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Anyway, here’s what to do:
- From the library, go to Library Settings.
- Scroll down to the Views section and click “Create a view”.
- On the View Type page, select “All Documents” near the bottom.
- On the Create View page, enter “My Documents” in the “View Name” box.
Open an Office file
- Click the File tab.
- Click Open.
- Under Favorites, click SharePoint Sites.
- Click the SharePoint site where your file is located, and then click Open.
- Click the name of the library that contains the file, such as Shared Documents, and then click Open.
How to create a preview in SharePoint document?
First, let us set up our Document library with the required column. Create a column with name ‘Preview’ in any of Document Library. Upload some dummy document with a different file type. Now, let us format this column. We need to Edit the column from the Document Library settings.
How to create a custom view of a document library?
If so, see Create a view. On the heading bar of the document library page, click + or + Add column. Click Show/hide columns at the bottom of the list. In the Edit view columns pane, select a column from the list and either drag and drop or use the up or down arrows to change the order in which the columns will appear.
Can a file preview be created in list view?
So based on file type it will create file preview automatically and displays in view. Please note that pdf, docx, pptx and around other 170 file types are supported (ref – video ). This concludes our learning on how to use @thumbnail with column formatting for file preview in list view.
How to set the default view of a document library?
To set the default view for a document library, navigate to the view you want to set as the default and then click Set current view as the default in the view menu. To delete a custom view of a document library, you must have library owner or admin permissions for the library where you want to delete the custom view.