IE8 only displays part of the content on a webpage.

[Hippy43]

I recently built a website using M$ Publisher. I thought that everything was
working great, I DO use FireFox instead of IE8. When I double checked the
page in IE8, only the main index.htm shows up and my page selection bar is
totally gone! I did try other suggestions that I found here as well as
checking security, privacy, and other settings. Nothing helped. I finally
uninstalled IE8, going back to IE7, and the page loads correctly.
The website is http://LawtonABATE.webs.com
I have tried this page on 4 VERY different PC's, all with IE8 and they all
had the same issue so I know it's not an OS or PC issue.

I posted this previously on the IE8 support page and they refered me here.
Their suggestion was http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969705 which basically
tells me to buy publisher 200?. Huh?

Thanks in advance,
Hippy

 

[DavidF]

There is a compatibility issue with IE8 and Publisher 2003 and 2007. 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 for Pub
2007.

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:

After making and saving any changes to your Pub file, and prior to uploading
new web files, 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 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 or section to
your site, you can leave the navbar ungrouped and skip the step of saving a
copy.

Publisher 2007 can be fixed manually or 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

Some users have found SP2 breaks Publisher, and makes it impossible to open
existing Pub files...you know, break one thing to fix another, so there is a
hotfix for that:

Description of the Publisher 2007 hotfix package (Publisher.msp): June 30,
2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972566/

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

What version of Publisher are you using?

DavidF

 

[Hippy43]

Thanks David, I will try this "ungrouping " fix.
The page looks great in both FireFox and IE7..

BTW,,, It was built with publisher 2003

Hippy

 

[Hippy43]

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

BTW, I used publisher 2003 to build the page.

Hippy

 

[Hippy43]

Office 2003 / Publisher 2003

What version of Publisher are you using?

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

So, use the instructions for ungrouping all the design elements on each page
as per my long boilerplate answer about IE8 compatibilities. I can tell from
looking at your site that you have not done that. The Office 2007 SP3 patch
is not going to fix the problem with Publisher 2003.

You should also be producing your web pages in a different way. The source
code tells me that you are doing a File > Save as a web page. Instead do a
File > Publish to the Web and this will produce filtered code that is less
bloated and faster loading.

DavidF