-=PCTechTalk=- Re: thumbnails of images in documents

wow!  Thanks.. I'll give it a shot...if it doesn't work in word, maybe I can 
just start keeping them as ppts.. thanx!

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From: "Disastar" <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:13 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: thumbnails of images in documents


>I found a way to add a thumbnail of the first page (not embedded pic) of
> your MS-Office docs.  I hope this will suffice.  If sounds like it is
> possible to make a program to make the thumbnail of an embedded pic, but I
> haven't been able to find the code to do so yet.  Here is what I found:
>
> "For Office documents to display a preview, Microsoft Office needs to 
> embed
> a thumbnail image in the file when it is saved. This feature is enabled by
> default for PowerPoint presentations but not other file types. For other
> Office applications, go to File->Properties and select the Save Preview
> Picture check box at the bottom for each individual file. This can be done
> for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project. If you experiment with this you
> will find that some thumbnails are more useful than others. Most Word
> documents show up as rows of squiggly lines. (What do you expect when the
> font has been shrunk to 2pt?)"
>
> OK, I do see code for saving a larger pic of that thumbnail to disk which
> might be useful to you if you open the pic or if you view the folder in
> Filmstrip mode.  It may be awhile before I get a chance to turn that code
> into something useful though.
>
> 


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