From the article: "Common Sense Computing 101 aka "Why in the world would
you lose your publisher file?":
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/19/81461.aspx
There are some great tips about how to back up files, and this part about
how to rebuild your site if you lost the Publisher file, and you are using
Pub 2002 or 2003:
"As of version 2002, Publisher will open a htm/html file. Which actually,
technically, isn't very useful since Publisher is not an html editor, nor a
web design tool (i.e. FrontPage). However it's handy in this situation. The
kicker is, it's only going to open one at a time.
Now is when your skills with the Ctrl + C (copy) and Ctrl + V (paste) keys
comes into play.
How this works is that you open the index.htm (home page) file in Publisher
(2002 or later) and then go to File, Save as, and save it as a .pub file.
That gives you the new web publication file.
Insert new blank pages into the publication for how ever many web pages you
have. Then there next to your publication you use a second instance of
Publisher to open the next htm file. You copy everything on the page (either
group, copy, or select all, or lasso, copy - whatever method you prefer) and
you go over to the appropriate page in the new publication file and you do a
paste. There you go. You repeat for each web page. "
DavidF
