Use Dropbox or OneDrive to create a synced Preview of your Microsoft Word documents. Show me!
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With CafeTran for Mac you can create a preview of your Office document in the tabbed pane, without the need of installing extra software:
- Place (a copy of) your source document on your Desktop and give it a generic name, like CT.docx or Source.docx.
- In CafeTran's Prefs add this to the field for the Desktop search tool and tick the Terminal checkbox:
qlmanage -p -o/Users/Hans/Desktop/ /Users/Hans/Desktop/CT.docx
or use:
textutil -convert html 1.docx
to convert a whole bunch of DOCX files:
textutil -cat html -title "CafeTran Preview" -output index.html *.docx
loads all DOCX files in the current directory, concatenates their contents, and writes the result out as index.html with the HTML title set to "CafeTran Preview".
- Create a new web resource and add this into the first field:
file:///Users/Hans/Desktop/CT.docx.qlpreview/Preview.html
Here is a short screen recording:
And here is a screenshot:
To make this procedure completely transparent, CafeTran would need an extra checkbox in the Project Configuration dialogue box:
Also a syncing mechanism should be added: when navigating to a new segment, the new segment should be marked in the (floating) preview pane.
Supported file formats: All file formats supported by OS X QuickLook:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look#Supported_file_types_by_default
Plug-ins can be installed for additional file formats:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
However, I'm not sure whether qlmanage can deal with these plug-ins.
Support for OpenOffice:
An early implementation is available at:
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/patches/aqua_February2008/quicklook/
To install, place OOoQuickLook.qlgenerator from that site into /Library/QuickLook and wait a few minutes for QuickLook to detect the new generator.
