How To EASILY Preview ANY File In Excel: For Beginners

Want Excel to show file thumbnails right on your sheet—just by browsing for a file?
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In this beginner-friendly VBA build, I’ll show you how to display real-time file previews directly in Excel. We’ll load images, preview actual PowerPoint slides, and show crisp icons for Word, Excel, and PDF files—then center and auto-size them inside a smart thumbnail box.

In This Video, You’ll Learn:
✓ How to create a simple “Browse File” macro
✓ Real-time PowerPoint slide previews
✓ Image thumbnails in Excel
✓ PDF, Word, and Excel icons
✓ Auto-sizing & centering preview frames

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𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬:
0:00 – Introduction
0:20 – Overview
1:55 – Setting up thumbnail display area & browse button
3:04 – Accessing VBA editor & inserting a new module
5:23 – Deleting old thumbnails safely with error handling
6:29 – File dialog: allowing user to browse & pick files
9:39 – Extracting and testing the file extension
11:16 – Assigning macro to button & verifying extension works
12:49 – Handling different file types (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, Images)
15:24 – Naming and managing thumbnail shapes
15:34 – Inserting pictures
16:35 – Handling unsupported files → “No Preview Available”
17:57 – Formatting thumbnails & sizing objects dynamically
19:55 – Centering thumbnails vertically & horizontally
21:00 – Testing PDF previews
21:22 – Testing vertical picture preview
21:27 – Testing PowerPoint preview
21:40 – Testing Word document (icon preview + open link)
21:57 – Testing Excel workbook (icon preview + open link)
22:11 – Summary of results: single macro previews for multiple file types

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