Hi Vickie....I know this is a major pain in the butt....Microsoft did NOT do a good job of making Publisher 2002 backward compatible (same with PowerPoint 2002). I'm not that big of a Publisher user so I don't know if there is a way to preserve the formatting you want to preserve when you save it down to previous versions. The only thing I can suggest is this...this is the best Publisher website I know of.....it's run by Publisher MVPs and if anyone is going to be able to help you with this, it would be these people...so this is where I would check if it were me: http://www.mvps.org/publisher/index.html Good luck...and if you DO find the answers you are looking for, I hope you will come back here and share them with us. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vickie Hipkiss Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:50 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] MS Publisher 2002 question I recently upgraded my MS Publisher 2000 to 2002 but my local CopyMax has not seen fit to do so. There is a feature to save files in Publisher 2000 format but when I do so I lose column defintion, tabs and text box padding values. This loss is not mentioned in Help section defining items not saveable. Can anyone tell me what is happing? Vickie Walnut Creek, CA ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************