30-page newsletter suddenly changed!?

[Tranmere36]

Am using Publisher 2003, have done many, many newsletters but never
experienced this b4. Changed font from a previously used advt from earlier NL
to another font, changed leading from 1.14 to 1 - and now ALL 30 pages have
changed to franklin gothic demi, 1.14 spacing!
Any suggestions, anyone, please as to how to return publication back to what
it was.
Have the horrible thought I am going to have to redo 3 days work of
fonting/formatting/etc.

Cheers
Tranmere36

 

[Mary Sauer]

Create a font scheme to match what you had before. Apply to a text box, select
the box, double-click the Painter tool, scroll through your 30 pages via the
sort tabs touch each text box.

 

[Tranmere36]

Many thanks for your reply Mary.
Regretably, no 2 pages are alike. Every (believe it or not, and yes, this is
a NL) page has different font scheme/sizing/line spacing etc., plus a myriad
of advts.
Was too far along to use "Undo" b4 I noticed, though don't know if that
would have helped.
The insanity continues however, have just realized also all the pointing has
changed eg: 2 pt space between a para is now 1.8, 10 pt font is now 9.1, etc.
Could I accidently have hit some keyboard "shortcut" to have changed entire
document? Never experienced this b4 ever.
(Some advts plus front page masthead I can cut & paste from previous NL's,
the rest though I think I have to go back to square one and reformat from
scratch.)

Cheers

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you use the same newsletter over and over? Do you have a previous version you
can work with? Are the fonts you are using standard? Is your printer driver
current? Change the printer setup to a different printer. Publisher has generic
drivers you can load.

There is no button you would have inadvertently clicked that would have caused
the behavior you are experiencing. You have corruption going on. You may have
some images that aren't playing well.

Open the Design Checker, see if you can determine if one of your pictures are
damaged. Put each picture one by one into the Design Gallery so they will be
available to put back into the publication, then delete the picture from the
publication. This may help if an image is causing the problem.

How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198256

 

[Tranmere36]

Pretty much yes, yes and yes. Have been doing this particular NL for about 5
years now, and do each one exactly the same (boring way), without any radical
changes or differences.
Pictures all seem fine.
The idea of corruption scares me and I don't know if I want to dwell on it
to much.
I bit the bullet and started from scratch, everything seems OK at this point.
It was almost like I'd accessed the AA (Styles & Formatting Bar) and done an
overall style change - which I hadn't.
I'll chalk this one up to the great unknown and hope it doesn't happen again.
Many, many thanks Mary for your time, assistance and advice.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Pretty much yes, yes and yes. Have been doing this particular NL for about 5
years now, and do each one exactly the same (boring way), without any radical
changes or differences.

Does "the same way" involve taking last month's newsletter and adding
this month's content? That runs a greater risk of document corruption.

I bit the bullet and started from scratch, everything seems OK at this point.
It was almost like I'd accessed the AA (Styles & Formatting Bar) and done an
overall style change - which I hadn't.

Are you using text styles to control the formatting in your publication?
If not, you should be.

Create an empty newsletter laid out as you normally have it but with no
text in the text boxes, create styles sufficient to cover each class of
text you need (one or two for headings, one for body text, etc.) and
apply them to the places where they should be used, then save as a
template. Then create each fresh newsletter based on the template.
Problems like the one you experienced should be easier to deal with
(modify a couple of styles rather than reformat the entire publication
manually) and the risk of document corruption should be lower.

 

[Tranmere36]

NL's are seasonal, eg for a New Year NL I would cut/paste stuff from last
year's NL as well as cut/paste from the most recent issue. So you are spot-on
when asking if I do them "the same way".

Had never thought of Text Styles.

Many thanks for your input and advice.