Windows 10: Preview Pane, doc, docx, xlsx - by other than MS Office?

Hi, in order to see a preview of document formats other than the default types supported by Windows, a preview handler is needed. PDF readers often supply one for .pdf's; MS Office does for office document types.

Do you know of any other office-type program that provides a preview handler for office file types? (doc, docx etc)
I know where I'd expect to find these from the registry.

Examples that don't:
WPS Office, Libre Office, Atlantis Word Processor.

Thanks.

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Windows 10 Preview Pane

For what little help this may be ......

My laptop is running Windows 10 Home Premium Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.535).

I don't normally use the preview pane.

But, after enabling it, I see previews of everything.

Word docs (.Doc & .Docx), Excel docs (.xlsx), .rtf docs, .txt docs, .pdf docs, .jpg, .mp4

 

File Explorer hangs when viewing MS Office files with Details Pane open

So, I have recently come across this issue, where selecting any MS Office files (.doc, .docx, .xlsx, etc) while the Details Pane is open will cause the Windows Explorer process to hang. I have:

• restarted the PC
  
• repaired MS Office 2013 installation
  
• updated to the latest version of MS Office 2013 (v 15.0.5137.1000)
  

I am yet to re-install, as the program itself has no issues running.

 

clicking on a filename does not feed that file (.docx or .doc ...) into an MS Office program

clicking on a filename does not feed that file (.docx or .doc ...) into an MS Office program