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That's what I was afraid of.<br />
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Thanks for your quick response.<br />
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That's what I was afraid of.

Thanks for your quick response.



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Windows 7 MS Explorer windows have an icon called &quot;show preview pane&quot;.<br />
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It is a nice feature and windows 7 has preview handlers for things like PDFs, JPGs etc.<br />
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But, it does not provide handlers for .doc, .xls etc unless I install Office 2007 or higher.<br />
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If I install Open Office, will I get this functionality, or would I still need to buy Office 2007?
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Windows 7 MS Explorer windows have an icon called "show preview pane".

It is a nice feature and windows 7 has preview handlers for things like PDFs, JPGs etc.

But, it does not provide handlers for .doc, .xls etc unless I install Office 2007 or higher.

If I install Open Office, will I get this functionality, or would I still need to buy Office 2007?

Does OpenOffice allow Windows 7 preview pane to preview .doc and .xls files?

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