[Rob]

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

You're not doing anything wrong. There is a bug in Word 2007/Vista that
sometimes makes previews not show up. It's intermittent, and I would expect
that it will work sometimes, but not others, and I haven't discovered a
common thread. I have discovered, however, that the problem seems less
pronounced since installing SP1 for Office 2007.

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"GeorgeR" wrote in message
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Thanks you for the quick responses. Follow up question - Using the
Organize,
Layout, choices I enabled the preview pane. However, selecting a doc does
not show the preview in the pane, it remains blank. This is true for both
*.doc and *.docx files.

Interestingly, following the responses you've outlined, and with Office
closed, I can go to Start, Documents, and see the document preview there.
(if
Office is open to any of the products, the preview doesn't work at Start,
Documents.)

Any further suggestions? Am I am obviously doing something incorrectly?
At
least I have a "work-around." Thanks again for your help and suggestions.

"djprius" wrote:

Are you talking about Word 2007, which is what the poster inquired
about?

I get to the preview pane in Word 2007 as follows:
Office Button | Open | View (on toolbar) | Preview

David

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Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
In the Open dialog, click Organize - Layout - Preview pane.