Previewing documents from Finder

What is going on? I ask the question "Why can't I see a preview of an ID doc in finder, to save me opening up each doc to see if it's the one I want?" I got the reply from Adobe that says it's impossible to do as ID doesn't know which page (in a multi page doc) to display. What a crock of poo! I've just found out that if you draw a picture box in a doc and click place, you can then browse through all your ID docs, SEEING THE PREVIEWS, so you can then see what the doc looks like you want to open. So why can't you see a preview in Finder??

Jeff,
Relax.
I have no idea why you can't preview ID files in the Finder considering that you can see them via the Place command.
But if you want to know more about an InDesign document before you open it, use Bridge. That's a much better choice than the Finder.
You get to see the preview as well as learn what fonts are used, colors, etc.

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Word doesn't seem to want to open ANY documents. Every time I try, it stops responding and I have to Force Quit. I don't think it's a problem with the documents themselves because TextEdit can still open them. Also, I know that Word installed properly because it's been opening documents fine for two years-- this only started a couple of days ago. Ordinarily I'd simply reinstall, but I don't have the disk. Word won't open documents from Finder, or after I launch and select open from the options. It also won't open any downloads.
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http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx
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