Today I received a newsletter to review, which should have been a fairly simple task you would think. Well sadly not where I work… It had been created in publisher, which I don’t have on my work machine, but it is on our Trade Union computer (it was a TU newsletter). Easy! I thought I would email it to the TU account and open it up on the TU machine. The email bounced!!! Normally I would just copy the file onto a disc to use on the on the other PC, but at work my drives are disabled…. However we do have a stand alone PC on my section that does have the drives enabled and the appropriate software for burning discs so I saved the email somewhere it could be accessed on the other computer copied the file and went to the TU office. It took about 10 minutes for the computer to start up and log me in only to find that our version of publisher was too old to open the file…
I am rather puzzled to have received the newsletter in the first place because I was supposed to be writing it in conjunction with another person. Oh well I guess it saves us a job ;-)
I nearly forgot to mention, I found out why the email bounced, there were 399 emails in the in box exceeding the storage limit so the account had been closed, it’s sorted now…
5 comments:
I could always try converting it for you ;)
Thank You :-) I have managed to open it at home although it doesn't display properly. So I wonder which version of publisher they are using? I have the latest version and work has a very old version :-/
Life is like that sometimes, isn't it? You can't do this until you've done that but you can't do that until this is done and so on.
Publisher can be a real pain. I like it but lots of other people don't.
It certainly is... It can be quite frustrating!
I have to say I love publisher too I find it really user friendly :-) I am not sure what they have done to it to make it not work properly....
My e-mails bounce the whole time, Cherie. Nothing tragic here, as you noted later.
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