When will the program-code of Libre Office allow preview of ODT-1.2-files in Windows (File-)Explorer Preview Pane without having (newest) MS Word installed?

And secondly do I not speak about Internet Explorer or any web-brower-extension or web-browser function, but only of the Preview Pane of regular Windows (File-) Explorer, so of Preview Pane as part of the regular Windows OS, which is part of it at least since Windows NT, if I remember correctly, so the described lack of previeability and “navigability” of ODF-1.2-files exists for all Windows OS-Versions, while all ODF-1.0/1.1-files will be previewable and navigatable in Preview Pane of WExplorer

That means that I do speak of exactly the same lack of functionality as discussed in the linked AOO-bugzilla-item. LO and AOO do here have or produce the identical problem with ODF-1.2-files (but no problem with ODF-1.0/1.1-files) for Windows (OS) Explorer Preview Pane.

@Ballroom: yes, and I expressed in my answer that I understand your issue. But I told you that there was never such functionality in LibreOffice/OpenOffice; and most probably won’t be for foreseeable future for reasons described above.

The ability to preview ODF1.0/1.1 comes from installed MS Office, which is able to open these files since version 2007 SP1, and provides the preview in Windows Explorer. If you deinstall MS Office, the preview will also go.

@mikekaganski: Hello Mike, both of Your statements are not correct unfortunately: First is Windows Preview Pane capable to give a preview and navigation for ODF/ODT 1.0/1.1-files WITHOUT any MS Office installed, as I can assure You, cause I hadn´t it installed, whwn preview even under Win10 worked for my older odt-files, which were created with older AOO-versions until 2012 (in ODF-1.0/1.1-format) and secondly therefore at least Open Office had this functionality with WExpl.

As every ODT/ODF-1.0/1.1-file can be previewed and navigated through by Windows (File) Explorer Preview Pane, it depends upon the startdate of first Libre Office Version or more exactly, upon if the first LO-version formatted Open Docs in ODF-1.0/1.1-format, if Libre Office once also had that functionality. I think Libre Office- and AOO-communtity should solve that issue without forcing users to install newest MS Office or forcing them not to use Windows. I guess its just a small code-bug.

I have to correct one of my sentences above (in my first comment today): I used “Open Office” until 2012, if also I already (can have) used “Apache” Open Office before the end of 2012, I am not sure.

As you seem to fail reading the topics that you mention yourself in your question (i#107602), saying that in 2009, as well till 2016 (i.e., latest version), OOo and AOO haven’t had the function, I cannot help but tell you that my knowledge as LO developer isn’t sufficient to know what’s known to you. I can only hope that this link may help you to identify SW that previews on your system without MSO.

Hello Mike, thanks for Your link (with Your suggestion to use another program than windows explorer, namely opus directory, I guess? ). In my system MS Office doesn´t need to be installed to have preview pane working for ODF-1.0/1.1-format. I had - before upgrading to win 10 - a Win7-system with Office 365 2013 and then 2016, whereas Office 365 is terminated meanwhile. In fact I installed MS Office 2007 in March 2017 only for the purpose to get WinExplorer preview of my numerous ODT 1.2 -for-

matted files, which came into existence since about End of 2012. But that did not help. Before and after having installed MS Office 2007, I could and can preview and navigate through ODT Documents in ODF-1.0/1.1 format (but not in 1.2-format). See also [Issue] OpenOffice 3.4 files and Windows 7 preview pane (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum . As I understand the discussion at AOO-bugzilla 107602 – framework: Implement ODF document preview for Windows Explorer , especially at the end (comments 16 and 17), there may be a bug in

… ODF-1.2 code relating to the code-created manifest.xml-files under ODF 1.2-format?

PS: Before I installed MS Office 2007 in March 2017, my MS Office 365 2013/2016 had been terminated about one year ago. Directly before installing MS Office 2007 my Windows Explorer Preview Pane had already full function for ODF 1.0/1.1-formatted (means: old) ODT-files, but not ODT 1.2-files.

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66923

To read the i#107602 correctly, you should first read its title and initial description: they say “Implement ODF document preview for Windows Explorer”, “The current explorer extensions … do not support the preview of ODF documents within the Windows Explorer preview window”. That’s from 2009, and say about 3.1 (see OpenOffice.org - Wikipedia).

Then, comments 1 and 2 confirm it, and comment 3 says that v.3.2 doesn’t have it also. Comment 5 (from a user) says about existing preview, but comment 6 clarifies that it only has preview if MSO is installed. Comment 10 (form 2016) confirm the absence of the preview, and note that it’s OOo/AOO Bugzilla, and not LO, so no ODF 1.2 there.Comment 11 further clarifies that this is with Win10!

In comment 13, orcmid (one of project leads) misunderstands the problem, saying about thumbnail preview that works since 3.2, but comment 14 clarifies things for him (which he accepts in comment 15), but he says that there’s no possibility to add this yet not existing feature. Comment 14 says also, that 2 computers without MSO only shows thumbnail preview!

In he meanwhile, comment 12 offers a file to “fix” the preview of ODF 1.2 (which confuses orcmid). Later, in comment 16, this is explained that the problem is that MSO 2007-2010 preview is unable to show such files, and that it’s because MSO preview stops as soon as it sees “1.2” in the manifest. So, the “fix” to allow old MSO preview to show such files is to put 1.1 into the ODF files, so it is not a OOo/AOO/LO preview!

Sorry to have to teach you reading.

If you have a working preview “before installing MSO 2007”, then that must be some other software (not OOo/AOO/LO) that offers that preview. OOo/AOO/LO don’t and didn’t provide this functionality. Never. Ever. This is all that to be said about that. No code inside that makes that happen. If you see something different, then you have another SW that makes that, so again: NOT OOo/AOO/LO.

Okay, so all that is actually missing, would be a LO- or AOO- standalone preview-handler for ODF-1.0/1.1 and 1.2-files? In the meanwhile I tried to implement the microsoft windows preview-handler for txt-files using regedit-tool (following a workaround found on the net), but that produced a preview of command-speech oft the odt-1.2-files in WExplorer Preview Pane. Thx for Your effort to help me! (I am no native english-speaker).

PS: Perhaps the correct word above instead of “command-speech” would be “machine-speech”, what I saw from ODT-1.2-files in WExplorer Preview Pane having in the Windows-registry implemented TXT-file-preview-handler from MS Windows for ODT-files.

Add folder to windows indexing and that is it

… and this does not address the question in any way.