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Word 2007: preview pane doesn't work
Hi everybody,
I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Word 2007: preview pane doesn't work
Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista
itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Hi Suzanne,
thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Word 2007: preview pane doesn't work (possible dupe)
It's not a bug; it's "by design."
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Hello Suzanne,
sorry to bother you again. "By design"? What do you mean? How come one cannot preview in Word the Word documents? How come in Excel one CAN preview the Excel spreadsheets? I am trying to understand the logic which could explain this design choice. I really do think the preview feature is indispensable and I do miss it. When I am in Word it bothers me to have to open the Vista Explorer to go thru and preview my Word documents and then open the one I need. Do I miss something? With all my Best, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... It's not a bug; it's "by design." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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I don't know who made the decision, but we were just told that Vista would
take over a lot of the features of previous versions of Word/Office (such as Speech Recognition), and the preview was one of them. Preview still works for Word 2007 under Windows XP; the Open and Save dialogs there also retain the Places Bar, which I believe is absent (or at least different) under Vista. There's some hype about this at http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getw...utingtips.mspx. OTOH, there's a thread at http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/.../msg02209.html that suggests that this may be a bug after all; another at http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3360282-1.php. There's more that may be useful at http://www.walkernews.net/2007/07/09...ane-revisited/ Herb Tyson seems to have some experience with this; perhaps he'll weigh in here. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, sorry to bother you again. "By design"? What do you mean? How come one cannot preview in Word the Word documents? How come in Excel one CAN preview the Excel spreadsheets? I am trying to understand the logic which could explain this design choice. I really do think the preview feature is indispensable and I do miss it. When I am in Word it bothers me to have to open the Vista Explorer to go thru and preview my Word documents and then open the one I need. Do I miss something? With all my Best, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... It's not a bug; it's "by design." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Thank you so much, Suzanne, for your detailed answer.
I also feel it can be a bug. I just realized it doesn't work in PowerPoint either. As for Excel, it was working fine this morning. Now it doesn't... In other words, the main Office applications can, in their Open | Preview pane, display all documents except those created in the application in question. Crazy, isn't it ? Well, I hope MS comes with an update or hotfix soon, for it is a most useful feature. If you hear about a proper solution, i.e. not a workaround, please be so kind as to post it. best regards, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... I don't know who made the decision, but we were just told that Vista would take over a lot of the features of previous versions of Word/Office (such as Speech Recognition), and the preview was one of them. Preview still works for Word 2007 under Windows XP; the Open and Save dialogs there also retain the Places Bar, which I believe is absent (or at least different) under Vista. There's some hype about this at http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getw...utingtips.mspx. OTOH, there's a thread at http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/.../msg02209.html that suggests that this may be a bug after all; another at http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3360282-1.php. There's more that may be useful at http://www.walkernews.net/2007/07/09...ane-revisited/ Herb Tyson seems to have some experience with this; perhaps he'll weigh in here. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, sorry to bother you again. "By design"? What do you mean? How come one cannot preview in Word the Word documents? How come in Excel one CAN preview the Excel spreadsheets? I am trying to understand the logic which could explain this design choice. I really do think the preview feature is indispensable and I do miss it. When I am in Word it bothers me to have to open the Vista Explorer to go thru and preview my Word documents and then open the one I need. Do I miss something? With all my Best, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... It's not a bug; it's "by design." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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Word 2007: preview pane doesn't work (possible dupe)
I did copy Herb Tyson on my last post, but he said "real work" had
intervened, and he might not get here for a day or two. Perhaps he'll have something to add. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne, for your detailed answer. I also feel it can be a bug. I just realized it doesn't work in PowerPoint either. As for Excel, it was working fine this morning. Now it doesn't... In other words, the main Office applications can, in their Open | Preview pane, display all documents except those created in the application in question. Crazy, isn't it ? Well, I hope MS comes with an update or hotfix soon, for it is a most useful feature. If you hear about a proper solution, i.e. not a workaround, please be so kind as to post it. best regards, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... I don't know who made the decision, but we were just told that Vista would take over a lot of the features of previous versions of Word/Office (such as Speech Recognition), and the preview was one of them. Preview still works for Word 2007 under Windows XP; the Open and Save dialogs there also retain the Places Bar, which I believe is absent (or at least different) under Vista. There's some hype about this at http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getw...utingtips.mspx. OTOH, there's a thread at http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/.../msg02209.html that suggests that this may be a bug after all; another at http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3360282-1.php. There's more that may be useful at http://www.walkernews.net/2007/07/09...ane-revisited/ Herb Tyson seems to have some experience with this; perhaps he'll weigh in here. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, sorry to bother you again. "By design"? What do you mean? How come one cannot preview in Word the Word documents? How come in Excel one CAN preview the Excel spreadsheets? I am trying to understand the logic which could explain this design choice. I really do think the preview feature is indispensable and I do miss it. When I am in Word it bothers me to have to open the Vista Explorer to go thru and preview my Word documents and then open the one I need. Do I miss something? With all my Best, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... It's not a bug; it's "by design." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, thks for your message. what is funny is that I can preview in Word Excel spreadsheets, pictures and all kinds of documents, except Word documents. With the Vista explorer I can preview everything, it seems. any clue? Is it a known bug? Brgds, Daniel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de ... Evidently Vista's preview trumps Word's. You can enable previews in Vista itself, I believe. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I am now using Word 2007 user, on a new PC with Vista. It seems that the document preview feature doesn't work. When I perform an "Open" operation and select a document, nothing appears in the right hand side preview pane. (I should also point out that it doesn't seem to wok with Excel 2007) Any particular setting I should modify? Anyone? Thanks in advance for your kind help. Best Rgds, Daniel |
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