I know that you can turn on preview through the file properties in
Word 2002. But I want preview to be on for every file I create without
having to make any extra effort.  I am comfortable editing the
registry, if need be.  Any suggestions?

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 18 Apr 2003 00:52 PDT

May I ask on a point. Do you mean that you want the preview to be open
when you open the file concerned in Word, or do you want the preview
to be open in WIndows Explorer or other programs as well? Thank you.

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Clarification of Question by joycek-ga on 02 May 2003 18:09 PDT

Some clarifications:

I am running Office XP Small Business on Windows XP.

When I go to File, Open in Word, the Open File dialog box offers
several views, one of which is Preview.  Actually, many Explorer
windows allow Preview as a View option.  However, most of my Word
documents cannot be previewed; instead, a blank page appears with the
words "Preview Not Available".

On searching Microsoft Help, I found that the Preview option for each
document is turned off by default, because storing a Preview uses
about 60K per document. To turn it on, *for a particular document
ONLY*, you must open the document, then go to File, Properties, and
check "Turn on Preview". This is an enormous pain in the patoot, as I
like to Preview document before opening; so I would like to have the
Preview feature turned on *by default*, so that I don't have to even
think about it, unless I want to turn it off for some reason.

My main concern is Word documents, but if a solution worked for all
Office documents, so much the better.