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Last updated on 9 December 2024

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Overview

When previewing Excel documents, sometimes they will show as an Excel preview.

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And sometimes they will show as a PDF preview.

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This can be confusing to users.


There seem to be two main things affecting this as seen in the two KB articles listed here:

/article/How-to-change-M-Files-preview-to-use-local-default-previewer

/article/Why-my-previews-look-different

Solution

If users would like to have a unified preview against a file type, the two above KBs in conjunction should solve the issue where a single preview is always shown.

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With the above registry settings, Excel files will always show with the Excel preview as seen in the first screenshot of this KB.

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