Converting web to regular .Pub

[Ed Burckhardt]

I have a newsletter that I created in MS Pub 2000 in
Windows 2000 Pro. I converted it to a web page in order to
display it on my website, now I need to use it as a
regular .Pub file in order to do a mail merge from my
Access 2000 DB and it won't let me. The "Open data source
is grayed out, regardless of what I try. I spent the last
3 hours trying to find a solution everywhere and went
through all 38 pages of this forum to no avail. Could
somebody help me please.

 

[Epona]

I have a newsletter that I created in MS Pub 2000 in
Windows 2000 Pro. I converted it to a web page in order to
display it on my website, now I need to use it as a
regular .Pub file in order to do a mail merge from my
Access 2000 DB and it won't let me. The "Open data source
is grayed out, regardless of what I try. I spent the last
3 hours trying to find a solution everywhere and went
through all 38 pages of this forum to no avail. Could
somebody help me please.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Pub to Web a one-way ticket if
you don't have the original file - I've never used it so I wouldn't really
know.

 

[Ed Burckhardt]

I found the solution! Create a blank newsletter and save
it with a different name, then copy and paste everything
from the original, once finished save all. The .pub will
show the "Open Data Source". Hope this helps somebody
else.

 

[Ed Burckhardt]

Yes Epona, it's definitely a one way ticket! But luckily I
found the work around, which I already posted. Thanks
anyway.