Preview picture not showing up on saved powerpoints

[pdowning]

Hello,

I just upgraded to Office 2008 from Office 2004 and have a question. Whenever I would save a powerpoint presentation in Office 2004, I would always see a preview picture of the first slide to represent the document instead of the default orange powerpoint preview picture. Now in Office 2008, I only get the orange powerpoint preview picture and not a preview of the presentation.
I went to the preferences and to the "save" tab and there is a check mark next to, "save preview picture" but I am still not able to see a preview picture of my presentation.
Is anyone else having this problem? This is only happening in Powerpoint too. I am able to see a preview picture of Word and Excel fine.

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[CyberTaz]

Where are you seeing the PPt logo preview rather than the 1st slide preview?
If in a Finder window, I believe that's normal - IIRC, OS X doesn't display
PPt Previews in Finder windows. The Previews only show up in the PPt File>
Open dialog.

Are they not displaying preview there?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replying to my thread.
I am using a Finder window to see my powerpoint presentations, as I always have. When I would use Office 2004 for Mac, I was given a preview of the 1st slide in the finder window instead of the default.
If I look at some of my older powerpoints, ones I saved with Office 2004, I get the 1st slide preview. However, if I open the older powerpoints and resave them in Office 2008, I lose the 1st slide preview and get stuck with the default powerpoint preview.

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm not sure what to tell you - I really don't mean to be argumentative, but
this is what I'm experiencing in OS X 10.4.11 with both Office 2004 & 2008:

First, the version of Office makes no difference - Finder windows are a
function of the OS & behave the same regardless of what programs are
installed. My understanding - pretty much confirmed by Mac Help - is that
the preview pane of an actual Finder window will display a preview of an
*image* file [JPEG, TIFF, etc.] if it can (assuming the image has a
preview). For other file types the preview displayed is the program's icon.
I don't remember it ever being different, although there are some
"exceptions" - text files being one. Bottom line, though, is that if you are
accurately remembering differently the change must have been imposed by the
OS somewhere along the line without being noticed at the time - no version
of Office can do anything to modify Finder's behavior.

In any given program, however, the window produced by File> Open enables the
preview to display for file types recognized by that program (again,
assuming the file was saved with a preview). In fact, Word 2004's Open
dialog window will display PPt 2004 previews. So what I'm finding is:

1- In PPt 2008 File> Open I see previews of any PPt file saved with a
preview regardless of which version created it,

2- Older PPt files saved in 2008 PPTX format are no exception, but

3- Once saved as PPTX, PPt 2004 cannot display the preview - which is to be
expected because of the difference in file type, and

4- Under no circumstances does Finder, itself, display a PPt preview.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Guest]

Well I guess I am still confused. Your explanation does make sense, and I can follow your examples on my computer. However, I am still getting some different results as well. I wish I could email you some pictures so I can explain better what I am seeing.
I don't know if its a problem with Leopard OSX 10.5 or Office 2008. Everything was showing up as normal until I installed Office 2008

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for replying to my thread.
I am using a Finder window to see my
powerpoint presentations, as I always have. When I would use Office 2004 for
Mac, I was given a preview of the 1st slide in the finder window instead of
the default.
If I look at some of my older powerpoints, ones I saved with
Office 2004, I get the 1st slide preview. However, if I open the older
powerpoints and resave them in Office 2008, I lose the 1st slide preview and
get stuck with the default powerpoint preview.

One thought: In previous versions, if you look at File, Properties, Summary
tab, there's a checkbox that sets whether PPT should save a preview image in
the file.

Check to see if that's still checked, assuming the feature's still there in
2008.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Guest]

I did verify that when powerpoint saves a file it also saves a preview image so I don't think that is it

Is this feature working for everyone else?

 

[Guest]

It seems as though there is a compatibility problem between the finder preview in Leopard and the new office 2008.
Hopefully this will get resolved with a Leopard update or Office 2008 updated.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Steve -

FYI, Yes, the File> Properties feature was retained & unchanged.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Guest]

So if things were unchanged with Office 2008, why does Leopard not show a preview like it did with Office 2004?
It seems something had to have changed for Leopard not to be able to recognize and show a preview icon like it did in Office 2004.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

I think that when Apple introduced Cover Flow to finder that they overwrite
the preview picture with something that coverflow needs.

If I switch the view to coverflow in Finder then I see the previews. Is this
the same for you?

-Jim

So if things were unchanged with Office 2008, why does Leopard not show a
preview like it did with Office 2004?
It seems something had to have changed for Leopard not to be able to recognize
and show a preview icon like it did in Office 2004.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Guest]

When I switch to coverflow in finder, I still only see the default powerpoint presentation icon. I am not sure it has anything to do with coverflow because I was able to get a preview when using Office 2004 and Leopard.
I think this problem is only with powerpoint presentations as well because in the exact same finder folder I have a Word document and the Word document shows me a preview of the document while the powerpoint presentations are the default orange icon.

 

[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

I think this is due to the same "quick-look" issue discussed in the
..mac.office forum:

------ Forwarded Message
From: John McGhie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:20:57 +0930
Subject: Re: No 'Quick Look' using Office 2008 Powerpoint files in Leopard

Yeah, it's broken. We're waiting on a fix from Microsoft or Apple.

Sorry: It's a bug.

I cannot use the 'quick look' feature on any powerpoints saved using Mac
Office 2008. I am saving the files using the .PPT format, but they are not
generating any previews when I select the file and hit the space bar. I have
tried installing Office on 2 Macs and they both exhibited the same lack of
preview issue.

Anybody have any ideas?

------ End Forwarded Message


Date: 1/17/08 4:32 PM / From: "(e-mail address removed)"

Hello,

I just upgraded to Office 2008 from Office 2004 and have a question. Whenever
I would save a powerpoint presentation in Office 2004, I would always see a
preview picture of the first slide to represent the document instead of the
default orange powerpoint preview picture. Now in Office 2008, I only get the
orange powerpoint preview picture and not a preview of the presentation.
I went to the preferences and to the "save" tab and there is a check mark next
to, "save preview picture" but I am still not able to see a preview picture
of my presentation.
Is anyone else having this problem? This is only happening in Powerpoint too.
I am able to see a preview picture of Word and Excel fine.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft

 

[Guest]

Since this is a known bug between Leopard and Office 2008, when will it get fixed?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve -

FYI, Yes, the File> Properties feature was retained & unchanged.

Ta!