Re-installing Publisher from storage unit

[Marysue]

My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Marysue]

Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to me.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Marysue, There is a trial download of Publisher 2007. That may help until you
can find your 2003 disks.
http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/product.aspx?family=publisher&culture=en-US

 

[JoAnn Paules]

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your CDs
away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up and ready
to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an unmarked box before
you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Mary Sauer]

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your CDs
away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up and ready
to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an unmarked box before
you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to me.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

It's pretty much one of "Hindsight is 20/20" kind of things. (Life lessons
can be a bugger.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your
CDs away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up
and ready to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an
unmarked box before you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs
wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on
the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for
your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous
major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve
it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly
material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to
me.

:

You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I
just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my
storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed
somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[Marysue]

No, I travel too much, Ms Paules. By air in small planes. The chances of
losing ones' discs are pretty much guaranteed. My car at the hotel was broken
into. Your luggage gets stolen. Hindsight won't help me in any of these
events.

Ms. Sauer, thank you for your suggestiong of the free Pub 2007 trail. Alas,
the free trial of Pub 2007 is only available in the USA. HP was only too
willing to help me regain access to my little printer. But rich Microsoft
with more money than God is not.

Gives one pause to consider saving for a MAC, doesn't it? They hardly ever
crash!

Sue

It's pretty much one of "Hindsight is 20/20" kind of things. (Life lessons
can be a bugger.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your
CDs away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up
and ready to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an
unmarked box before you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs
wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on
the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for
your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous
major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve
it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly
material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to
me.

:

You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I
just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my
storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed
somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[Mary Sauer]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="mac+crashes"&btnG=Search

22,300 hits for "Mac Crashes"...

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

No, I travel too much, Ms Paules. By air in small planes. The chances of
losing ones' discs are pretty much guaranteed. My car at the hotel was broken
into. Your luggage gets stolen. Hindsight won't help me in any of these
events.

Ms. Sauer, thank you for your suggestiong of the free Pub 2007 trail. Alas,
the free trial of Pub 2007 is only available in the USA. HP was only too
willing to help me regain access to my little printer. But rich Microsoft
with more money than God is not.

Gives one pause to consider saving for a MAC, doesn't it? They hardly ever
crash!

Sue

It's pretty much one of "Hindsight is 20/20" kind of things. (Life lessons
can be a bugger.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your
CDs away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up
and ready to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an
unmarked box before you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs
wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on
the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for
your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous
major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve
it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly
material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to
me.

:

You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I
just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my
storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed
somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Try "fibbing" to the computer and tell it you are in the US. I don't know
what information it asks for when downloading the trial but as long as you
don't need Publisher in a different language (I assume your copy is in some
flavor of English), you should be able to download it. I'm not 100% positive
it will work but I believe it will. It's worth trying.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

No, I travel too much, Ms Paules. By air in small planes. The chances of
losing ones' discs are pretty much guaranteed. My car at the hotel was
broken
into. Your luggage gets stolen. Hindsight won't help me in any of these
events.

Ms. Sauer, thank you for your suggestiong of the free Pub 2007 trail.
Alas,
the free trial of Pub 2007 is only available in the USA. HP was only too
willing to help me regain access to my little printer. But rich Microsoft
with more money than God is not.

Gives one pause to consider saving for a MAC, doesn't it? They hardly
ever
crash!

Sue

It's pretty much one of "Hindsight is 20/20" kind of things. (Life
lessons
can be a bugger.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing
your
CDs away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up
and ready to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an
unmarked box before you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs
wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on
the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for
your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a
ridiciulous
major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve
it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly
material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money
to
me.

:

You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I
just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my
storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed
somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[Mike Koewler]

Mary,

Not helpful, but deserved. The OP is suggesting something akin to saying
you lost your car keys but the car is yours, the manufacturer should
have foreseen this happening and devised a method where the car can be
started by waving a driver's license in front of it.

Not to mention, some things don't make a lot of sense. She has her data
files back-up (I presume from her post) but then she talks about
finishing a project in Word??? Unless it is a very simple project, or
she had hundreds of unmarked boxes that contains the program CD, it
would normally be much faster to locate the CD. Nor did she ask if
anyone could print the file for her to give to her clients who
apparently need it yesterday.

Maybe it's reading all those "my dog chewed up my CD and I can't install
Pub after my computer crashed" posts that makes me wonder if there
really is a CD hidden in a box, packed away for the movers - A box that
isn't labeled.

Mike

 

[Mike Koewler]

The chances of losing ones' discs are pretty much guaranteed. <<

First it was your CDs are packed for the movers, now they may have been
lost or stolen? For the record, I haven't lost my CDs, and they go back
eight years or more. Thrown some away - yep. Didn't see any reason to
keep that install CD for that Canon scanner I bought back in '98. but
then I seldom carry the installation CDs on me when I'm flying in a
small plane, or large one for that matter. Come to think of it, I
usually leave them close to my computer or in a desk where I can get to
them if I need to.
printer. <<

HP sells printers, not drivers. You reckon that if misplaced your
printer, they would give you a new one?

FWIW, the server you are posting from is showing up as being in the
Pacific (USA) time zone.

