<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:risely@tadaust.org.au">risely@tadaust.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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For anyone considering buying MS Publisher just to read someone else's .pub<br>
files, beware some versions of Publisher will NOT read files from different<br>
versions.<br></blockquote><div><br>Microsoft did that with Word too. There was a time when the only way to handle files between Office 97/2003 and Office 2007 was to use OpenOffice.org v3 Beta. And MS's service pack for Office 2007 to provide direct cross-version compatiblity for their own product was a massive 175Mb. The confusion this caused for students in the college I worked at that time was huge. <br>
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One of the reasons I moved away from the MS Publisher program.<br>
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OK, Page Plus is not free, but the time taken to produce good pages, costs<br>
money too.<br></blockquote><div><br>About 15 years there was a give away copy of Page Plus in the front cover of a UK magazine. I used that for a few months when producing a newsletter. It was okay and there was then nothing from Microsoft.<br>
</div></div><br>Regards, Trevor.<br><br><>< Re: deemed!<br>