I created some files in Publisher 2003 and saved them to a shared drive. I installed Publisher 2003 on a user that had Office 2003 Pro but dis not have Publisher installed. All the other files on the shared drive have the proper file association for this user but the Publisher one (they have genaric icons). If you double click on these files, they try to open in Word. When you open the properties of one of these files, it says it is associated with word and if you change them to Publisher, it does not hold or change. If you create a new file in Publisher and save it, it saves but associates itself with Word again. I have run the Detect & Repair but that didn't do anything. Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on and how to correct this?
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File not opening in Publisher
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OK. I figured out my error.
When I had the CD add Publisher to the already installed programs, I did it logged in under the user. What I needed to do was log in as the administrator and add Publisher to the already installed programs and this corrected the problems trying to get open or save Publisher files.
When I had the CD add Publisher to the already installed programs, I did it logged in under the user. What I needed to do was log in as the administrator and add Publisher to the already installed programs and this corrected the problems trying to get open or save Publisher files.
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