Previewers Not Available in Outlook 2007

[Fred Gaston]

Must I install Word & Excel 2007 to have previewer functionality in Outlook
2007? (I only installed Outllook 2007 & Word/Excel 2003 are still
installed). I can't find any option to install previewers. Thanks

 

[Mary]

Do you mean the Reading Pane? That's not tied to Word. It should be under
View on the OL menu. Look up Reading Pane in Help.

 

[Fred Gaston]

Mary:
Reading pane is working. When I click on a Word attachment it says "This
file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it".
Wondering if the previewers are add-ons or must Word 2007 be installed too?
Thanks, Fred

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Yes, you need the 2007 versions installed to get the previewer
functionality for Excel and Word.

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[Fred Gaston]

I figured it out. The previewer is not available if you haven't installed
the underlying application (i.e. Word to preview Word files, etc.). I
installed Word 2007 & can now preview Word attachments. Fred