Apple Preview Broken in Office 2004

[Sidney]

Since upgrading, I've been unable to preview my documents using Apple's
preview button. Clicking it sends the document to the printer (horribly
annoying when I don't WANT something to print in its current state).
Is there any way to repair this?

 

[Elliott Roper]

Since upgrading, I've been unable to preview my documents using Apple's
preview button. Clicking it sends the document to the printer (horribly
annoying when I don't WANT something to print in its current state).
Is there any way to repair this?

Does it work properly in other applications? e.g. TextEdit?
I'm still on v.X and it working fine here

As a workaround, till some better advice arrives, choose one of the new
PDF options in the print menu. Inconvenient, but it saves paper.

As an aside, I'm PDF-ing all my long documents now, so Spotlight can
see past the first few pages on content searches.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Since upgrading, I've been unable to preview my documents using Apple's
preview button. Clicking it sends the document to the printer (horribly
annoying when I don't WANT something to print in its current state).
Is there any way to repair this?

It's working fine for me. Office uses standard MacOS system dialogs for
printing. This sounds to me to likely be a problem with your printer
driver. Have you tried reinstalling it?

 

[Clive Huggan]

On 20/5/05 7:21 PM, in article 200520051021523995%[email protected], "Elliott

As an aside, I'm PDF-ing all my long documents now, so Spotlight can
see past the first few pages on content searches.

Thanks, Elliott -- great idea!

Clive
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[Sidney]

Does it work properly in other applications? e.g. TextEdit?
I'm still on v.X and it working fine here

It's fine everywhere except Office 2004. MS seems to think that their
"quick preview" is enough.

As a workaround, till some better advice arrives, choose one of the new
PDF options in the print menu. Inconvenient, but it saves paper.

As an aside, I'm PDF-ing all my long documents now, so Spotlight can
see past the first few pages on content searches.

I could use that in the mean time…

Wait, so Spotlight can't read entire Word documents? That's a new one for me…

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Wait, so Spotlight can't read entire Word documents? That's a new one for meŠ

Spotlight can only read the first 100K of *any* document. The problem is
that 100K in Word goes by very fast since, for instance, things like
formatting and styles are contained in paragraph markers. That's why
Spotlight will get farther in TextEdit reading the same document than it
will in Word.

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Since upgrading, I've been unable to preview my documents using Apple's

It's fine everywhere except Office 2004. MS seems to think that their
"quick preview" is enough.

It's not broken in my Word 2004. It opens up the doc in Preview, as a "soft
proof." Did you try reinstalling your printer driver?

Anyhow, the thing to rely on is not the "quick preview" in the Print dialog,
nor Apple's Preview button, but Print Preview in Word itself.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Does it work properly in other applications? e.g. TextEdit?
I'm still on v.X and it working fine here

It's fine everywhere except Office 2004. MS seems to think that their
"quick preview" is enough.[/QUOTE]

AFAIK, MS has nothing to do with Print Preview from the Print Dialog.
Office uses the standard print dialog and your print driver, so if a
document prints on paper, Word's delivering the output properly.

In any case, it works fine for me. I'd suggest updating your print
driver.