Explorer Preview Pane - Previews Not Displayed


  1. Harrismith
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    Explorer Preview Pane - Previews Not Displayed


    I have enabled the Preview Pane (Organize/Layout/Preview Pane) and the preview pane is displayed.
    However, the only preview that is displayed is *.jpg.
    Other files such as *.doc, *.docx, *.xls, *.txt and .eml are not displayed.
    Any Ideas what is wrong?
    Also I understand that there is someway to preview *.pdf
    Any help would be much appreciated.
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  3. Harrismith
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    For anyone else who experiences the same problem, the solution is to enable;
    Tools/Folder Options/Views/Show Preview Handlers in Preview Pane
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  4. robwin
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    Not true unless it's because I am using Office 2002, jpg images show ok but doc files do not but rtf files do.
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  6. nabilalk
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    Harrismith said:
    I have enabled the Preview Pane (Organize/Layout/Preview Pane) and the preview pane is displayed.
    However, the only preview that is displayed is *.jpg.
    Other files such as *.doc, *.docx, *.xls, *.txt and .eml are not displayed.
    Any Ideas what is wrong?
    Also I understand that there is someway to preview *.pdf
    Any help would be much appreciated.
    Same problem here. My PDF previews and Microsoft Office previews are blank (just see a white space). It does not say preview not available, just blank.

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