@Regina: I don’t get any Preview … I’ll get the message “No Preview available.”
You can specify in the document whether a preview image is to be created.
Menu File > Properties > General
Yes, all my docs have always been enabled. And still are. Thanks.
AFAIK you need to have a Microsoft product installed that can read the file.
You might like to see this old discussion, is there a way to preview a libre doc or spreadsheet in the windows explorer preview pane? . I don’t know if anything has changed since then as I would not use preview anyway, preferring a logical filing structure and appropriate filenames
Maybe one has to ask ChatGPT about the philosophical difference between need and requirement regarding software dependencies and functionality and whether it’s a necessity to understand the nonsense it generates. In any case, it’s possibly true that you don’t need MS-Word to see the files in the Preview Pane, but it might be true that with MS-Word installed you may actually preview them there.
That’s what you get for asking a bullshit generator.
@Regina In your screenshot it’s clearly viesible that .odt file previews in the pane are possible. May I ask you if you have any Microsoft products installed that support that preview, e.g. Word?
I see the same as Regina. Your answer may be: Yes, as Win11 is by Microsoft and no, I neither installed any MS-Office, nor started any of the given tools (except Edge to download Firefox).
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On Win10 the preview area shows the same icon-size preview as the file-list. (On that computer I don’t see a preview of .doc-files, but a small one for .odt. And TXT, BAT and pdf are shown readable like in Win11)
Yes, I have a MS Office 365.
It’s best to check an ODS. It would necessarily show some controls in the preview area (tabs); and there, you would be able to easily see which app has generated them.
Good tip. The tabs in the preview are the same as in Excel 365, e.g. a colored tab is rendered with gradient, the horizontal scroll bar is separated by a dotted line from the rest.
Hi,
the explorer preview shows the thumbnail.png stored in your .odt. I tested that by replacing it with a different image. So no external renderer or M$ installation should be required.
@Huskey you should check your Tools▸Options▸LibreOffice▸Advanced▸Expert Configuration▸ /org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document▸GenerateThumbnail option. It should be set to true.
taken from How do I turn on thumbnail previews in LibreOffice Writer?
Open Document Sheet, so a file from Calc.
At that time seemingly nothing was changed, as I was testing a mini-PC with the Windows 11 Home the vendor delivered in my guest-network. So should be stock Windows…
With a standard 30 day free trial of MS Office?