Microsoft KB Archive/148843

PUB2: How to Recover Information from a Corrupt Publication

= PUB2: How to Recover Information from a Corrupt Publication =

Q148843
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