can I use FrontPage 03 to edit and publish old Publisher 97 files

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Publisher files?

If you mean edit a web site created by Publisher with FrontPage...yes...but
you'd be better off just redoing the site with FrontPage than trying to fix
and old Publisher created web.

If you mean edit a Publisher file meant for print...no.
 
Not unless the files where saved from Publishing as HTML.

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how would I'd be better off ? do U mean there would be more work trying to
fix it,
rather than starting over ?

I did the site over 5 years ago, and haven't been back . . . until now, and
I discover that Pub97 somehow will no longer ~talk~ to the ftp server . . .
 
Yah, start over with FP...if you haven't been back in 5 years it's time for
an update anyway. Use a host that offers FP extensions - makes things
simple.
 
thankx Crash

Rob Giordano (Crash) said:
Yah, start over with FP...if you haven't been back in 5 years it's time for
an update anyway. Use a host that offers FP extensions - makes things
simple.
Click to expand...
 
I doubt anyone without Publisher will be able to view them, but yes...you
can publish them with FP 2003.

No you can't open a *.pub in Frontpage to edit it (and i'm not sure if FP97
had the ability to export to html either) - Frontpage uses and works with
internet files eg html, asp, aspx, css, js, and so on.

Publisher designs publications for print, not online.
 
Better off designing and working on a web site in a package that is designed
for that purpose - Publisher is not designed for designing web pages!
 
Publisher will export an html page but it's not very good. It will turn any
large test into graphics regions. pages load slowly and often look bitmappy.
It makes sort of big blocks of things that can't be properly edited.
You can open them in FP though and see them.
Better to start in a new FP web and cut and paste the old page text and
graphics individually from Publisher.
 
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