Can't open XP file in Windows

[gwen]

We have XP machines and Windows machines. A Publisher file
was created in XP and I am unable to open it in Windows.
The error message is "You cannot open a file from a
different version". I would appreciate any assistance on
this issue.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi gwen ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| We have XP machines and Windows machines. A Publisher file
|| was created in XP and I am unable to open it in Windows.
|| The error message is "You cannot open a file from a
|| different version". I would appreciate any assistance on
|| this issue.

You have a version mess up there in your post! Let's start over.

Which version of Windows are you running? Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows
98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows XP?

Which version of Publisher are you running? Publisher 1.0, Publisher 2.0,
Publisher for Windows 95, Publisher 97, Publisher 98, Publisher 2000,
Publisher 2002, Publisher 2003? And if you are running two different
versions, what are they?

Are you running Norton Antivirus?

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

It's as if they don't realize that there is a large section of
computer users who just use their systems enough to get that darned
nit-picky about these things. No one got Windows 3.11 confused with
Word 5.

But they did think that Windows Three Hundred And Eleven was better than
Windows Ninety-Five.

 

[Cerridwen]

You wouldn't want me to go off on my Windows Millenium Edition and
Windows 2000 or Windows XP and Office XP. I had to deal with clients
who didn't understand that ME was NOT 2000 or that Windows XP is NOT
Office XP, Pro or otherwise. ARGH!

It's as if they don't realize that there is a large section of
computer users who just use their systems enough to get that darned
nit-picky about these things. No one got Windows 3.11 confused with
Word 5.

Or, strangely enough, Office 95 with Windows 95, or Office 2000 with
Windows 2000. Windows 2003, being a server OS only, is (most probably) only
used by folk who know the difference!

I've seen a question like this in the Office Misc group. A bloke posted
asking if he could upgrade Windows XP Pro with the Office XP upgrade - or
did he have to purchase a new OS. Apart from the obvious not knowing the
difference between an OS and an app, it sounds to me as though he'd already
bought it and thought that the reason it wasn't installing (1608 error,
obviously) was because he had the wrong operating system! I'm afraid I
couldn't resist quoting the famous urban legend (you know the one) and that
Dilbert strip of his boss trying to 'reboot' his Etch-a-Sketch!

 

[Chris Schatte]

C
read the post, and the many re's,
The group there never gets as lively as this, maybe there is more sympathy?

 

[Cerridwen]

C
read the post, and the many re's,
The group there never gets as lively as this, maybe there is more
sympathy?

If you play with piranhas....

 

[Chris Schatte]

Yes, you will be eaten.
Luckily or mercifully, some sympathy is shown here, either by reading between the lines or by enjoying the interaction between those more knowledgable than myself and having an enjoyable time while working in the evenings, or days.....

 

[Cerridwen]

Yes, you will be eaten.
Luckily or mercifully, some sympathy is shown here, either by reading
between the lines or by enjoying the interaction between those more
knowledgable than myself and having an enjoyable time while working
in the evenings, or days.....

Christopher, may I introduce you to the king piranha? Chris, this is David,
David, Chris. Go easy on him now, won't you?

 

[Chris Schatte]

Yes, they are
I instruct (humbly) continuing ed classes the age range runs from 92 yrs to teens
BTW, the elderly person does not need much help!!!!!