Viewing Word Docs in HTMLView?

[Postkutscher]

The addon office does work well however I can't see word 97 doc files with it.
There is always a message:

Microsoft Word 97 Conversion
Unable to convert graphic. Continue with document conversion?

This is a little offtop here in this thread and therefore please don`t ask me for more details, but accordingly to the readme of the office plugin you need to download or copy from MS Office 97 folder some MS convertors into your plugin folder. Please read the readme.txt for more info.

As for HtmlView.
1. Try to open doc file with IE. Is it works?
2. Look at the detectstring of the plugin in your wincmd.ini
3. Look at the *.doc extention in your plugin`s ini.

[petermad]

Where can I activate IIRC activeX in explorer?

IIRC is short for: "If I remember/recall correctly"

[raytc]

Well no way... it didn't work. tnx anyway.
It seems there is no way to see ms word97 doc files using the office or htmlview (or whatever) plugin.

[Boofo]

2raytc,

That is strange. I'm sitting here viewing a .DOC file with the office plugin just fine.

[raytc]

2raytc,

That is strange. I'm sitting here viewing a .DOC file with the office plugin just fine.

Boofo,

I see all doc files except the (old) doc files created with ms word97.

It pops-up a message:
Microsoft Word 97 Conversion
Unable to convert graphic. Continue with document conversion?

[Boofo]

2raytc,

I get that message. too. For some reason it doesn't pick up graphics. But the rest of the file displays fine.

[Boofo]

2raytc,

I know this thread is kindof old but I have been playing with this plugin and have figured some things out for it. First, where the plugin is in the listing will make a difference, too. I have it BEFORE the Office and Office 97 plugins. It seems to load whatever program is set for it in the Lister window and QucikView. For PDF files, it loads the PDF in Foxit Phantom in the Lister Window and QuickView. Same with the DOC and DOCX files. It really works pretty slick now that I have it set halfway right.

Did it ever start working right for you?

[nn1k3]

I'm stuck. In my hands, HTMLView takes about 10 seconds to quick-view a doc xls ppt or pdf.
Other TC users seen to be happy with HTMView. Is it that clunky in your hands?

FYI Original setting:
HTMLExtensions=htm;html;shtml;plg;mht;xml;xsl;php;php2;php3;xhtml;pl;asp;htt

I tried this:
HTMLExtensions=asp;csv;djv;djvu;doc;docx;dot;dotx;htm;html;htt;mht;pdf;php;php2;php3;pl;plg;ppt;shtml;svg;wbk;wps;xhtml;xls;xlsx;xml;xps;xsl

[nn1k3]

Why are others using HTMLview rather than IEview for quick-viewing non-html files? I read that HTMLview is like IEview minus non-html functionality.

FYI These wlx plugins seem to work well for me, in this order:
Office.wlx for DOC
Office2007 0.0.4.0 for DOCX XLSX PPTX
excellence 1.20.0.9 for XLS
pdfview 1.08.0 for PDF
ieview 1.94.1.0 for PPT

[fenix_productions]

2nn1k3
Almost the same set of plugins here (with exception for SumatraPDF). Long ago I had found HTMLview to be too slow.

[dott]

HTMLView and IEView are limited by third party apps to open a file, like Microsoft Office monsters apps.
In my pc don´t see any difference between plain office and htmlview<=>office in terms of speed.

[nn1k3]

2dott: I read your note as saying that HTMLView and IEView should both be equally slow, and that you find HTMLView to be no faster than just opening the mystery doc in Word. Well, I agree!

It is bizarre that the title of this forum topic is "Viewing Word Docs in HTMLView" given that you and fenix and I conclude that neither IEView nor HTMLView is suitable for quick-viewing Word Docs. I also conclude that they are not suitable for pdfs either, despite some messages above.

I find that IEView is by far the best choice for powerpoint ppt. Very fast. (HTMLView lacks BlockFocus.) FYI I made these changes to my copy of IEView.ini

[options]
AllowScripting=0
ShowImages=0
ShowVideos=0
PlaySounds=0
AllowActiveX=0
AllowPopups=0
SavePositionOnExit=0
[BlockFocus]
; Set value of group to '1' if focus "flees" from panel, when opening file from this group.
powerpoint=1

Finally, let me share a tip I just heard from Christian: when you have multiple addins and you need to know which one is "working" by responding to Control-Q quick-view, you can just hit F3 instead of Control-Q and look at the options. Sorry to belabor the obvious for most of you.

[dott]

Suitable or not is a matter of opinion, I find very useful the possibility of view office documents in quick view panel regardless the slowness of the process.
I still find useful view pdf, through foxit reader ieplugin<=>htmlview, in some cases were sumatraplugin don't feed my needs, an so on..

[fenix_productions]

2dott
It is nice to see documents in TC panel but if the time needed for it is the same as opening default editor I choose the second solution because it renders them better. So when I want quality I prefer to load full Office. If I want quick preview I choose plugins other than the one from title. And for this I agree to lose the beauty.

As for PDF files: at the beginning I had HTMLview with Foxit addon and it worked great until toolbar issues appeared. I switched to PDFX addon and was using it for about 2 years. Now SumatraPDF plugin is all I need. But if there will be even quicker plugin for that with basic text* only I can skip Sumatra.

*) All Ghost Script related WLXes are not quick enough for me.

[patxiku]

2nn1k3

Please, try txQuickView. It doesn't need Word for reading .DOC files and even the new .DOCX file extension. And the visual result is pretty enogth. See this topic for more info.

Not a plugin, but very fast and accurate is SoftMaker's TextMaker Viewer.