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After upgrading to the 3.4 release I am no longer able to view files in the Windows preview pane, worked in all previous releases.
I get a message that says "This file cannot be previewed".
Works fine on any OpenOffice 3.3 files that I have.

Hi and welcome to the forum!

See [Issue] Confused about previews (Issue 107602). You should subscribe and vote for it (up to 2 votes per issue).

Or maybe this one, filled against 3.4:

Bug 119940 - Document thumbnails not shown in Windows file manager

I am not talking about a thumbnail view, but a complete view of the file contents displayed in the right hand pane of explorer, I have OpenOffice 3.3 still installed on another computer with Windows 7 and the preview works fine, after upgrading this function does not work. Any file that is still 3.3 ver. works properly. If I open the file and save it then the preview function ceases to work.

I have the same issue

when I go to open a file, the preview pane has the message "no preview available"

Worked fine on previous versions

Hi and Hello,

if I may, I would like to extend this thread a bit.

I'd install OpenOffice 3.4 today on my Win7 64-bit.
Before I used to work with OpenOffice 3.3 and predecessor for many years - and got a couple of hundreds or even thousands of documents,
I'm using the "Description" function in the "Properties of [Name]" of every single file, to find my document
in the Windows Explorer faster and more precise. Very useful for me.

After installing 3.4 this view is gone as well. Can't see any "Description" anymore.

So I'm back to 3.3.....

By the way: Thank you very much for all your hard work and dedication!
For many years now, I'm very grateful to be able to use OpenOffice!

Greetings from Germany
Bernd

I would like to roll back to the 3.3 release but can't find it, anyone know where I can get it.

See this post for example: [Solved] Unknown Error when opening old file with Apache.
You'll have to reset again your user profile (or reactivate the old one from 3.3 if you had kept a backup).

swb711 wrote:I would like to roll back to the 3.3 release but can't find it, anyone know where I can get it.

V3.3 is here http://www.openoffice.org/download/legacy/index.html

Thank you for your help.
After rolling back to 3.3 and updating my documents the preview is working fine. Again any file that is 3.4 version does not
preview, open them with 3.3 and modify them and the preview once again works fine. The 3.4 version has a bug that needs to be addressed
I will not update again until I know this issue has been resolved.

You should vote for the bug report or at least subscribe to the cc list to be informed of further developments.

I would , but I must confess that I have no idea of how to do that..

I have used OpenOffice and Windows 7 since June 2010 on a new computer. Presumably OpenOffice 3.3 initially but since Oct. 2012 3.4.1.

Throughout the whole period I have never had a preview of an OpenOffice file although pdf's jpg's do display.

I have read this thread and wonder if there is any new information since the last posting in July 2012.

See the bug report for that.
NB: if you add your vote (up to 2), it should confirm automatically the bug IIRC.