Naming files in Publisher 2003

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I have an existing site made with Publisher 2000 that has worked great for
me. I've recently upgraded to v.2003 and as I'm upgrading parts of my site
it's causing me problems. Specifically with the way v.2003 names the
resulting htm files. Thus I have 2 questions that I haven't been able to
find clear answers on in your forum:

1 - in 2003, I can name my files what I want, but Publisher sticks "index_"
on the beginning of each file name. Is there a way for me to fix it so if I
want to name a page "thankyou" that the resulting page will be "thankyou.htm"
and not "index_thankyou.htm"?

2 - Is there not a way to have the resulting file name be html instead of
htm? If I rename the file extension on my server will the page still
function?

Thanks,
Amy Smithson

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

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I have an existing site made with Publisher 2000 that has worked great for
me. I've recently upgraded to v.2003 and as I'm upgrading parts of my
site
it's causing me problems. Specifically with the way v.2003 names the
resulting htm files. Thus I have 2 questions that I haven't been able to
find clear answers on in your forum:

1 - in 2003, I can name my files what I want, but Publisher sticks
"index_"
on the beginning of each file name. Is there a way for me to fix it so if
I
want to name a page "thankyou" that the resulting page will be
"thankyou.htm"
and not "index_thankyou.htm"?

to not have the prefix you need to use the sub-folder option. go into tools
web page options and turn on the option to use the sub-folder. the files
will then be in the sub folder without the prefix.

2 - Is there not a way to have the resulting file name be html instead of
htm? If I rename the file extension on my server will the page still
function?

to use html don't let the extension default when you save, meaning when you
save/publish, you type in index.html explicitly rather then letting it
default.
the web server recognizes both extensions and many more, equally. You should
have no reason to care whether it's html or htm. as for the last question,
no. if you change anything after publisher creates it you'll break the site.
how about an analogy... say you build a new home and the post office assigns
you an address and the builder puts the address on the home. after it's
built you go and pull the address numbers and put up other numbers. do you
think you'd get mail?

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com

 

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Thanks for the reply.

Wanting to rename to html is due to the fact that my site is made up of
several Publisher files and I already have hyperlinks pointing to specific
page names. So when I upgraded and re-publisher under the 2003 version,
because it renamed pages with the Index_ prefix and the htm suffix, the links
would produce 404 errors.

I don't like the sub-folder option, but I guess I'll have to learn to love
it...and thanks for the html naming tip. I was afraid it would produce a
"thankyou.html.htm" file.

Amy

inline...

I have an existing site made with Publisher 2000 that has worked great for
me. I've recently upgraded to v.2003 and as I'm upgrading parts of my
site
it's causing me problems. Specifically with the way v.2003 names the
resulting htm files. Thus I have 2 questions that I haven't been able to
find clear answers on in your forum:

1 - in 2003, I can name my files what I want, but Publisher sticks
"index_"
on the beginning of each file name. Is there a way for me to fix it so if
I
want to name a page "thankyou" that the resulting page will be
"thankyou.htm"
and not "index_thankyou.htm"?

to not have the prefix you need to use the sub-folder option. go into tools
web page options and turn on the option to use the sub-folder. the files
will then be in the sub folder without the prefix.

2 - Is there not a way to have the resulting file name be html instead of
htm? If I rename the file extension on my server will the page still
function?

to use html don't let the extension default when you save, meaning when you
save/publish, you type in index.html explicitly rather then letting it
default.
the web server recognizes both extensions and many more, equally. You should
have no reason to care whether it's html or htm. as for the last question,
no. if you change anything after publisher creates it you'll break the site.
how about an analogy... say you build a new home and the post office assigns
you an address and the builder puts the address on the home. after it's
built you go and pull the address numbers and put up other numbers. do you
think you'd get mail?

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com