PUB2: How to Recover Information from a Corrupt Publication

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Publisher versions 2.0, 2.0a
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This article discusses some of the techniques you can use to try to open or
retrieve information from a damaged publication.

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All of these methods assume that you receive an error message when
you try to open the publication.

Method 1:   Change the Windows default printer driver to something
            other than the current one. Try to open the publication.

Method 2:   Hide pictures and try to open the publication.

            a. Start Publisher and create a new, blank publication.

            b. On the Tools menu, click Hide Pictures.

            c. Try to open the corrupt publication.

            If this technique works, the problem is a corrupted
            graphic. You can try showing the pictures and paging
            through the publication. When you find a page that gives
            you an error, you know what page contains the corrupted
            picture.

Method 3:   Recover from a temporary file.

            a. Using File Manager or Windows Explorer, look for
               a temporary file in the same directory as the corrupted
               publication. The file will have a name similar to:

                 ~pub1024.tmp

            b. If a temporary file exists, rename it so that it has
               a .pub file extension.

            c. Try to open this file in Publisher.

            This temporary file (if it exists) will not be the current
            version of the publication. It will be an earlier revision.

Method 4:   Import the text into another publication.

            a. Start Publisher and create a new, blank publication.

            b. Draw a text frame.

            c. On the File menu, click Import Text.

            d. In the Import Text dialog box, choose the corrupted
               publication and click OK.

            This technique will recover the text from the corrupted
            publication, but it will not recover the graphics.

Method 5:   Open the file in Write or WordPad. Delete all the non-text
            characters. What you have left will be the text from
            your publication.

Additional query words: 2.00 2.0 w_mspub mspub pub2.0