live icon preview

I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?

How do you mean by Live icon preview? Do you mean like having a folder, with a little "page" inside it showing the preview of the file?
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--: Original message follows :-- "Danny Kaey" <Danny Kaey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?

no... I mean the "live" icon preview feature you saw in all the MS presentations... instead of the MS Word image file, i see an actual snap-shot of the real document as the file image...
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

How do you mean by Live icon preview? Do you mean like having a folder, with a little "page" inside it showing the preview of the file?
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--: Original message follows :-- "Danny Kaey" <Danny Kaey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?

You have to enable thumbnail preview in Word for that document, you have to do this manually for each file. If you are using Word 2000 to 2003, open the Word document > click File > Properties > Summary (tab) > check "Save preview picture". This applicable to Excel and PowerPoint also.
In Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007, click the Office File Menu > Finish > Properties > Summary (tab) > check "Save preview picture".
The Office 2007 team is said to be working on a feature that will automatically convert certain Office files to thumbnails. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Danny Kaey" wrote in message

no... I mean the "live" icon preview feature you saw in all the MS presentations... instead of the MS Word image file, i see an actual snap-shot of the real document as the file image...
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
How do you mean by Live icon preview? Do you mean like having a folder, with a little "page" inside it showing the preview of the file?
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--: Original message follows :-- "Danny Kaey" <Danny Kaey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?

Andre, THANK YOU!!!
yep, thats it...
;-)
you would think they'd have that done automatically in the background... why does MS sleep??? who greenlights these projects?
what are they doing with billions in RD spending???
so sad to see this company not perform to expectations.

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

You have to enable thumbnail preview in Word for that document, you have to do this manually for each file. If you are using Word 2000 to 2003, open the Word document > click File > Properties > Summary (tab) > check "Save preview picture". This applicable to Excel and PowerPoint also.
In Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007, click the Office File Menu > Finish Properties > Summary (tab) > check "Save preview picture".
The Office 2007 team is said to be working on a feature that will automatically convert certain Office files to thumbnails. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Danny Kaey" wrote in message no... I mean the "live" icon preview feature you saw in all the MS presentations... instead of the MS Word image file, i see an actual snap-shot of the real document as the file image...
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
How do you mean by Live icon preview? Do you mean like having a folder, with a little "page" inside it showing the preview of the file?
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Danny Kaey" <Danny Kaey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?

Actually on my system PDFs do show the live icon preview when selected in an explorer window, whereas Word 2003 documents don't.
Cheers
"Danny Kaey" <Danny Kaey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable this great feature?