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Zoom does not by default provide previews of Microsoft Office documents like Word<\/span>, Excel<\/span>, PowerPoint,<\/span> etc. But with the custom format mechanism available in Zoom 5.2 or greater, there is a way to resolve this gap nicely. This post covers the steps needed to accomplish this exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: <\/strong>With version 8.0 or higher, we have made it easier to setup the office previews. Make sure you pay attention to the version specific guide for the office preview setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting up Office Previews on v8.0 or Higher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With v8.0, setting office file previews becomes easier. In most cases just the installation of LibreOffice is required without setting of any Perl file.
Note: <\/strong>On, Microsoft Windows, not need to setup Strawberry Perl.<\/em> On Linux no need to edit and setup the soffice.pl perl file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steps to setup the office previews<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
  1. Go to the Preview Server machine where it is installed.<\/li>
  2. Download and install long term supported version of the LibreOffice<\/a> from their Website. <\/li>
  3. You can also install the LibreOffice from official OS specific application repository. For example, on Centos<\/em>, you can use YUM Command to install the LibreOffice.<\/li>
  4. Preview Server looks for the typical LibreOffice<\/em> installation at various paths based on the operating system it is are running on.
    1. On Windows: C:\\Program Files\\LibreOffice\\program\\soffice<\/code><\/li>
    2. On Linux: \/opt\/libreofficeX.Y<\/strong>\/program\/soffice<\/code>
      1. This is the typical LibreOffice installation path when installed via rpm command. Note: Version number for you might be different.
        If more than one LibreOffices are installed at the same path, higher version number is picked up.<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
      2. UM command <\/em>typically installs it at: \/usr\/bin\/soffice<\/code><\/li>
      3. On Mac: \/Applications\/LibreOffice.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/soffice<\/code><\/li><\/ol><\/li>
      4. A warning message will logged in the Preview Server logs if it is not able to locate the soffice<\/strong><\/em> executable. In that case, admins can edit the preview-server.xml<\/em> and provide the soffice<\/em> executable path by hand. See the section below for the details.<\/li>
      5. Open Zoom Web Management Console.<\/li>
      6. Goto System -> Media Converter -> Default Converters<\/code><\/li>
      7. Set “System – Zoom Office Document Converter<\/strong>” as default converter for various office file formats like: DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, PPT<\/strong> etc…<\/li>
      8. Note:<\/strong> Don’t use “Zoom Office Document Converter”<\/strong>, that is deprecated<\/span> in v8.0.<\/li>
      9. Note:<\/strong> If you are upgrading to v8.0, you still need to change the default media converter to “System – Zoom Office Document Converter<\/strong>“.<\/li>
      10. Save the settings in Webmin.<\/li>
      11. Now try to preview the Office file previews in the Zoom Desktop or Webclient app.<\/li>
      12. If you are not able to see the office previews, check the preview server logs and see if there is any error in running the LibreOffice soffice<\/strong> executable.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
        How to set LibreOffice executable path in the preview-server.xml?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n