After 2013-002 security update quick look preview does not work with Office files

Well, this is not an answer. I was just wondering if anybody else can confirm this issue. I've not installed yet 2013-002 security update as it would be very annoying for me losing quick look preview for Word files. And annoying too cloning and then cloning back my volume just for this.

Update installed: All my .doc files (Word 2004) are still opening with Quick Look.

@WZZZ Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I forgot to say I'm on Office 2011.

@senzaesclusiva I'm assuming you're referring to Office 2011 updated to the latest release (14.3.4). Even though the qlgenerator file did never get updated (at least I think so, as both creation and modification dates are January 27, 2010. Version 2.0). What's going wrong with fonts installation? I noticed that until a couple of updates ago every time I updated Office 2011 I got duplicated fonts which I had to resolve. But now updates work smoothly.

I'm afraid we're drifting off topic (this one should be about quick look). If you install plenty of fonts, maybe one or more are corrupt or you installed too many. If you didn't yet try, the first thing I suggest is booting in Safe Mode (press and hold Shift at startup). This will clear your font cache. I'm no font expert, but here you can find detailed information about troubleshooting fonts in Snow Leopard:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html#Anchor-Undoing-49575

http://www.office.mvps.org/troubleshoot/bad_font.html (a bit dated maybe)

There are many useful discussions in the Communities; this one for example:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4275474?start=0 which links to an exhaustive article by user Kurt Lang about font management:

http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

At last I resolved to install anyway this security update and thought to report in case someone else is waiting for clues. Quick look preview for Office files keeps working fine (Office 2011 v. 14.3.5): I can see previews of Word files no matter which version of the application created them. There's a glitch with Excel files, but I can't tell for sure, maybe it's always been there (I seldom use Excel). It seems that quick look previews are available only for Excel files created in Office 2011; anyway they aren't for old files created with Excel v. X, I haven't .xls from Office 2004 or 2008 to test. However I can restore quick look preview just "saving as" a copy in Excel 14.3.5. I don't use at all PowerPoint.

Glad you fixed it the long way.

senzaesclusiva wrote:

Magic: no loss of data or app settings.

That's the way Mac OS X works since SL. Until 10.5 you had to choose the option Archive and Install.