Automatic Font Change In Word 2007

[Guest]

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

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--------------
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***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
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OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
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[Guest]

I found an option called "Enable Live Preview" and it is grayed out. I'm not
sure why this option is not available. I did do an upgrade from Office 2003
but you would think most people would do the same as me. I guess this is why
this feature is not available to me.

Anybody have any thoughts.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Ok, so are you running Office 2007 RTM on XP.
Can you try and rename the Normal.dotm file on your computer while Word
is closed and see what happens then?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

:

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Patrick,

I did rename the Normal.dotm and that had no effect. Sorry.

Ok, so are you running Office 2007 RTM on XP.
Can you try and rename the Normal.dotm file on your computer while Word
is closed and see what happens then?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

:

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Remove Office 2007 completely and do a full reinstall?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

I did rename the Normal.dotm and that had no effect. Sorry.

Ok, so are you running Office 2007 RTM on XP.
Can you try and rename the Normal.dotm file on your computer while Word
is closed and see what happens then?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

:

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

:

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Doug,

Hmmm. Is this in any document or just certain ones?

The Live preview feature, except when running with MS Office Communicator or MS Office Live meeting should work when using the font
dropdown from the main ribbon (it doesn't work using the same dropdown from the minitoolbar that shows up when you hover over text)

It's possible that an add-in is interfering with the operation or that Word is finding more than one startup template (such as both
Normal.dot and Normal.dotm). If you start Word 2007 in safe mode (hold ctrl+key when starting Word) do you get the same problem?

If so, does running the Office diagnostics from Button=>Word Options=>Resources change the behavior?

=============
I found an option called "Enable Live Preview" and it is grayed out. I'm not
sure why this option is not available. I did do an upgrade from Office 2003
but you would think most people would do the same as me. I guess this is why
this feature is not available to me.

Anybody have any thoughts.

Thanks. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Guest]

I did remove Office 2007 and then did a full reinstall but the problem still
persists. Before I uninstalled Office I removed Adobe Acrobat Pro. I read
some where that Abobe could cause a problem with earlier versions of Office.
I only have 2 Com Ad-In's (1) Mappoint and (2) Adobe RoboHelp. I did remove
it from the Ad-Ins but that didn't help anything either. I also tried running
a Microsoft Office Diagnostics and a rpeair to no avail.

I do appreciate your help but I am not sure anyone will have an answer to
this problem to enable Live Preview.

Thanks again.

Remove Office 2007 completely and do a full reinstall?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

I did rename the Normal.dotm and that had no effect. Sorry.

Ok, so are you running Office 2007 RTM on XP.
Can you try and rename the Normal.dotm file on your computer while Word
is closed and see what happens then?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

:

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

:

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

You can try the big hammer approach...
Remove it again. And then use the following steps to clean your computer
completely from any traces of Office 2007:
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/79
Then reinstall.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

I did remove Office 2007 and then did a full reinstall but the problem still
persists. Before I uninstalled Office I removed Adobe Acrobat Pro. I read
some where that Abobe could cause a problem with earlier versions of Office.
I only have 2 Com Ad-In's (1) Mappoint and (2) Adobe RoboHelp. I did remove
it from the Ad-Ins but that didn't help anything either. I also tried running
a Microsoft Office Diagnostics and a rpeair to no avail.

I do appreciate your help but I am not sure anyone will have an answer to
this problem to enable Live Preview.

Thanks again.

Remove Office 2007 completely and do a full reinstall?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Patrick,

I did rename the Normal.dotm and that had no effect. Sorry.

:

Ok, so are you running Office 2007 RTM on XP.
Can you try and rename the Normal.dotm file on your computer while Word
is closed and see what happens then?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Patrick,

The office build is: 12.0.4518.1014
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2

I'm not sure what the build number was for Office 2003. Again Office 2007
was upgraded over Office 2003.

Thanks.

:

Which Office build?
Which Windows version?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I did try this but it is grayed out and not available. Very strange.

:

Office button, Word Options, Popular, "Enable Live Preview".

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


I believe there is an option buried somewhere that enables/disables "active
preview" or words to that effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007 and I thought you should be able
to
highlight a few sentences and then click on a font from the Home Ribbon
section and as you scrolls through the different fonts your text should
change to represent the font your mouse was hovering over.

In my case nothing happens. I can actual click on the font and it will
change the text but not the font review feature I was looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,