Mike

No, I travel too much, Ms Paules. By air in small planes. The chances of
losing ones' discs are pretty much guaranteed. My car at the hotel was broken
into. Your luggage gets stolen. Hindsight won't help me in any of these
events.

Ms. Sauer, thank you for your suggestiong of the free Pub 2007 trail. Alas,
the free trial of Pub 2007 is only available in the USA. HP was only too
willing to help me regain access to my little printer. But rich Microsoft
with more money than God is not.

Gives one pause to consider saving for a MAC, doesn't it? They hardly ever
crash!

Sue

:

It's pretty much one of "Hindsight is 20/20" kind of things. (Life lessons
can be a bugger.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

And this is helpful how???

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com


No, but most people do keep their computer CDs handy - as in near the
computer - just in case they need to reinstall or whatever. Packing your
CDs away in an unmarked location before you have the computer boxed up
and ready to move is like packing your clean unmentionables in an
unmarked box before you move.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375



Well, no one goes around carrying all their program instalation CDs
wherever
they go, for Pete's sake! There should be some temporary solution on
the MS
site--like a way of opening your MS Pub newsletters to finish your
project--or at least be able to print what you've got done of it for
your
customers and maybe dry to do the rest on Word. This is a ridiciulous
major
inconvenience and if Microsoft can't solve it -- or refuses to solve
it--then
it deserves to tank and let someone else with more user-friendly
material and
reasonable customer service take over!

I paid a lot of money for MS Publisher 2003--at least, a lot of money to
me.

:


You can't without the CD. I'd suggest you start peeking in boxes - I
just
hope you have them labeled to narrow down your choices.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375




My system crashed big time. I need to reinstall Publisher from my
storage
unit as my CD is missing (I'm moving, so it's probably packed
somewhere).
It's my favourite program! How do I do that?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

FWIW, the server you are posting from is showing up as being in the
Pacific (USA) time zone.

WTF does that have to do with anything??

 

[Mike Koewler]

Well, at least I understand your user name. Go back and read the posts.

Mike

 

[Mary Sauer]

Mike, As far as I was concerned the thread was over. The poster seemed to want a
solution to opening her Publisher documents. I gave her one. JoAnn decided she
needed the last word which I found not helpful.
I am not going to argue the merits of the poster motivations. I took the query
at face value. She needed help and I gave her my best advice. It was only after
JoAnn's post the other information emerged. I don't care about moving boxes and
lost CD's.

 

[Marysue]

Oh for God's sake, Mike! Don't call people liars without any proof. Not nice!
I do have a Word (MS Office 2003) and a Publisher 2003. Works, too, as I
love that for general letter writing. Bought 'em all when I bought my
Toshiba, which had only bare bones Windows pre-installed. I cut and paste
letters into Word to send it out in an attachment. Most people have MS Word,
but not Works. I also have a pdf program that allows me to turn my Publisher
newsletters into a pdf for sending my e-mail.

And I did back up all the original CDs on my storage unit which I brought
with me. However, when I spilt my tea on my laptop, my computer went wonky
and started cannablizing itself. For some reason, the programs on the
storage unit backups got corrupted or couldn't be accessed--or maybe they
were never copied right in the first place:*(. I couldn't get them to
install back into my computer. I wound up going to a computer doctor for a
very expensive fix and the guy said he'd got my files back. I saw the files
listed under documents and was elated. He lied about everything else,
though. He couldn't get my programs out my storage unit, either, so he
installed his old 2002 Word and old Works program into my laptop and they are
far inferior to 2003. He never even told me he did this, either, and he
didn't tell me Publisher was missing altogether, although not the
newsletters. I found out when I reached my next port of all and I couldn't
open them up. I am just livid! I've had to rebuild that newsletter using
2002 Word. All I wanted to do was re-open the project I'd already done
before I left--a newsletter I spent weeks on! But, of course, it wouldn't
open up, as Publisher had disappeared. I tried one of the tricks listed
here, lie about my country, to download the Publisher 2007 trial version
(which looks like it would be pretty good), but the servers where I am now
are not very weak and all of them have too many time-outs or dropped
connections to download anything really big, as that download is. Plus,
they've had so many power outages here, I'm thinking about buying a little
portable generator.
When I go back through the town where that so-called computer expert is, I'm
getting my money back and report him to the Better Busines Bureau!
I guess I'll just have to wait until I get home next month to re-install my
programs.
I may have to buy a new laptop pretty soon, as I am still experiencing a lot
of screen freezes and so forth. The moral of this story is: if you're going
to drink tea while you're on your computer, have it in a travel mug.

By the way, if you lose your car keys, the manufacter will send the keys or
the design to the car dealership within a few days. My car is unfortunately
all too easy to break into. That's how my backup CDs got gone--a thief tried
to steal my car and took my CDs instead. Pain in the neck. Also, if your
car gets broken into in Calgary, don't expect the police to do anything at
all about it! Only the police in Victoria can compare for such utter
uselessness in this regard.

Yes, I've had quite a lot of unpleasant things happen over the last while.

Marysue

 

[Jeffrey T Valerie]

Hello Marysue

Am Jeffrey

Did you ever find out how to get your publisher to print, as I dont
understan how I can print in word but not in publisher, please direct me.

I do not know if you are given my email address but here it is email:
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mary Sauer]

Troubleshoot printing publications on a desktop printer
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HP051531551033.aspx