MS Pub 2003 suddenly will not open older Pub files

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T Hinson

Suddenly, on 3 different computers MS Pub 2003 will no longer open publisher
files created in an older version. The error is "Publisher cannot open this
file. This file was saved from a previous version of Publisher. Publisher no
longer supports files that were saved in this version." I've tried on 3
different PC's on different networks and get the same. Even files that I had
previously been able to open suddenly won't open. With very different
networks my thought was something had changed on the originators PC but going
back and retrieving previously saved files they had sent that I could open
before makes no sense. The originator is running Publisher 2000. Everything I
read seems to indicate backwards compatibility and the user is still running
an old version so what's changed?
 
T

T Hinson

Nothing has changed. In fact I brought the files to work today and tried
opening them on MS Publisher 2003 on XP and another VISTA machine running
Publisher 2007 and I get the same errors.

My home PC won't open them and oddly enough on no PC (home, work, church)
can I open files that I had previously opened before UNLESS they were saved
specifically in Publsiher 2003 format. So it can't be virus or printer since
all of those PC's are completely different, running different networks, virus
protection and printers.

I read the MS Bulletin and added the PromptForBadFiles registry entry but
that didn't change anything and the other MS bulletins point to security
updates but those are from 2006. Doesn't seem possible that would have any
impact.

The person that creates these files does run an older version of Publisher
(2000 I think) but that does not explain why now 4 PC's with completely
different configs will not open the files nor open any of the old files. Of
course they have no problem opening them.
 

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