saving thumbnail preview with docx on office2007

[kirk jim]

I use XPsp2 and Office 2007,

is there a way to save a thumbnail preview along with the document?

Here you can see that OFFICE2007 on vista has a thumb option on save

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3980/clipboard011sv4.jpg

while here on XP it does not!
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4444/screenshot1tl6.png

Whats going on here? How can the same product have this difference
depending on the OS its installed on?

thanks

 

[Echo S]

Perhaps Office leverages this capability from the OS?

Anyway, in Word you can go to Office button | Prepare | Properties |
Document Properties | Advanced | Summary and choose "save preview picture."
(Yes, I know that's not as convenient as having an option on the save
dialog.)

 

[jim kirk]

hello.. thanks for this..

I will try it on XP to see if it works.. but, my question is
that will I have to do that for every document or
do it once and then that will apply to all documents in the future?

Perhaps Office leverages this capability from the OS?

Anyway, in Word you can go to Office button | Prepare | Properties |
Document Properties | Advanced | Summary and choose "save preview
picture." (Yes, I know that's not as convenient as having an option on the
save dialog.)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

I use XPsp2 and Office 2007,

is there a way to save a thumbnail preview along with the document?

Here you can see that OFFICE2007 on vista has a thumb option on save

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3980/clipboard011sv4.jpg

while here on XP it does not!
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4444/screenshot1tl6.png

Whats going on here? How can the same product have this difference
depending on the OS its installed on?

thanks

 

[Echo S]

You'd have to do it for all of them.

I don't know if you can add the "advanced properties" to the QAT or not --
but it would probably be worth a look.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

hello.. thanks for this..

I will try it on XP to see if it works.. but, my question is
that will I have to do that for every document or
do it once and then that will apply to all documents in the future?

Perhaps Office leverages this capability from the OS?

Anyway, in Word you can go to Office button | Prepare | Properties |
Document Properties | Advanced | Summary and choose "save preview
picture." (Yes, I know that's not as convenient as having an option on
the save dialog.)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

I use XPsp2 and Office 2007,

is there a way to save a thumbnail preview along with the document?

Here you can see that OFFICE2007 on vista has a thumb option on save

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3980/clipboard011sv4.jpg

while here on XP it does not!
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4444/screenshot1tl6.png

Whats going on here? How can the same product have this difference
depending on the OS its installed on?

thanks

 

[Stevo]

I don't think XP supports the previewing of files other than pictures.



Stevo

http://www.howtofixcomputers.com

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jim,

If you open, then modify, Word 2007's Normal.dotm template to turn on the preview picture property then new (blank) documents based
on that template should inherit that setting.

The 'thumbnail' choice in File=>Open is a Windows Vista feature rather than an Office feature. Note that the Office previews saved
in every Word file can make the files much larger.

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hello.. thanks for this..

I will try it on XP to see if it works.. but, my question is
that will I have to do that for every document or
do it once and then that will apply to all documents in the future? >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[kirk jim]

Unfortunatly you are wrong...

I changed Normal.dotm and Normal.dot

and it didnt work....

File size increased with a thumbnail? You gotta be kidding.
WHO CARES?

docx is a compressed format anyway

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Word's 'picture preview' isn't a 'thumbnail' That's a vista feature and on Vista the picture previews are basically ignored in
favor of the thumbnails. You had mentioned you were going to try this on Windows XP as well.

==============
Unfortunatly you are wrong...

I changed Normal.dotm and Normal.dot

and it didnt work....

File size increased with a thumbnail? You gotta be kidding.
WHO CARES?

docx is a compressed format anyway >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[kirk jim]

XP can preview anything as long as there is a codec for media,
or a proper dll to give this functionality.
An example of the later is pdf thumbnails with adobe reader 8.

Furthermore html mht url link shortcuts are thumbnail capable.

You can do anything with xp... as long as you find a dll that can read the
file and produce a thumbnail for it...

I can recall at some point some office version did this.. but it was so long
ago I cant remember.