Microsoft Publisher Readme File
March 2001
© Microsoft Corporation, 2001. All rights reserved.

This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the Microsoft Publisher documentation, and is current as of the date above. After that date, you may find more current information and resources on the Microsoft Office Web site, available from the Help menu by clicking Office on the Web. Additional information, including network and administration issues, can be found on the Office Resource Kit Web site at:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/

For further technical information on Publisher, please search the Microsoft Product Support Services information on the Personal Online Support Web site at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/

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Contents

Installing Publisher
Error message 2355 or Corrupt Cabinet
Publisher keeps trying to complete an installation after Language Pack installation

Working with Publisher
Genius Assistant character no longer installed
Clip art Web Collections scope requires Internet Explorer 5 or later
Tools on the Web and Internet Explorer
Speech recognition menu is unavailable

Handwriting recognition may not display on the screen when using certain display settings

Publisher stops responding when using Font Schemes
Object fill colors or textures may leak outside the border of an object

Multilingual issues
Publisher and Indic languages

Help issues
Help topic: Tips for finding clips
Help topic: Turn on or off transparent floating toolbars

Installing Publisher

Error message 2355 or Corrupt Cabinet

If when you're installing Publisher, you receive error message number 2355 or the message text "Corrupt Cabinet," you'll need to update the version of Microsoft Windows Installer on your computer by running the appropriate executable file found on the installation CD. The following assumes that D:\ is your CD drive.

For Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition (Me) D:\FILES\SUPPORT\INSTMSI.EXE
For Windows NT 4.0 D:\FILES\SUPPORT\INSTMSIW.EXE
For Windows 2000 D:\FILES\SUPPORT\Q282879.EXE

After running the file, restart your computer and begin installation again.

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Publisher keeps trying to complete an installation after Language Pack installation

After a Language Pack is installed, you might receive a message telling you to complete your Publisher installation. To correct this problem, you need to choose the full installation of the Language Pack.

  1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings and the click Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
  3. Click the Language Pack you installed, and then click Change.
  4. As you progress through the installation process, choose Full installation instead of Typical.
  5. Complete the installation process.

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Working with Publisher

Genius Assistant character no longer installed

Publisher no longer supports the Genius Assistant character. For those who were using this Office Assistant and who are upgrading from Publisher 2000, the Assistant will be switched to the default character, Clippit. After you upgrade, you can select another Assistant by right-clicking the Assistant, and then clicking Choose Assistant.

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Clip art Web Collections scope requires Internet Explorer 5 or later

When you are searching for clip art, either in Clip Organizer or in the Insert Clip Art task pane, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later to use the Web Collections scope in the Search in list.

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Tools on the Web and Internet Explorer

To use the Tools on the Web feature from within Clip Organizer, or from the action menu of any clip, including those in the Insert Clip Art task pane, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later. This requirement does not apply to the Tools on the Web feature when accessed from the Tools menu.

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Speech recognition menu is unavailable

Speech recognition is available in the Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office XP.

If you're running Publisher version 2002 on Windows 98 or Windows Me, the Speech menu will not be available unless you install it by choosing the Run from my Computer option for Speech during installation, or you install Speech from within another Office program.

For more information about using speech recognition, type "speech recognition" in the Help index.

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Publisher stops responding when using Font Schemes

When you use Font Schemes your computer, Publisher may stop responding. This occurs when Publisher 2002 has been installed on Windows 98, and Windows 98 was not restarted at the end of the installation. To resolve this issue, close all programs and restart the computer.

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Handwriting recognition may not display on the screen when using certain display settings

If you are using handwriting recognition to enter text, handwriting may not appear on the screen if your computer's display colors are set to 256 Colors or if the display font size is set to Large Fonts.

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Object fill colors or textures may leak outside the border of an object

When printing composites or color separations, you may find that color is printing (bleeding) outside the boundary of a given object. To fix this, do the following:

  1. Right-click the object.
  2. On the pop-up shortcut menu, click Format <object name>. For example, if you’re working with an AutoShape, you’d click Format AutoShape.
  3. Click the Colors and Lines tab.
  4. Click to clear the Draw border inside frame checkbox.
  5. If you want to set the default so that color does not bleed outside the border, click the Default for new objects checkbox.
  6. Click OK.

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Multilingual Issues

Publisher and Indic languages

If you are enabling support for the Indic languages, it is recommended that you choose Indic in the Default version of Microsoft Office list in the Microsoft Office Language Settings (on the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Language Settings).

Office XP requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or later for Indic language support. Devanagari and Tamil scripts are fully supported with Windows 2000.

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Help issues

Help topic: Tips for finding clips

This topic contains an inaccurate example. The search "blue, car" would actually yield results for blue AND car for local scopes, and would yield results for blue only for the Web Collections scope.

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Help topic: Turn on or off transparent floating toolbars

Disregard this Help topic, which documents a toolbar feature that is not available in Publisher version 2002.

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