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Quicklook with Office 365 on Mac

When I launch preview and try to do a quicklook at a document, all I get is that it is a word document, and cannot see the actual file contents. This worked fine on my old macbook with Office 2011. New macbook pro, Catalina and O365 - no preview. Is there a fix? A setting? TIA

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 3, 2019 5:44 AM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2020 11:39 AM

I found a workaround fixed this issue in my Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.3.


  1. Open the folder with system Quick Look generators - "/System/Library/QuickLook".
  2. Copy "Office.qlgenerator" to "/Library/QuickLook" (this is folder for third-party generators).
  3. Rename "Office.qlgenerator" to any unique name - for example, "MSOffice.qlgenerator".
  4. Restart Quick Look daemon with terminal command "qlmanage -r".


This worked for me - the Quick Look now correctly generates previews for any kind of MS Office files. Now I'm happy! ))


Best,

Alex.

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Feb 6, 2020 11:39 AM in response to lisafromwalpole

I found a workaround fixed this issue in my Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.3.


  1. Open the folder with system Quick Look generators - "/System/Library/QuickLook".
  2. Copy "Office.qlgenerator" to "/Library/QuickLook" (this is folder for third-party generators).
  3. Rename "Office.qlgenerator" to any unique name - for example, "MSOffice.qlgenerator".
  4. Restart Quick Look daemon with terminal command "qlmanage -r".


This worked for me - the Quick Look now correctly generates previews for any kind of MS Office files. Now I'm happy! ))


Best,

Alex.

Quicklook with Office 365 on Mac

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