Quick Look and Cover Flow not working for all office documents

[David_J_Bell]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Quick look is a feature of the OS X finder I use all the time for previewing my word docs before I go to the trouble of opening them. So I'd really like to have this functionality back!

I originally didn't think this was an Office problem, but a user on a Mac forum suggested I try generating new .plist files (com.microsoft.Word.plist and com.microsoft.office.plist) as described here: http://word.mvps.org/mac/damagedprefs.html

I've also tried the same proceedure for the quicklook plist file, all to no avail.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[John McGhie]

Quick Look is Apple software, part of OS X.

Microsoft Office is not involved.

The only suggestions I have seen are to "Reapply the 10.6.2 combo update".
Apparently that fixes Quick Look not looking...

If it works, please let us know...

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Quick look is a feature of the OS X finder I use all the time for previewing
my word docs before I go to the trouble of opening them. So I'd really like
to have this functionality back!

I originally didn't think this was an Office problem, but a user on a Mac
forum suggested I try generating new .plist files (com.microsoft.Word.plist
and com.microsoft.office.plist) as described here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/damagedprefs.html

I've also tried the same proceedure for the quicklook plist file, all to no
avail.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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[David_J_Bell]

Yea, I figured it was an OS problem, but I'm surprised I haven't found any others who've experienced the same problem.

While it's a big incovenience, I don't think I want to revert back to a version of Snow Leopord from Nov. of last year to try and fix it. Guess I'll have to pray that 10.6.4 solves it.

 

[CyberTaz]

Have a look in the place where they would be hanging out

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac