[mso] Re: Office Suite File Management
- From: "Beth Lee" <callibeth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:03:27 -0500
I've always been curious about this, so I looked around a little. I'm
sorry I don't have help for the files you've already created, but here's
information going forward, from
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=131077&seqNum=9&rl=1:
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No Preview in Common Dialog Boxes
I selected Preview from the drop-down menu of views in an Office common
dialog box, but when I click a file in the pane on the left, Windows
displays the words Preview not available instead of showing my file.
The preview pane shows a static snapshot of the document as it existed the
last time you saved it. By default, this option is not selected because it
tends to add roughly 60KB to every file that you create. To make this
preview picture available, you must choose File, Properties and check the
Save Preview Picture box on the Summary tab. You can do this at any time
with a Word document or PowerPoint presentation. However, this option is
effective with Excel workbooks only if you use it when you first create
the file. Checking this box on an Excel workbook after you've saved it
with this option off has no effect at all. To enable the preview, check
the box, save the file under a new name, and use Windows Explorer to
delete the old version and rename the new one with the old name.
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I'm not sure it's worth 60kb to have this preview available for each file,
though.
Regards,
Beth Lee
Tallahasee, Florida
www.callibeth.com
callibeth.blogspot.com
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of LarrysPCRemedies@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:01 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Office Suite File Management
Hello,
I've got literally hundreds of Office Suite files ... Word and Excel. I
would
like to perform some "pruning" of these files. Opening them up one by one
WILL be a chore. It would help if I a program that, like a photo managment
program, creates a "Thumbnail" of the first page of each document,
spreadsheet,
etc, so that I could visually identify what each file contains. (P.S., I
do have
a naming standard for the filenames, e.g., yyyymmddsomefiledistriptor.ext,
but
like they say a picture is worth a thousand words)
Does anyone know of an application that would: 1) look for files of a
particular type, (e.g., .doc), in a direcory, 2) extract the first page of
each file
it finds, reduces that page to a thumbnail, and 3) print the thumbnails
and
filenames in some appropriate matrix for a quick visual review?
I await in anticipation ...
,,,,,,,
Ô¿Ô¬ Larry
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