Publisher Corruption

[Rob Oliver]

Every time I start publisher 2002, it starts fine but as
soon as you try to open a existing document OR start a new
one it gives you the worthless message that publisher has
to close and is restarted, which of course is a loop. Now
we know Microsoft make some of the buggiest stuff out
there but the error message (nor the report sent to
Microsoft) give any information on what could cause this.
I have tried repair, that fails, I have uninstalled
Publisher and reinstalled it, that failed, I tried the TWO
service packs, that failed, so now I am going to uninstall
Office XP, and publisher, spend a great deal of time
editing the registry to remove references, as well as hunt
dow all the stuff the uninstall does not remove then try a
re-install. So anyone out there have an explenation or fix
for this? You would think that several DOZEN errors sent
to Microsoft might get someone's attention but I guess
they are to busy to support there own software.

 

[James Maitland]

I have having the same exact problem with Microsoft
Publisher. One of the strangest things is that I am
seeing this in 5 machines. At first I thought it was just
isolated but it looks like a MAJOR bug of some sort in the
Publisher program.

The only thing I can point to are a possible corruption of
fonts. My biggest problem is trying to find out how to
find out which ones are corrupt. I don't have time to go
through ALL of them.