It is usually do to a faulty printer/graphics driver. Does Publisher open okay in
safe mode? Disable your printer before opening Publisher, if it opens go to the
manufacturer's web site and look around for newer drivers.

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Mary Sauer MS MVP
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> When we load Office 2000 Small Business and than open
> Publisher we get the following error.
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> What can we do to fix this error.