Publisher Can Not Open Files From A Different Version

[merle]

Publisher Can Not Open Files From A Different Version: Is
there anyway to get around this?

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi merle ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Publisher Can Not Open Files From A Different Version: Is
|| there anyway to get around this?

Yes.

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Brian Kvalheim
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[Mike Koewler]

Don,
If you can read this in English, thank a vetern.

What's a vetern?

Mike

 

[Apelles]

What do you know? I just asked the same question because I didn't see this thread, somehow.

Apelles

 

[Apelles]

But the problem is when we create a file in the NEWEST version, it appears it can only be shared with computers also running the newest version. Given that the release is, what, a month old, we all have apparently a long wait until we can share files with many other people . .

Apelles

 

[Apelles]

Am now told that a newer version's file can be saved as an older version file, and THEN read by the older version

I'll try it and we shall see . .

Apelles

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

But the problem is when we create a file in the NEWEST version, it
appears it can only be shared with computers also running the newest
version. Given that the release is, what, a month old, we all have
apparently a long wait until we can share files with many other
people . . .

Publisher 2003 files can be opened in Publisher 2002 without having to do a
"Save as..." an older version.