Preview document in open dialog box

I have a brand new IMAC (intel) and I am running appleworks 6 on it successfully. However, on my old IMAC, when I went to the open document dialog box, it would give me a graphic thumbnail of each document as I scrolled down. Now I just get a text description. Is there a preference somewhere to change this?
Thanks in advance.
IMAC Mac OS X (10.4.4)

For AppleWorks files, that's what I'm seeing too, whether I'm in the Open dialogue or in a Finder window.
The only files I see previews of content for are ones for which the application that created them also creates a thumbnail image of the file's contents. A quick look just now showed these were .gif, .jpg, .pict .pdf and .txt files, all saved by applications other than Appleworks.
I can't recall the feature having been different in the past (save when the Open dialogue offered no options to the way files were listed).
Regards,
Barry

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