Publisher html document incompatable with Internet Explorer.

[Dave Hawks]

I have created a newsletter in Microsoft Publisher and then saved it as a
filtered web page.
When viewed in Fiefox and Safari it works perfectly, with the ability to
display each page seperatly and navigate between them using the navbar
created during the "save as a web document" procedure. In internet explorer
however only page 1 is displayed and the navigation is not displayed at all.
Can anyone suggest the cause of the problem and a solution.
Thanks

 

[DavidF]

There is a compatibility issue with IE8 and Publisher 2003 and 2007. Any
design elements that are 'grouped' together, which includes the Publisher
wizard built navbars, do not render when you view the web page in IE8 . The
fix in general is to ungroup the elements. There is both a manual fix to
these issues and a Service Patch that has been issued to fix it for Pub
2007.

Reference: Navigation bars and other content is missing from Publisher HTML
output in Internet Explorer 8: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969705

A manual method of fixing this grouping issue:

After making and saving any changes to your Pub file, and prior to uploading
new web files, make a copy of your publication by doing a 'File > Save As'
and in this copy go to each page > Edit > Select All > Arrange > Ungroup.
This will ungroup the Publisher built navbar and disconnect it from the
wizard, and the navbars will render correctly in IE8. 'Publish to the Web'
from this copy of your publication. When you want to make further changes in
your web, go back to the original Publisher file, make the corrections
there, save your changes, and again make a copy, ungroup the
navbars and produce new web files for uploading. The advantage of this
workflow is that you will not have to rebuild the navbar if you choose to
add a page to the navbar. If you do not need to add a page or section to
your site, you can leave the navbar ungrouped and skip the step of saving a
copy.

Publisher 2007 can be fixed manually or with the Office 2007 SP2:

Reference: Description of 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)
and of Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953195

Some users have found SP2 breaks Publisher, and makes it impossible to open
existing Pub files...you know, break one thing to fix another, so there is a
hotfix for that:

Description of the Publisher 2007 hotfix package (Publisher-x-none.msp):
October
27, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/976177/en-us

DavidF

 

[Dave Hawks]

Thanks for the prompt response.
The download of service pack 2 does enable the document to work correctly in
IE8, but as I doubt if most people are aware of this it will not solve the
problem on my website.
The manual fix of ungrouping each page appears to remove the text from the
navbar, making it unusable.
I there something else that I have missed?
Regards

 

[DavidF]

When you apply the Office 2007 SP2, this makes changes in the html code that
Publisher produces. This code will render correctly by anyone viewing your
website with IE8. They do not need to install the SP2, nor would they unless
they had Office 2007.

Once you have installed SP2, you are good to go. Only Pub 2003 users need
deal with the manual ungrouping as there is no patch for Pub 2003.

DavidF