Can't do an embedded preview of any Word file

Hi all,

I can't do an embedded preview of any Word file, not even the simplest, single-sentence one. The error message is "An error was encountered while previewing the file. Please check your MS Office installation".

My (genuine) MS Office (2016 Professional) installation seems perfectly fine. What might be the problem?

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  • Thanks for the response. I wish it was fixed, because it certainly doesn't seem to be on my end. I have the exact same build as you. Yesterday the function somehow started magically working - with any project. Today it won't work again - also with any project, despite restarting the application and the PC. Same error as before. I could try reinstalling Office, but I want to get on this hassle only after trying everything else.

    Any further help, please? This was one of the reasons I even bought this thing in place of MemoQ, and now it's disappointing me from the very beginning… Though I do realize it might be yet another issue with a Microsoft product.

     

    EDIT: the external ("Microsoft Word") real-time preview does work. 

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