PUB97: Can't Open Publisher 97 Files in Earlier Versions of Publisher (155411)

SUMMARY

You can't open a publication created in (or saved by) Publisher 97 in earlier versions of Microsoft Publisher. If you try to open a Publisher 97 publication in Publisher 95, you see this message:

Publisher cannot load files from a different version.

Furthermore, if you try to copy one or more objects from Publisher 97 and paste them into Publisher 95, one of the following happens:

Nothing appears in Publisher 95. If you then click the Edit menu, Paste and Paste Special are unavailable.
You receive the following error message:
Not enough memory to access Clipboard.
Windows is low on memory and can't access the clipboard. Save your work and close other applications to free up memory, then try again.

You can, however, copy one or more objects from Publisher 97 and paste them into Microsoft Publisher for Windows, version 2.0. To do this, however, you may have to click Paste Special on the Edit menu in Publisher 2.0 and then click Picture.

MORE INFORMATION

Publisher 97 adds a number of new attributes to each type of frame. When you copy a frame to the clipboard, the data is almost, but not quite, understandable by Publisher 95. Publisher 95 tries to treat the data as though it was created in Publisher 95, and the paste operation fails.

Publisher 2.0 is different enough from Publisher 97 that it can accept the data if you paste it as a picture.

You can copy objects from Publisher 95 and paste them into Publisher 97.