Errrr what happened to your backup file? You do have one, don't you!!!
I seriously hope the information below will help you in your dilema.
Q198256 - PUB2000: How to Troubleshoot a Damaged Publication
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/2/56.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0
Check MS KB Q191131
Unfortunately the file is corrupt for some strange reason. It is not a
common problem and certainly not peculiar to Publisher, but these type of
complex file types like Publisher is are slightly more prone.
If you do a search on your hard drive for a *.tmp and you can ascertain by
the name it is your Publisher temporary file, rename name it with a *.PUB
extension. 99% of the time this will work. Once you open it, immediately
save it with SAVE AS and another name and delete the file you just opened,
as it does not have full information in it. When a Publisher file does go
corrupt the *.tmp file always remains, so you should be able to find it.
You may also find that it is only one particular page that is causing the
corruption, and then you can open another instance of Publisher and copy and
paste from the corrupt file, less the corrupt page to a new file in the
other open copy of Publisher. You can have as many copies of Publisher open
as your memory will allow. If you know that say page 6 is the corrupt page,
when you get to page 5 and want to move forward, use the menu VIEW and
select the option GO TO PAGE and put in page 7. Do not use the arrow keys on
the status line to move forward.
What causes these files to go corrupt, is things like a power failure when
there is part of the file in the cache, computer switched off without being
shut down correctly, or a fairly major power surge.
When ever I leave Publisher open and leave my computer un-attended, I always
just go menu FILE then CLOSE and open it again when I come back to use it.
Another known problem is when WordArt causes corruption, besides being the
above, it can also be caused by a sub-standard True Type (often shareware or
freeware) font that does not conform totally to the standard, of which there
are 1,000s. QUALITY fonts are essential for trouble free Windows. People do
not realise the importance of this.
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