Publisher Open File Location Problem

[bxb7668]

When one of my users starts Publisher 2003 and clicks Open, the first
screen that she sees is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11.
She has gone into Tools | Options and onto the General tab as set the
File Locations for both Publications and Pictures to the shared S:\
drive, but she continue to get the OFFICE11 folder. Other people
using the same PC do not show this behavior. The do see the S:\
drive.

Where is the per-user settings file for Publisher 2003? Is it:

C:\Documents and Settings\karen\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Publis11.pip

Or

C:\Documents and Settings\karen\Application
Data\Microsoft\Publisher\pubcmd.dat

Would deleting one or the other or both and allowing Publisher to
recreate them solve the problem?

Brian Bygland

 

[Mary Sauer]

This article may help
How to customize the My Places bar in both the Open and the Save As dialog boxes in
Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214

Open Publisher, file, open, browse to a .pub file and highlight it, in the dialogue
box, click tools, click "Map Network Drive." Not sure this is what you are looking
for...

 

[bxb7668]

Thank you Mary. That helps and has been done. The problem is that
we've change the default for Publisher to open on the S: drive but
Publisher isn't following the default settings. Having the S: drive on
My Places makes it faster to get where we want to until this is fixed.

Brian Bygland

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Can you attempt to do a detect and repair of Publisher (Help > Detect and
Repair).

Also, what happens if you make sure your default folder is set properly
under the Tools > Options and then browse to a file on the S drive, then be
sure to save the file again to the S drive, does the "open" stick to the S
drive?

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

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[bxb7668]

I tried the detect and repair for Publisher, but that didn't help. I
asked MS tech support and received this registry change that did fix
the problem:

Based on my experience and research, the default path for publication
files
and picture files are stored in registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Doc_Path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Picture_pat
h
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Default_Pat
h

I would suggest your change the file location in the registry to
resolve it:

1. Click Start - Run, type REGEDIT, and then click OK.

2. Locate and select the following keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher

3. Double click Doc_Path on the right pane, type S:\ in the Value Data
text box, and then click OK.

4. Double click Default_Path on the right pane, type S:\ in the Value
Data text box, and then click OK.

If you want to change the picture's path, you can also change the path
in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Picture_pat
h.

The problem was that the Default_Path key pointed to an invalid
folder. Once it was set correctly, it started working correctly.

Brian Bygland

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Thanks for following up with us. This will indeed benefit others.

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

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks for following up with us. This will indeed benefit others.

Score one for the DirectAccess support guys