Thank you for all your help!
I went through and uninstalled every screen capturing program on my PC. I never found any signs of D3dgear, but I did find others like bandicam, etc. I restarted the PC and unfortunately, the problem continues.
I restarted in safe mode, and in safe mode, I can successfully load a new page. So you are absolutely correct, there is something interfering with Publisher.
Now it's just a matter of finding what it is. I've searched and searched and cannot find any signs of D3dgear. I know since it is a third party software that is causing the problem I cannot expect you to fix it for me, but I was curious did the crash report give any other useful information? Like the file path of the D3dgear software that is causing the crash?