Wrong paper format from FILE->NEW->PUBLISHER DOCUMENT

[Farkyss]

Friend of mine has a problem with Publisher 2003 (part of the Office XP
package)

The package was fully installed with A4 British English being selected as
the language of choice, on a Windows XP Home SP2 system in which British/UK
settings are set up across the board.

All of the Office programs are set up to use A4 paper format.
If you load Publisher and create a new document it will have A4 paper format
If you click NEW OFFICE DOCUMENT from the start menu, choose Publisher, it
will create a new document with A4 paper format

If you Dbl-click My Computer, go to FILE->NEW->PUBLISHER DOCUMENT it will
create a new publisher document using the US Letter paper format.

How can this be rectified to use A4 also?

 

[Ed Bennett]

If you Dbl-click My Computer, go to FILE->NEW->PUBLISHER DOCUMENT it
will create a new publisher document using the US Letter paper format.

This is because Publisher saves printer information within the document, and
because the Americans are so insular )

The File > New > Publisher Document takes its source (I believe, correct me
if I'm wrong) from c:\windows\shellnew\mspub.pub. I just tested this file
on my (UK setup) machine, and it's set to US settings. If you rename this
file to .old, and create a new one using your standard Publisher settings,
then you should (might) get it working.

I'll run further tests and get back to you in the morning, hopefully.