Setting Up Quick View on Windows 95/Windows NT to Preview Word 2000 Files

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Windows Explorer lets you customize the items in the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a file. For those file formats that cannot be opened in the Windows Quick View utility, you can use Word Viewer to preview files by using Quick View.

Before you follow these steps, download and install the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000. The viewer is contained in a self-extracting .exe file called Wd97vw32.exe on the Microsoft World Wide Web site. For additional information about obtaining and installing Word Viewer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

165908 WV: How to Obtain Microsoft Word Viewers

After the Setup program is completed, the Word Viewer is listed on the shortcut menu when you right-click a file that has a .doc file extension or WordView file type.

To change the shortcut menu so that Word Viewer starts when you click Quick View on the shortcut menu, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, and then click Windows Explorer.
2. On the View menu, click Folder Options, and then click the File Types tab.
3. Under Registered file types, select Microsoft Word Document, and then click Edit.
4. In the Edit File Type dialog box, follow these steps:
   1. Click to clear the Enable Quick View option.
   2. Under Actions, click WordView, and then click Edit.
   3. Select the path and the file name that are listed in the Application used to perform action box, and then press CTRL+C to copy it to the Clipboard. Click Cancel.
5. In the Edit File Type dialog box, follow these steps:
   1. Click New.
   2. Under Action, type &Quick View. The ampersand (&) indicates that the following letter (in this case, Q) can be used as a shortcut key to run the command.
   3. In the Application used to perform action box, press CTRL+V.
   4. Click OK.
6. In the Edit File Type dialog box, under Actions, select WordView, and then click Remove. When you are prompted to remove WordView from the menu, click Yes.
7. Click OK two times.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

158748 OFF97: Unable to Preview File Using Quick View

Note You can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view documents that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in Microsoft Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.