Help David, I have 2003

[John Bowen]

I just purchased two new computers and switched from Publisher 2002 to 2003
on the new machines. The grandkids got my old machines. When I went to
publish my monthly newsletters I am faced with PNG photos, VML language, XLS
etc. I was very happy with 2002 because I had the fix on to publish in HTML
and I understood and produced pretty good copy.

Now my readers are getting VML and their older out of date versions of MSIE
is causing them grief and the pictures load slowly because of size, the text
overlays the edges etc. I see the finished product fine because I have
broadband and the latest version of MSIE. But my readers have dialups and
MSIE 5. Help... I need the same fix that was available for Publisher 2002
that the June 21, 2001 update installed. I want to produce JPG and HTM
files.

I still have diskette copies of Publisher 2002 but I doubt Microsoft would
allow me license transfer license number 4 and 5 to my new computers. I
don't want to have to buy 2002 again... even if I could.

I do like working with 2003. A lot of things are improved.

John Bowen

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

I talked about this during the beta -
http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub11.htm
In this version what you see is what you get. There is no other way.
They would not budge on this during the beta and have no plans to return to
traditional html.
But I haven't given up in trying to convince them otherwise.
I am compiling user feedback to present to them, of course I'm adding yours.
As far as installing 2002 again, first just try it, it's my understanding
that they hold onto activation info for a limited time, second if it does
complain then just call the activation line and tell them what you want.

--
David Bartosik - MS MVP
for Publisher help:
www.davidbartosik.com
enter to win Pub 2003:
www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx