I am in very early trial mode: my viewer does not read Libre Office document formats. I have re-installed Libre Office and included the Active X Control. Also have allowed MS Office compatibility in the Writer Compatibility Menu. These actions have not allowed viewing the contents of *.odt or *.ods files. One other thing, not so important but bothersome: Directory Opus always refers to pdf documents as `MS Edge pdf' documents. Since I do not use Edge or MS Office....how would I reconfigure Directory Opus to fix the above concerns? I will appreciate some assistance!
Thanks....@haroseal
Do Libre Office documents view within File Explorer's viewer pane? If they aren't working there either then it's a question for the Libre Office developers.
Re PDF viewers, reinstall the PDF viewer you want to use if it isn't the one that Opus and File Explorer are currently using.
When I did use File Explorer years ago it did not have a viewer. I have been using PowerDesk (a good dual panel, comprehensive, file manager with a good viewer and player--but it has started freezing frequently). and Q-dir (a really good comprehensive, flexible dual panel file manager--but without a viewer that is easy to use). I was hoping Directory Opus would provide me a next generation file manager. Its viewer seems very good, including pdf flles, but it does not view OpenOffice/LibreOffice formats which form many of my files.
Viewing of Office formats is up to the programs that make them. They’re far too complex (and evolving) for third parties to realistically make viewers for them.
If they make a viewer that uses the standard preview handler API then it will work in File Explorer, Opus, Outlook and other software.
That’s how PDF viewing works, too. And even Microsoft manage to provide preview handlers with MS Office. Why the Open Office team can’t do it, I do not know, but we’re even less able to do it than they are.