Same problem w/Home Premium. Did microsoft get back to you w/a resolution ?
"Willraine" wrote:
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> I had the same problem with Ultimate. Bought a Gateway system with Home
> Premium & a trial version of Office 2007. Bought the Ultimate upgrade & the
> Student/Teacher of office 2007. I could preview text (.TXT) files but no
> office related files. I contacted Microsoft and spent 4+ hours with them
> this morning to no avail. They are still looking into it.
>
> Didn't want to wait for them so continued troubleshooting myself. I
> COMPLETELY REMOVED OFFICE (I thought) and after reboot manually removed
> remnants of office program related files. (Did a search from windows
> explorer for "office." It showed document files as well. I DELETED ALL
> PROGRAM RELATED FILES, including start menu & desktop shortcuts. I, then
> rebooted again.
>
> After restart (just for kicks), I reopened the Programs & Features option of
> Control Panel and to my chagrin discovered a version of office still
> installed. (It was Office student/teacher.) My guess is that the first
> uninstall removed only the original trial version (which I thought was
> overwritten by the student/teacher upgrade.) I ran the uninstall again.
>
> After restart, I ran "Disk Cleanup" & "Disk Defragmenter" to ensure a clean
> system. I, then, rebooted and reinstalled Office 2007. IT WORKED
> IMMEDIATELY. I can NOW PREVEIW ALL FILES within office and windows explorer.
>
> Hope this helps. THE PREVIEW DOES WORK WITH VISTA ULTIMATE!!! Microsoft is
> supposed to call me back on their progress tomorrow. I will post what they
> say. Maybe they will come out with some kind of patch??????!!!!!
>
> "BBA" wrote:
> Quote:
> > I am using Vista Ultimate. I am unable to preview any office document (Word,
> > Excel, Powerpoint 2003 or 2007) in the preview pane. I have the preview pane
> > opened from organize->layout->Previewpane. I have also checked on the "show
> > preview handlers" under the folder properties. Can anybody help?
> > --
> > BBA