Publisher crashes when I try to delete 3 specific pages.

[Andrew Black]

I have 3 pages within a 100 page publication that are giving me problems. I
can delete any of the pages in the publication, except 3 of them. When I
delete them, they delete fine, but as soon as I try to save, Publisher
crashes without saving the file. (It's an "unexpected" crash that asks to
send an error report to MS.) I have talked with support, and transferred them
the file, it does the same thing on there machine with there Publisher
install.

My question is 1st, does anyone know whats causing this?

My 2nd question:

Is there a way to move all of the pages except those 3 out of the
publication and into a new one?


Thanks for any help!

Andrew Black

 

[Mary Sauer]

What happens if you group all the objects on the page and move them to the
scratch area, can you delete the page?
Sounds as though you have some corruption going on. Can you delete the objects
one by one and then delete the page?
It would be helpful to know the error and the version of Publisher you are
using.

 

[Andrew Black]

I am using Publisher 2003.
These 3 pages are blank believe it or not. There is literally nothing on them.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Open the Design Checker. It may take a long time to check a hundred page
document, but it may give you a clue...

If you open a simple Publisher file, open the Design Checker, click Design
Checker Options, you can uncheck some of the options, Publisher will retain the
options on every publication. It will hasten the checking on your troublesome
document.

Has this document always been edited in 2003?

 

[Andrew Black]

From what I know this document has only been edited in Publisher 2003. This
document has existed for some time though, and it is very possible that other
versions were used on it. The three pages causing problems were all created
in Publisher 2003. That is the craziest thing. When I run the design checker
I get alot of proportion and encroachment warnings, but on the 3 pages in
question, the only warning I get is that "The image is not visible" and "Page
is not scaled proportionally" I can select all, delete all, and THEN delete
page, and that still does not save without crashing. Any ideas?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Has your printer changed during the edits? Is your publication a booklet? Can
you do a save as?

Try doing the page delete in safe mode.

How to view error signatures if an Office program experiences a serious error
and quits
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289508/en-us

Do you have the service pack?
Issues that are fixed in Publisher 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/906339/en-us

 

[Andrew Black]

Here is the error report
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Microsoft Office 11
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/3/2006
Time: 11:29:57 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ANDYS
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Office 11 )
cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer.
You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see
Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event:
mspub.exe, 11.0.5525.0, 3f255ba1, mspub.exe, 11.0.5525.0, 3f255ba1, 0,
00065b62.

Yes the printer has changed. Yes it is a booklet. No I can not do a save as.
No I can not make the changes in safe mode.