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No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 18 Jan 2025 07:58
by TestMeister
Win 11, XY 26.70.0600
XY Preview works for all files that I have tried including Word and Excel
Mouse Down Blow Up works for text, bitmaps, PDF, rtf, doc but when I try with Word-docx or Excel-xls, the cursor just flashes the hour glass and nothing is displayed.
Are these file format not supported?
Re: No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 18 Jan 2025 11:47
by admin
MDBU for these file types shows the thumbnail (thumbnail handler), not the preview (preview handler). Do you get thumbnails for them?
Re: No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 18 Jan 2025 20:29
by TestMeister
No, just a quick flash of the hourglass. I do get the hover info box.
In the Preview, all files render fine
MDBU does not work for xls or docx and for PDF only shows a mini image.(To get the below screen shot I had to use my camera)
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Re: No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 19 Jan 2025 11:57
by Horst
TestMeister wrote: ↑18 Jan 2025 20:29
No, just a quick flash of the hourglass. I do get the hover info box.
In the Preview, all files render fine
Confirmed
but docx doesn't show any preview for me.
Re: No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 19 Jan 2025 12:15
by admin
I was wrong. At least by default MDBU on Word or Excel shows the beginning of the textual contents, not the thumbnail. Depending on your IFilters you have to check
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Fall back to IFilters of the other bitness.
Sigh & Yeah! All that bitness trouble will soon be history.

Re: No Word or Excel files with MDBU
Posted: 19 Jan 2025 21:07
by TestMeister
That was it!
The Office files now show a text version which is fine
My PDFs now appear in full display.
All except the PDF sample I sent, it still only renders as a small image. I'm not sure what's different about that file and just my luck the one file that has some odd exception
Wasn't aware of the IFilters issue but there is a good explanation in the help.
Many thanks!