How can I show Office (Word, Excel) Thumbnails In Lister?

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Although newly created Word & Excel documents (see test 0 & 1 below) show thumbnails in Lister, some older word documents (test 2 & 3) do NOT show their thumbnails (same thing occurs in Win 11 File Explorer). What is strange is that some of the older docx and docm files do show thumbnails!

Tried:

  • Emptying thumbnail cache
  • Confirmed the word properties and Dopus settings for [Word and Excel document thumbnails] (Word and Excel document thumbnails).
  • Edited and resaved an older office 365 Word document.

Is there anything I can do, in Win 11, so Dopus will always show thumbnails (previews do work) for the older (2016-2022) Word (Docx) and Excel (Xlsx) documents?

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This is more a question MS Office than Opus. You'll see the same thumbnails in File Explorer.

I think Office has an option to include thumbnails when saving files, but I may be wrong and am not an expert.

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For what its worth...there is something happening here...and what it is is not exactly clear...

If you simply copy all content from an old word.dotm file to a new word file and save it to a new file (with thumbnail), then the word thumbnail does render.

I did find this old posting that tries to explain things but it did not help me:
Word preview thumbnails not working for files with locked content controls

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https://www.intowindows.com/enable-file-explorer-thumbnail-preview-for-word-excel-powerpoint-docs/

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