Microsoft Publisher Database Problem

October 10, 2010 7:41 PM

I had a large address list in Microsoft Publisher 2003 I used for address label mail merges. It resided on a Windows XP3 Service Pack 3 machine. I upgraded my machine to Windows 7 32Bit and MS Office 2007. Mail merge address list Edit attempts now says "An operation cannot be completed because of database engine errors" report. Any suggestions on exporting that data or synchronizing to the new database form? Can I extract the data from this old database into some other format and import it to the new Publisher...or do I have to...eek... re-enter all the data and create a new database?
posted by dorgla to Home & Garden (3 answers total)

I'm no expert in Publisher, but if you can find the list and export it as a text file then you *should* be able to import it back into Publisher. (Works for Access)
posted by patheral at 7:49 PM on October 10, 2010

Why don't you open it in MS Publisher 2010 and save it in the new format?
posted by SuperSquirrel at 5:50 AM on October 11, 2010

Have you reinstalled Publisher 2003? And did you install Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 (as Publisher 2003 is considered to be Office 2003) and did you install Service Pack 2 for Office 2007?
posted by I-baLL at 10:16 AM on October 11, 2010