>Hi All, I'm working on a Document Management project and I was looking for a control that could display thumbnails of the several file types, including DOC, XLS, PPT, TIF, JPG, PDF. Browsing through the ActiveX controls on my systems, I found ThumbCtl, which is really simple to use and does a much better job of sizing & rendering graphics than the standard VFP image control. It's a control that's been included with MS's OSs for quite a while.
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>According to the info that I could find on it (which wasn't much), it should be able to display thumbnails for all of the file types I listed, with the exception of PDFs. It's simple to use by passing the file path & name to DisplayFile().
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>It works fine for most file types (even displays a Visio thumbnail), but for some reason, I can't get it to display thumbs for Word or Excel docs.

Hi Matt,

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0600/w2kui2/default.aspx:
"Notice that Office documents can be previewed only if they've been saved with an embedded preview picture. (There's a specific checkbox in the Properties dialog that enables this.)"