Microsoft Publisher is a great program for designing printed material, but many reported that Publisher won’t open for them. In case you’re having issues with Publisher, there are many better alternatives that you can try. One way to fix these issues is to update the Publisher to the latest version and check if that helps.
Try going to Start > All programs and find Publisher and open from there rather than from a shortcut icon on your desktop. If successful then browse to a Publisher file from within Publisher and open. If both those things are successful then it may be that the file association has been broken and you need to fix that.
Why can’t I open publisher on my computer?
Update your Microsoft Publisher installation By default, all Microsoft Office components encounter an error when they are outdated and you try to launch them. You may update your Office apps by accessing this link. This web-page will provide you with both the instructions on how to update Office.
Or, after right-clicking on an Office file and select Open, there is no response. Does the file really not open? To confirm it, just go to Task Manager to check out in the Process tab. If, for example, the word program is running there, then, Windows system thinks the file is already opened.
The issue is with the McAfee Total Protection application. If it is suspended Publisher can open the files. Report abuse Report abuse.
Right click on the file name, select “Rename”, and changed the extension from .tmp to .pub, and press “enter”. You can try double clicking that file or browsing to that file from within Publisher to open.
What is Microsoft Publisher and how does it work?
Microsoft Publisher is an application used for desktop publishing from Microsoft. It is different from Microsoft Word in that the focus is put on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing. This makes Microsoft Publisher extremely common within businesses, and as such plenty of issues have been reported everywhere.
This begs the query “Is Microsoft Publisher included in Office 365 subscription?”
Let me first assure you that, based on the data available to me, Microsoft Publisher is included in all office 365 subscription products . Based on that data I believe office may have partially or incompletely installed on your PC. I would recommend running an “Online Repair” installation of the product., and instructions follow:.
What does this is not a publisher publication error message mean?
– This is not a Publisher Publication. – Publisher cannot open the type of file represented by
How do I recover a corrupted/damaged publisher file?
System restore will not effect on your files that are created. You may try to recover data by opening a new Publisher file and click open, browse to open the corrupted/damaged file.
Unfortunately, if the file is corrupted, you cannot open it. The file corruption happens when the file was not properly or completely written to the hard drive when you closed your Publisher program. If the Pub file was also sent by someone through email, then corruption could be during the transmission of the file or the downloading of the file.