I give here one solution .
The problem is IE8 does not display menus, navigation bar and some other parts such as grouped text field.
I use publisher 2003 in french.
One way is to re-design manually all menus and navigation bar.
insert a field for text , example : Contact
right clic on the text , choose hypertext link , location in the document, choose the page corresponding to your contact page.
Be sure you text field in NOT grouped
It should work.
If you think the color of you text (green because of the link) not nice,
you can try to use a standard text with no link and to add for example a rectangle on your text.
Draw a rectangle at a free place on your page, right clic your rectangle and declare the link to the Contact page.
Then drag and drop the rectangle on your text.
Then you text can have the color you want.
When your menu is completed, you can group all the rectangle and copy and past on all the pages.
BUT do not forget to ungroup all menus of all pages.
If not, menu will be not display.
I hope this will help ...
see the result on my site :
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