PUB98: Can't Open Publications in Earlier Versions of Publisher
Article ID: 178609
Article Last Modified on 8/6/1999
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Publisher 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q178609
SUMMARY
You cannot open a publication created in (or saved by) Microsoft Publisher
98 in earlier versions of Publisher. If you try to open a Publisher 98
publication in Publisher 97, you receive the following message:
Publisher cannot load files from a different version.
Furthermore, if you try to copy one or more objects from Publisher 98 and
paste them into Publisher 97, one of the following happens:
- Nothing appears in Publisher 97. If you then click the Edit menu,
Paste and Paste Special are unavailable.
- You receive the following error message:
Not enough memory to access Clipboard.
Windows is low on memory and can't access the clipboard. Save
your work and close other applications to free up memory, then
try again.
You can, however, copy one or more objects from Publisher 98 and paste
them into Microsoft Publisher for Windows, version 2.0. To do this,
however, you may have to click Paste Special on the Edit menu in Publisher
2.0 and then click Picture.
MORE INFORMATION
Publisher 98 adds a number of new attributes to each type of frame. When
you copy a frame to the clipboard, the data is almost, but not quite,
understandable by Publisher 97. Publisher 97 tries to treat the data as
though it was created in Publisher 97, and the paste operation fails.
Publisher 2.0 is different enough from Publisher 98 that it can accept the
data if you paste it as a picture.
You can copy objects from Publisher 97 and paste them into Publisher 98.
Additional query words: 97 98 4.0 5.0 2.0 mspub w_mspub pub3 pub4 pub 5 pub 98 pub97 pub95 downgrade earlier versions downsave down save retroactive save
Keywords: kbinfo kbfaq KB178609