accelerator trick and have tried changing default printers, to no avail, I'm using Kaspersky antivirus, . Any clues, anyone? What else do I need to communicate? Thanks for any help you can give. |
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Scrambled documents
Is this happening to all publications? If not, you may have an image that is
causing some corruption in this particular document. How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198256/en-us -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Whitestones" wrote in message news I have the opposite problem from many posts here. I'm using Publisher 2002 (Office XP) with Windows XP to publish a 40 page A5 newsletter. Instead of getting blank boxes for graphics, it seems like all of the text boxes, graphics, and anything else gets dumped onto the opening screen in some haphazard manner. Then the font selection box opens up. If I go ahead to open the document it is completely uneditable and unreadable because it looks like all the elements of the document are piled up on the screen like a pile of dirty laundry. The problem is intermittent...sometimes the document opens, more often it does not. I have tried the video accelerator trick and have tried changing default printers, to no avail, I'm using Kaspersky antivirus, . Any clues, anyone? What else do I need to communicate? Thanks for any help you can give. |
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Scrambled documents
Thanks Mary;
You're an angel, and from the number of helpful hints I've picked up reading through this area have been for some time now. We recently changed computers and files from the old computer were scrambled in the new computer. I stumbled on a solution of renaming the file using "save as". Publications with a new name seem to open with no problem. What you or someone else said about Publisher saving printer data and other information in the file sparked the idea. I suspect the old computer information was causing the files to scramble but saving it again in the new computer replaces the information and allows the file to open. Thanks again for your good help. The damaged file info should be useful in the future. "Mary Sauer" wrote: Is this happening to all publications? If not, you may have an image that is causing some corruption in this particular document. How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198256/en-us -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Whitestones" wrote in message news I have the opposite problem from many posts here. I'm using Publisher 2002 (Office XP) with Windows XP to publish a 40 page A5 newsletter. Instead of getting blank boxes for graphics, it seems like all of the text boxes, graphics, and anything else gets dumped onto the opening screen in some haphazard manner. Then the font selection box opens up. If I go ahead to open the document it is completely uneditable and unreadable because it looks like all the elements of the document are piled up on the screen like a pile of dirty laundry. The problem is intermittent...sometimes the document opens, more often it does not. I have tried the video accelerator trick and have tried changing default printers, to no avail, I'm using Kaspersky antivirus, . Any clues, anyone? What else do I need to communicate? Thanks for any help you can give. |
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