File names in Publisher 2007

Glad you sorted things out. Good luck with the transition to Joomla. Your
site and your articles will probably work well in more of a 'blog' or
'template' format.

In the meantime if you want help figuring out some of those "little things
you would like to do", then post in the web group. Sometimes there is an
answer. For example, though it is not a built-in capability you can center
your Publisher webs. Here is one: http://www.devonviewcaravans.co.uk/ If
you want to know how to do that, post in the web group or just peruse some
of the last few weeks of posts, as it is often discussed.

DavidF


"Nirmalanow" wrote in message
...
Thanks again for all your help. I just wanted to share that I figured out
why
I was not able to open a web preview. I had switched the file association
for
.htm files to Publisher because even when I had publisher open and clicked
on
an .htm file, it would open with my browser. Switching the file
associations
meant that the file would initially open in Publisher, but it also meant
that
when I tried to do a web preview, the file would also open again in
Publisher
in a new window. So I switched the file association back to my browser and
now I can do a preivew just fine.

We have a friend who does web design and he recently redid my wife's site
in
Joomla (www.radicalhappiness.com) and so we may have him design a new site
for me also. That way I only need to learn how to maintain the new site in
Joomla instead of having to learn the entire program from scratch.

Publisher has served me well, but it does seem I have outgrown it as there
are always a few little things I would like to be able to do, but can't or
have to be creative to accomplish in Publisher.

Thanks again for you help. You helped me over the hump in my switch to Pub
2007.

"DavidF" wrote:

A lot of people that start with Publisher webs, eventually outgrow the
program, and need to move on to a program with fewer limitations. I
haven't
use Joomla, but have read some good things about it. Now might be the
time
for you to make the move if you have the time to learn how to use Joomla.

With that said, learning the differences in how Pub 2007 works won't take
long. I can't reproduce your problem, but perhaps it is your workflow.
Here
is what I did.

1. Produce 'rich' html code pages by doing a Save As Web Page with
Publisher 2003. Direct the output to a folder on my local computer. (This
is
the same as your *.htm files.)
2. Open Publisher 2007 File Open and browse to where the 'rich' .htm
files are and open the index.htm file, or your custom.htm file. Publisher
will import all the web files and yes, it will call it Publication 2 or
higher.
3. File Save As and choose a name for the Pub file. This is the file
that
you will open and edit and produce new .htm files to upload when you want
to
update your site. Close Publisher.
4. Open Pub 2007, and the new Pub file that you just created...or just
double click the file.
5. Do a web page preview....works for me.

Note that when you do the Save As in step 3, the default is to save it as
a
Pub file. However, if you scroll down the 'Save as Type' you will see the
option to save as a web page. But note that you can only save as a
filtered
..htm file. Even if you want to continue to do a File Save As a web
page
the way you have always produced your .htm files, you can. Pub 2007 will
only produce filtered files whether you do a Save as or a Publish to the
Web.

If you check your file sizes between filtered and rich code your are
going
to find your filtered files much smaller. I did a quick check and the
test
file I used produced a 75k index.htm 'filtered code' file and the 'rich
code' index.htm file was 340k! It is little wonder that Publisher
developed
a reputation for suffering from code bloat.

I would suggest that you make archive copies of your 'rich' html files.
You
never know when you might want them, and once you switch to Publisher
2007,
you won't be able to produce any more.

Hope this leads to a solution with your web page preview and perhaps
smoothes the transition to Pub 2007, at least for the interim.

Once again I would invite you to post any follow up or new questions to
the
Publisher web groups, and perhaps peruse some of the posts for other
answers:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...sher.webdesign
or
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US

DavidF

"Nirmalanow" wrote in message
...
Thanks for further clarifying. I have a new problem which is that I can
not
seem to get the web page preview to work. When I click on Web Page
Preview,
Publisher 2007 just opens a new version of the same page in Publisher
and
calls it "publication 3". Even if I first save the file as a .pub file,
it
still will not open up my browser and show me the file as it will
appear.
Any
ideas why this might be happening?

I am glad you enjoyed viewing the site. It has evolved a lot over the
years
and yes I have put most of the content on the left since I can not get
the
site to center on the page. Then the large photos are there on the
right,
even if you might need to do some horizontal scrolling.

I may break down and have the site redone in Joomla since I am having
these
problems with Publisher 2007. There seems to be only so far you can go
in
using Publisher as a website creation tool, and I think I am ready for
a
slightly more polished look..