ThumbsPlus asks me how often I want to do program updates every time it runsĪll I see are red Xes instead of thumbnails My preferences or customizations aren't being saved I get an error about a missing component (DLL), MSVCP110.DLL or MSVCR110.DLL The same setting in Excel and PowerPoint documents is less obvious.Common errors during installation, uninstall, and upgrades The ‘Save Thumbnail’ setting is held in each Word document within the word /settings.xml file. However, Office would overwrite it with a proper thumbnail the next time the document was saved. You could tamper with thumbnail.emf inside an Office document, to insert an image which had no connection to the documents real contents. EMF is the ‘Windows Metafile’ image format that’s still in use after over two decades. If you dig inside a modern Office document the thumbnail is at When a thumbnail is saved, Office takes an image and saves it in the Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. PowerPoint: the first slide in the deck, the entire slide view.
Office saves the ‘first’ page of each document as the thumbnailĮxcel: the visible/ selected worksheet when saved, using the view/zoom setting at that time. Please let us know if you can figure it out. We can’t see how to turn thumbnails on for an existing document without going to Save As. To save a thumbnail for a single document, look on Save As dialog (not the ‘Save As’ or ‘Save a copy’ pane) for ‘Save Thumbnail’. Microsoft has never bothered to move or duplicate this option to Options | Save where it belongs. Why? It seems to be a forgotten remnant of much earlier versions of Office. The ‘Save Thumbnails …’ option is the exception. You’re right, Advanced Properties is supposed to be settings and info for the current document only. Hang on, I hear you cry! All these settings are document properties, Office says so, not overall settings for Word, Excel or PowerPoint. In PowerPoint the same option is called ‘Save preview picture’. It’s hiding at File | Info | Properties | Advanced Properties | Summary | Save Thumbnails for all Documents.ĭown the bottom of the Summary dialog is the option ‘Save Thumbnails for all Documents’. It’s not in File | Options where you’d expect it to be. You won’t find the ‘Save Thumbnails for all documents’ option anywhere obvious. Saving Thumbnails for all Office documents Microsoft used to call them preview images. Thumbnails are the small images that appear in File Explorer instead of the standard icons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. We’ll dig into how thumbnails work for some nerdy extra detail. Adding thumbnail or preview image for Word, Excel or PowerPoint Office documents is easy, though you won’t find the choice anywhere obvious.
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