WV: Setting Up Quick View on Windows 95/Windows NT to Preview Word 2000 Files

• Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000

SUMMARY

The Quick View utility that ships with Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 cannot preview files created in any of the Microsoft Office 2000 programs. By contrast, the Quick View utility that ships with Microsoft Windows 98 can preview Office 2000 files.

If you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, you can use the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 to preview Word 2000 files. This article describes how you can modify the options in Windows Explorer so that you can use the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000.

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 the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000. The viewer is contained in a self-extracting .exe file called Wd97vw32.exe on the Microsoft World Wide Web site. For additional information about obtaining and installing Word Viewer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q165908 WV: How to Obtain Microsoft Word Viewers

1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, and then click Windows Explorer.



2. On the View menu, click Folder Options, and then click the File 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. 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 box, 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.

Q158748 OFF97: Unable to Preview File Using Quick View

Additional query words: quick view

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo