opening files in different version of Publisher

[Working Waterfront]

Our office computer runs on XP and has Publisher 2002. My boss has XP on his
home computer and Publisher 2000. When he tries to work on a document from
work on his home computer, it won't open. He uses the "save as" function and
saves the document as a Publisher 98 file. Is there some way around this
problem?

 

[Mary Sauer]

If your boss has Norton, have him disable "script blocking." If that doesn't do it
have him disable "Office Plug-ins" in Norton options.

 

[Working Waterfront]

Mary,

Thank you for the info. I'm not at work, but will try these out on Monday.
He does have Norton, so this ought to help.

Thanks again,
Working Waterfront

 

[honeybeevic]

Mary,
did this work for you? I am having the same problem with Publisher, except I
am on a deadline right now and this problem has just hit me over the head -no
time! Do I have to save the docs as Pub98 files before I can open them in
Pub2000 even with the Norton stuff disabled?
Thanks!
~Victoria

 

[honeybeevic]

Mary,
did this work for you? I am having the same problem with Publisher, except I
am on a deadline right now and this problem has just hit me over the head -no
time! Do I have to save the docs as Pub98 files before I can open them in
Pub2000 even with the Norton stuff disabled?
Thanks!
~Victoria

 

[Mary Sauer]

You should be able to open a 2000 file with 2000, there would be no reason to save as
98. Try this, right-click the file, properties, opens with... change, select
Publisher 2000.
Are you certain the files are 2000?

 

[rickr7785]

Our office computer runs on XP and has Publisher 2002. My boss has XP on his
home computer and Publisher 2000. When he tries to work on a document from
work on his home computer, it won't open. He uses the "save as" function and
saves the document as a Publisher 98 file. Is there some way around this
problem?