Preview Word documents

[Kingstonsean]

In Office Pro 2003 I could preview the contents of a Word doc in File | Open,
or when clicking on the file folder icon. "Preview" was an option along with
Icons, List, Details, etc. This feature is not present in Office 2007 under
"Views". Under Organize | Layout there is a "Preview" option, but when I
select this option and then select a file the preview pane remains blank.

Is there a way in Office 2007 to preview files as described above for Office
2003?

Details: Office 2007 SP1, Vista Home Premium

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The option is still present (and works) in Word 2007 running under Windows
XP; my understanding is that for some reason this doesn't work under Vista,
which has its own preview function.

 

[Kingstonsean]

Thank you. I'll use Explorer in Vista from now on to preview file content.