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How to Repair Microsoft Publisher Won’t Save Files as PDF

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Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application developed by Microsoft. As a program, it is often used to create documents. Since documents are usually meant to be read, it is natural that people want to save them in one format or another.

For some time now, users have complained that Microsoft Publisher causes problems when they try to save documents in PDF format. Users may get the following error when trying to save a Publisher file in PDF or XPS format: Microsoft Publisher cannot save the file. read more

How to Solve the “Missing plugins” error in Adobe InDesign

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Adobe InDesign is useful software and therefore has a significant number of users. However, several InDesign users have recently reported the message “Cannot open the file. Adobe InDesign plug-ins are missing. Please update your plugins to the latest versions.” It appears when users try to open a file created with Adobe InDesign on their computer.

What causes the Adobe InDesign Missing Plugins error?

  • The error occurs after installing a third-party plugin for Adobe InDesign.
  • When using certain plug-ins included with InDesign.
  • Errors associated with plug-ins associated with certain documents.
  • Sometimes the error indicates that certain “plug-ins are missing“.
  • The error also occurs when referring to a specific plug-in in a collision log file.

How to fix the “missing plug-ins” error in Adobe InDesign?

Remove the plugin information from your file

  1. Open the InDesign program.
  2. Click File, then choose the Export option.
  3. Export the file in .idml format.
  4. The .idml file format can be opened in any previous version of Adobe InDesign.
  5. After opening the file in InDesign (for example, CS3), simply save it as .inx and export it as a “.indd” file to remove all of the plugin information stored in that file.
  6. After completing this process, check to see if the error message appears again.

Tip: This method should help if the program reports a plugin missing (model.indesignplugin channels) error. The problem occurs when you try to open an old .indd file. read more

Troubleshoot Error in Excel: File format and extension do not match

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When trying to open or edit an Excel file in MS Office, many users report the error “Excel cannot open the file because the file format or extension is invalid.”

The full error message is as follows:

“Excel cannot open the file `Filename.xlsx` because the file format or extension is invalid. Make sure the file is not damaged and that the file extension matches its format.”

The error message `Document format and file extension do not match’ when a user attempts to open certain files in Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Excel. All previously saved data will be deleted when you click the “Yes” button.

In this article, we will explain the common causes of this error and discuss some effective solutions to fix the .xlsx error. We will also explain to you how to recover MS Excel data. read more