WV: Setting Up Quick View to Preview Word Files with Word Viewer

Q186014

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SUMMARY

The Quick View utility shipped with Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 cannot preview files created in any of the Microsoft Office 97 programs.

This article describes how you can modify the options in Windows Explorer so that you can use the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 to preview files.


MORE INFORMATION

Windows Explorer lets you customize the items in the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a file. For those file formats that cannot be opened in the Windows Quick View utility, you can use Word Viewer to preview files using Quick View.

Before you use the following procedure, download and install Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000. Word Viewer 97-2000 is contained in a self-extracting .exe file called Wd97vwr32.exe on the Microsoft World Wide Web site. For additional information about obtaining and installing Word 97-2000 Viewer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q165908 WV: How to Obtain Microsoft Word Viewers
After the Setup program has completed, Word Viewer 97-2000 is listed on the shortcut menu when you right-click a file that has a .doc or file extension or WordView file type.

To change the shortcut menu so that Word Viewer is started when you click Quick View on the shortcut menu, follow these steps:
  1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Program, and then click Windows Explorer.


  2. On the View menu, click Folder Options, and then click the Files Types tab.


  3. Under Registered File Types, select Microsoft Word Document, and then click Edit.


  4. In the Edit File Type dialog box, follow these steps:
    1. Click to clear the Enable Quick View option.


    2. Under Actions, click WordView, and then click Edit.


    3. Select the path and file name listed in the "Application used to perform action" box, and press CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard. Click Cancel.




  5. In the Edit File Type dialog box, follow these steps:
    1. Click New.


    2. Under Action, type "&Quick View" (without the quotation marks). The ampersand (&) indicates that the following letter (in this case Q) can be used as a shortcut key to run the command.


    3. In the "Application used to perform action," press CTRL+V.


    4. Click OK.




  6. In the Edit File Type dialog box, under Actions, select WordView and then click Remove. When you are prompted to remove WordView from the menu, click Yes.


  7. Click OK twice.


For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q158748 OFF97: Unable to Preview File Using Quick View

Additional query words: word97 word8

Keywords : kbdta
Issue type : kbinfo
Technology : kbWordSearch kbPTNotAssigned kbWordViewerSearch


Last Reviewed: July 29, 1999
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