preview pane | Techerator https://techerator.com Techerator is an excellent source of tips, guides, and reviews about software, web apps, technology, mobile phones, and computers. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:22:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 7158109 Window 7 Tip: Enable the Preview Pane for Quick File Viewing https://techerator.com/2010/08/window-7-tip-enable-the-preview-pane-for-quick-file-viewing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=window-7-tip-enable-the-preview-pane-for-quick-file-viewing https://techerator.com/2010/08/window-7-tip-enable-the-preview-pane-for-quick-file-viewing/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:47 +0000 http://44.229.110.106/?p=8201 Navigating through your personal files can sometimes be a nightmare, and it can often times be easier to open individual documents to find exactly what you’re looking for.  After awhile, you can find yourself with multiple open documents, but none of them were the one you were looking for. By default, you documents will appear […]

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]]> Navigating through your personal files can sometimes be a nightmare, and it can often times be easier to open individual documents to find exactly what you’re looking for.  After awhile, you can find yourself with multiple open documents, but none of them were the one you were looking for.

By default, you documents will appear in a list or as icons in the Windows file explorer.  The Preview Pane in Windows 7 makes quickly viewing your documents a breeze.

Enabling The Preview Pane

Enable the Preview Pane by clicking the Preview Pane button in your open explorer window.

You can also navigate to Organize > Layout and click on Preview Pane to enable it.

Clicking on a file will now show a preview.  Note that not all files may not be viewable in the Preview Pane.

Below are a couple of examples of what documents look like in the Preview Pane.

Excel file in Preview Pane
Word document in Preview Pane

You cannot edit files through the Preview Pane, but you can copy the contents of the file.

You can re-size the Preview Pane to increase the preview size by clicking and dragging the vertical line separating the Preview Pane from the file list.

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