Thumbnail preview (Office Open XML files)
Hello, I noticed that since an update of Office 2016 (Office 16 and Office 365), the thumbnail preview disepear on Explorer for Word, Excel and Powpoint files (Office Open XML only : docx, xlsx e...
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I'm on Windows 10, Surface Book, build for Office ProPlus 64 bit : 16.0.8229.2073
Yes there is .emf file on the docx.
Indeed, I saved in another file, as you said everytime for "refresh" the file.
It's strange, because :
- if I install an older version of Office 16, the thumbnails are displayed;
- if I use the last version of Office 16, and I saved a document as a word 97-2003 document, the thumbnails is generated :
Yup, it seems to be an issue with some of the newer builds. I'm on FR for Deferred, build 8201 and I see erratic behavior with Word files. Excel and PowerPoint seem to be working as expected, but for Word only some files generate a thumbnail. I think it's safe to say it's a bug, you can open a support case to report it.
In your case, the size of the emf file is suspiciously small. Extract/open the file, does it actually reflect the content of the document?
About the size of the emf file, everything is normal. I only created a Word document .docx with a blue circle (shape).
I'm also on FR, maybe this problem doesn't exist for other client from other versions...
