This file cannot be previewed outlook

Once you perform all these steps successfully, you activate the previewer. Once the previewer is activated, you can easily open and view the attachments in Outlook. This error can also happen when Windows Fireball is not enabled on your system. To enable the Windows Firewall, follow the below-mentioned steps:. So, these were the quick fixes, you can try to preview the attachments of an Outlook email.

However, this issue can occur due to corruption of PST files too. There are times when your PST might get corrupt and this may hamper all your work going on. To save yourself in such situations you can install this PST recovery tool on your system and with just a few clicks, your PST will be repaired. The tool comes with many benefits that helps you to totally customize the repairing process.

It can repair multiple PST files at a time, integrates an automatic search option to search PST files in the specified system drive, previews repaired PST mailboxes content including metadata, allows making the selection of data with smart filter options, and propose multiple saving options including Office cloud platform, more file formats like HTML, RTF, etc.

The tool comes with a trial version with which a user can recover deleted PST file up to 25 items per folder with no issue at all. This blog is all about the issue of Outlook attachments not getting displayed for preview. So, we tried to provide the best possible fix for that issue. We have suggested a few setting changes that may help you to fix the problem. At last we have suggested what to do if you have a corrupt PST. It seems there is two different versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader on this computer.

I have used the AdobeAcroCleaner to get rid of the other install. I will have another look at settings, and perhaps another clean install. Turns out I had recently installed PowerToys for Windows and it has a PDF previewer as well - it can be disabled in the settings and once I did that, all was good.

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Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Outlook won't preview PDF files. Hi guys, When I open an email in Office Professional Plus and click on a PDF file attachment I get the error message"This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it".

Repaired Office, no change. Anyone know how I get it to come back? General troubleshooting. Follow Report. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Mike McKinzie, Thanks for posting in our forum. Meanwhile, please follow the steps below to check Attachment Handling Settings: 1. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Hi Mike McKinzie,. We haven't heard back from you. Do you need any further assistance? If so, please provide us the required information at your convenience. Thanks for following up. Installing update did not work The previewer for any Office product still fails to load.

In reply to Mike McKinzie's post on April 9, Sorry for the long wait on the reply.