Publisher 2003 vs 2000 on network

[LesaZ]

My coworkers are complaining that when our Public Relations person, who has
Publisher 2003, opens one of their Publisher 2000 files that is saved on a
shared drive, they can not open it afterwards. They claim she simply opened
it but did not save it. Is it possible that simply VIEWING a Publisher 2000
document in Publisher 2003 will change its format? If so, what can be done?

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't think by viewing the file it would change the format. Do you have Norton
installed? Might disable "script blocking" and Office plug-ins in Norton options.
I would suggest when your PR person views the file, she saves the file as 2000 just
to be on the safe side.

 

[LesaZ]

Thanks Mary. I don't recall if we have Norton on the system at work - I'm at
home right now. But I'm thinking no. // I'll be sure to mention the
suggestion of saving into Publisher 2000. // If it's not too complex to
describe, could you indicate what the issue is with the two Norton functions
you suggested turning off?

 

[Mike Bailey]

Probably a safer thing to do would be for them to get in the habbit of cpying
the file to their local drive befor opening it, I would not reccomend saving
a file in an newer version and then back saving it to an older version,
Publihser 2000 and Publisher 2003 handle objects and hyphnation differently
enough that text can reflow, frames can chnage as well as other issues. Most
of these are covered in the Publisher Prepress manual, but I'm not sure if
that manual is available to the general public.

 

[LesaZ]

Thanks Mike and Mary, I'll get in touch this week with the PR person and
we'll check your suggestions out. It's great to have access to help like
this.