Nav Bar no longer works in the new IE 8

[Ed]

Group;

I don't know if any of you know that the navigation bar that MS Publisher
uses doesn't work with the new IE 8 browser. My website is inoperable at the
moment when using this browser. What can I do to possibly fix the navigation
bar? Or is my only alternative to replace it with some other 3rd party
navigation bar?

I really can't believe that Microsoft didn't test to make sure their own web
creating programs work with their new browser.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Ed

 

[Ed]

Thanks Spike.
I tested it with the webpage preview and it looks like that fixed it.
So IE8 doesn't like MS Publisher groups.
Thanks again for the great advise.

 

[Spike]

Ed

You are welcome and thanks for posting back that you were successful

Spike

 

[AF]

Spike -- just used your fix and it worked perfectly. Thank you for taking
the time to figure it out and post it.... Anne

 

[Spike]

Anne

You are welcome. I can't take the credit for figuring it out. It was a
group effort on this forum.

Happy that you are successful

Spike

 

[Tom Snyder]

Thank you Spike, fixed my problem too.

Create a web site with nav bars etc.
Saved web site as "My web site.pub"
With the pub page open
Ctrl a (selects all)
This insures that all groups are ungrouped
This must be done on ALL pages individually
Re-Saved using Save As "My web site NBUG.pub"
I take the step to "Save As" so that when I shut down publisher and I get a
prompt to save my changes I do NOT overwrite the master file "My web
site.pub" accidentally.
Publish to the web
FTP to the server
Web site works using IE 8

If a change, update is required or a page is added
Open with "My web site.pub"
Make changes
Follow the above suggestions
BTW NBUG = "Nav Bars Un Grouped"


Spike

 

[Spike]

GREAT

I like posts that say that something is fixed

Thanks for the reply

Spike

 

[Ed]

Spike;

I finally fully tested it and they work; but the nav bar button is not fully
selectable due to the text not having a hyperlink in it. So when you hover
over the nav bar button where the text is, it will not display as a pointing
hand.

I sure hope Microsoft fixes this problem so i can use the MS Publisher group
feature again.

Ed

 

[DavidF]

Ed,

If I could jump in here, I think I can explain what you are seeing.

When you ungroup a Publisher navbar and look closely at each navbar
'button', you will see that it is made up of a text box and usually an image
box plus a 'hotspot' hyperlink box all layered and previously grouped
together. If you mouseover all the buttons of the navbar on the home page
each will be active except for the home page button. That is because you are
on the home page, and thus there is no 'hotspot' hyperlink box. Go to the
second page and the home page button will be 'hot', but the button for the
second page will not. The 'visited' page throughout your site will not have
a 'hotspot' hyperlink box on the corresponding button for that page. Note
also that with some of the navbar designs the 'visited' page button will
also have a different image box or different colored text box to show that
you are on that page. This is all by design as you don't need a hot link to
a page that you are on, and it is handy to be able to look at the navbar and
see a different 'look' to one of the buttons so you can tell which page you
are on.

The way Publisher constructs the navbar buttons can be handy if at some
future time you want to add a page but not rebuild the navbar wizard. You
can easily construct a navbar button for the new page using the different
components from the other buttons and just add it to the existing group of
buttons. The 'hotspot' hyperlink control is one of the icons in the column
of icons on the far left of your Publisher work page.

DavidF

 

[Ed]

You can test out my website and hover over the text in the nav bar button to
see what I'm trying to explain. The selectable area which has the hyperlink
in it is the button itself not the text (after ungrouping bar).

BTW David thanks for the reply.

http://precisiondraftingllc.com

 

[DavidF]

I see what you mean. You can point at any part of the button except the text
and it will work.

There is a possible PIA fix. I suspect that the hotspot hyperlink box is
layered below the text box, and on top of the image box for each button.
After opening your file in Publisher, very carefully click exactly on the
text. This will highlight the top design element. Hold down the your left
mouse button and drag that box off the button into the scratch area. Is that
box the text box, or is the box an empty, hash marked border box which would
be your hotspot box? Click on the button again, and drag the next element
off into the scratch area. Does that leave just the image box? Once you
determine in what order the different components of the button are layered
close your publication without saving the changes. I am going to assume that
your text box is on top with the hotspot box next and the image last.

Open the publication again. Zoom your page to 150%. Now look closely at the
bottom navbar button. If it is as I see on my computer the hash marked
hotspot box extends out from both sides of the button. This time carefully
click on that hash marked hotspot box to select it and not the text box, go
to Arrange > Order > Bring to the front. Do a web page preview and mouseover
the button. Now the whole button should be hot. Note that there is a
keyboard shortcut for 'bring to front': Alt + F6. So, one by one select the
hotspot box of each button and Alt + F6 or Arrange > Bring to front. Now
your navbar should be good to go. But of course this will need to be done on
each page, and thus the PIA fix.

Yeah, it will be great when MSFT comes out with the permanent fix for this
grouping issue with IE8, but at least this is a solution for you in the
short term.

DavidF