Publisher 2003 to Publisher 2000

[PHorwood]

I have been sent two files in Pub 2003 which I have to print out. Is there a reader that I can use to enable me to open them in Pub 2000
Thanks

[VHG]

This may help

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/publisher/HA 102339061033.aspx

I dont use Publisher, but you may be able to get the person who sent them to you to save the files in Publisher 2000 format (or some other standard format) on their computer and send them again.

I assume you have tried opening them in Publisher 2000.

[Buenchico]

There's no such thing as a Microsft Publisher Viewer program, per se.

However, you can download a trial of the latest version of Publisher, to view your files. It will still function as a viewer even after the trial period ends.

Source:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA 102339061033.aspx

Chris

[Buenchico]

I see that VHG was posting while I was typing. It's amazing how often that (or vice versa) seems to happen around here!

[c1]

The exact same thing happened to me today. Sent a word 2007 doc to work address, didn't realise my home computer saves as .docx rather than .doc. Had to get it converted by the IT department.

I dont actually have a suggestion (VHG nad Chris have answered) apart from it's a bloody nighmare and I don't know why Microsoft don't make all the word doc'scompatible with one another:(

[ACtheTROLL]

vhg ans bu have already said it

c1 and ph
you never get forward compatibility - but almost always you get backwards

the problem is publisher more than any other of the office progs has developed almost every aspect of the prog

95 was just a pasteboard - because at the time anyone who did dtp used quark

then the market opened up ... and publisher had a lot of ground to make up ... so each version had better format and layout options - and backwards compatibility was harder to maintain

because of this saving backwards is less likely to give acceptable results than say word or excel
also if fancy fonts are used which are not on the other machine ... the whole thing falls apart

this is where PDFs come in
pdf is pretty much platform independent and embedding fonts makes the job easier

so the answer is always use PDF to send to other machines unless you are certain the other person has an exact clone of your system.

[VHG]

c1,

Anyone using an older version of Office can open 2007 formats (docx etc) by installing the Windows Office Compatibility Pack

http://tinyurl.com/3xr4tt

[VHG]

Microsoft changed all the formats in Office 2007 to make them more "open" (and to try to get them accepted as an industry standard).

The formats in older versions of Office were "closed" formats (secret to Microsoft) so it was difficult to share these files with other technologies like the web.

Office 2007 made the formats more "open" (more like HTML that is used on the web) which makes it easier to move Office files to other computers or into other technologies like web sites.

They also wanted to try to get their Office formats accepted as an industry standard (like HTML is an industry standard) as it would make their Office products the world wide standard (as if they arent already).

[PHorwood]

Thank you all for your help. Sorry about the delay, I have been away. And yes I did manage to do it. It was just a couple of forms, I wonder why they didn't use Word or something. Not many folk going on a woodwork course are likely to have an up to date version of Pub.