MS Publisher 98

I create a yearly calendar for our employees using
Publisher. I have encountered some problems this year that
do not seem to correct themselves with rebooting. The
message is as follows:

MSPUB. exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows.......A temp file is created, when I open the temp
file Word opens.
Then I get this message: Due to low memory or use of a
floppy you started with..... (Memory space is not low and
there is no disk in any of the drives.)

Any changes that I have made are not saved and I am left
to start inputting data that has already been input.

Do you have any suggestions that might help me?

Wilson

KLXrider
Mon Aug 18 18:22:54 CDT 2003

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:44:40 -0700, "MW"
<Wilson@whittierchristian.org> wrote:

>Memory space is not low

Are you checking this with the program running or after it has already
crashed? Open task manager then open Publisher to check you memory
usage.

Sounds like a memory leak, but you might try starting the program with
a floppy in the drive just to see if you closed the program with a
floppy in the drive last time. Also, if you have touched your
pagefile size, you might want to put it back where it was.

Publisher can give you lots of headaches (like most MS products) if
you don't treat it nicely.

KLXrider, MCNGP #18

Marko
Tue Aug 19 07:25:57 CDT 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>I create a yearly calendar for our employees using
>Publisher. I have encountered some problems this year
that
>do not seem to correct themselves with rebooting. The
>message is as follows:
>
>MSPUB. exe has generated errors and will be closed by
>Windows.......A temp file is created, when I open the
temp
>file Word opens.
>Then I get this message: Due to low memory or use of a
>floppy you started with..... (Memory space is not low and
>there is no disk in any of the drives.)




The "Low memory..." general fault error after program.exe
creates a fault error with a microsoft product tends to be
a corrupt template file. For example, with MS Word, if
you receive the low virtual memory type error when
starting word, delete normal.dot files from the PC and the
error goes away.

I don't know if this holds true for Publisher 98 since I
have never had this specific error, but it won't hurt to
locate the template that publisher uses to start and put
it in the recycle bin and see if the problem disappears.
If I'm wrong, restore the file. Missing template files
are recreated when you start the program, but you lose
things like default font properties, etc.