A Preview for Libre Office files

[Tanker IP]

I use Libre Office (LO). I do not have Word installed on my computer. When i select .odt files, the XY preview window shows "Cannot Preview" . I wish it did. I have read some forum posts about setting a correct odt version and tried that to no avail. I do not use Open Office. I read somewhere that work on OO ceased in 2014, so LO is the only one in current development.
Some of the forum posts seem to think that the problem rests in Windows (I use Win 10). But still I have not found a solution.

Anyone know?

[Horst]

There is no odt previewer from Libre Office or others.

I preview doc, docx and odt in XY with a Total Commander plugin (ULister),
which uses the Oracle Viewer technology.
This gives a real formatted preview of this file types and many more.

Many file managers have adapted the Total Commander interface for plugins.
Also, the Oracle viewers can be used in applications

Unfortunately, Don refuses to add such 3party compatibility.
So XY is limited to its own native text based preview of some Office files
or OS provided, and 3rd party preview handlers.

[Garonne]

I read somewhere that work on OO ceased in 2014, so LO is the only one in current development.

Well... the latest Version of OpenOffice is 4.1.15 released in Dec 2023, and the latest news post is from April 2024... That's definitely not very recent/active, but definitely far from being dead since 2014, too...

Honestly, I use both...