Excel has a ?Save Preview Picture? feature which allows the user to view a small picture of the worksheet before opening the file.
Click File / Open and if you are in Preview mode you should see enough of the worksheet to be able to identify if it is the worksheet you are looking for.
I recently downloaded a few Excel templates from the Microsoft website and could not see a preview.
I?d click File/Properties and select the ?Save Preview Picture? box, saved the file again and still saw nothing.
The problem is that this feature fails if the width of column A is greater than 32. If it is 32 or less, the feature works fine.
Furthermore, if it is working fine and you change the width of column A to >32 it may appear to continue to work but the Preview you see will be the way the worksheet looked BEFORE you changed the width to >32.
I?ve tested this with Excel XP and 2000. Same bug in both.