Opening with a lower version of publisher

[Tara]

I create a lot of Publisher documents and give them to
other people in my company. I am running Publisher 2002,
and a lot of them are still running 2000 and cannot open
my document.

Two questions--one, do I have to save it as a lower
version in order for them to open it?

or...

is there an update to publisher that they can download in
order to view the 2002 documents?

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Tara

Two questions--one, do I have to save it as a lower
version in order for them to open it?

File > Save As... > Files of Type > Publisher 2000. A lot of quality is
lost.

is there an update to publisher that they can download in
order to view the 2002 documents?

No.

You might thinking about using PDF as an alternative if the files don't
require editing.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Tara ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| I create a lot of Publisher documents and give them to
|| other people in my company. I am running Publisher 2002,
|| and a lot of them are still running 2000 and cannot open
|| my document.
||
|| Two questions--one, do I have to save it as a lower
|| version in order for them to open it?
||
|| or...
||
|| is there an update to publisher that they can download in
|| order to view the 2002 documents?

Yes, you must go to File > Save As > File Type and change to Publisher 2000
for the save as file type before sending. No other options besides having
them upgrade.

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
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