Microsoft Publisher - I was using Pub 2000, how can I do the following again ?

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I was using Pub 2000, how can I do the following again ?

EtPlus

2006-07-10, 6:53 pm

My website has categories. For example, the main page, a daytime section,
primetime etc.., in the earlier versions of my website, all of them was under
one publisher file. I started having problems cause I had over 50 pages on
them so decided to create a seperate pub file for each section and to upload
them in seperate folders on the web. So www.website.com/Daytime/ had the
files for Daytime. I just had to put the links that corresponded to each
directory and articles and it was fine. Here is my problem with Pub 2007.

You can save your pages only to ways. Either you have the index.htm and the
foler index_files. So every page besides the index comes from this folder. So
now, I have to redo all my links to include the /index_files/ in it.

Or, you can decide not to put those files in that folder. The stupid thing
that happens, is that Publisher goes and adds index_ in front of every page
name. So I I linked my main section to a link in the daytime section, I have
to add the index_ in front. It looks like anyway I want to do it, it won't
just save the files like the old 2000 did ? Is there a solution for this, or
am I doomed to just revert back to the old program !

DavidF

2006-07-10, 6:53 pm

That's just the nature of the Pub 2003 coding engine and the way it produces
and names the pages. Sorry. Perhaps keep 2003 for print document work, and
2000 for your website work. It is the better version for websites for lots
of reasons beyond what you have already discovered. Don't consider yourself
"doomed", consider yourself lucky that you have 2000. You can run both
versions of Publisher on your computer. I have Pub 97, 2000, 2003 and the
2007 beta installed, and will continue to use Pub 2000.

DavidF

"EtPlus" <EtPlus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC25EFD7-B51D-4DFD-B8D7-010CACF415E7@microsoft.com...
> My website has categories. For example, the main page, a daytime section,
> primetime etc.., in the earlier versions of my website, all of them was
> under
> one publisher file. I started having problems cause I had over 50 pages on
> them so decided to create a seperate pub file for each section and to
> upload
> them in seperate folders on the web. So www.website.com/Daytime/ had the
> files for Daytime. I just had to put the links that corresponded to each
> directory and articles and it was fine. Here is my problem with Pub 2007.
>
> You can save your pages only to ways. Either you have the index.htm and
> the
> foler index_files. So every page besides the index comes from this folder.
> So
> now, I have to redo all my links to include the /index_files/ in it.
>
> Or, you can decide not to put those files in that folder. The stupid thing
> that happens, is that Publisher goes and adds index_ in front of every
> page
> name. So I I linked my main section to a link in the daytime section, I
> have
> to add the index_ in front. It looks like anyway I want to do it, it won't
> just save the files like the old 2000 did ? Is there a solution for this,
> or
> am I doomed to just revert back to the old program !

DavidF

2006-07-10, 6:53 pm

For more understanding about how Publisher has "evolved" read the articles
on the changes in Pub 2002 and 2003 on this page:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...egory/1922.aspx

DavidF

"EtPlus" <EtPlus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC25EFD7-B51D-4DFD-B8D7-010CACF415E7@microsoft.com...
> My website has categories. For example, the main page, a daytime section,
> primetime etc.., in the earlier versions of my website, all of them was
> under
> one publisher file. I started having problems cause I had over 50 pages on
> them so decided to create a seperate pub file for each section and to
> upload
> them in seperate folders on the web. So www.website.com/Daytime/ had the
> files for Daytime. I just had to put the links that corresponded to each
> directory and articles and it was fine. Here is my problem with Pub 2007.
>
> You can save your pages only to ways. Either you have the index.htm and
> the
> foler index_files. So every page besides the index comes from this folder.
> So
> now, I have to redo all my links to include the /index_files/ in it.
>
> Or, you can decide not to put those files in that folder. The stupid thing
> that happens, is that Publisher goes and adds index_ in front of every
> page
> name. So I I linked my main section to a link in the daytime section, I
> have
> to add the index_ in front. It looks like anyway I want to do it, it won't
> just save the files like the old 2000 did ? Is there a solution for this,
> or
> am I doomed to just revert back to the old program !

EtPlus

2006-07-10, 6:53 pm

We can always suggest strongly to have that encoding changed ! I would love
to use 9ub 2007 cause what you really do in it is really what you get ! Or I
will have to resign myself in using the new formatting...

I am a little dissapointed.

"DavidF" wrote:

> For more understanding about how Publisher has "evolved" read the articles
> on the changes in Pub 2002 and 2003 on this page:
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...egory/1922.aspx
>
> DavidF
>
> "EtPlus" <EtPlus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FC25EFD7-B51D-4DFD-B8D7-010CACF415E7@microsoft.com...
>
>
>

DavidF

2006-07-10, 6:53 pm

At this point, I suspect that it is too late to make that kind of change
with Pub 2007, no matter how strongly you suggest it. Pub 2007 is due to be
released sometime late this year, and currently it uses the same naming
convention.

As I suggested, I would stay with Pub 2000 for your web work if I were you.
Besides the page naming issue you have, the Pub 2000 coding engine produces
smaller, faster loading pages that enjoy much better cross browser support
among other things. Test it yourself against Pub 2003. Be aware that though
Pub 2003 can open a Pub 2000 file, Pub 2000 can not open a Pub 2003 file, so
be careful about backing up your Pub 2000 files. Open one of your Publisher
files in Pub 2000 and do a Save As a Web Page to a folder on your computer.
Then using a backup copy of the same file, open it in Pub 2003 and Publish
to the Web, to another folder on your computer, and then study the
difference in the output files and size. Just my two cents worth...

DavidF

"EtPlus" <EtPlus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We can always suggest strongly to have that encoding changed ! I would
> love
> to use 9ub 2007 cause what you really do in it is really what you get ! Or
> I
> will have to resign myself in using the new formatting...
>
> I am a little dissapointed.
>
>
> "DavidF" wrote:
>