First public binary release
TCOfficeView previews Microsoft Office documents — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook messages and more — directly in Total Commander's F3 / Quick View (Ctrl+Q) pane. It delegates rendering to the Windows Preview Handlers that an MS Office installation already registers, so previews look exactly like those in Windows Explorer, without any document parsing and without a managed runtime dependency.
If MS Office is not installed (or a handler fails to load), the plugin shows a small information panel with the file's basic metadata instead of an empty pane.
Supported formats
| Application | Extensions |
|---|---|
| Word | DOC, DOCX, DOCM, RTF |
| Excel | XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB |
| PowerPoint | PPT, PPTX, PPTM |
| Visio | VSD, VSDX |
| Outlook | MSG |
Installation
Recommended — Total Commander auto-installer:
- Download
TCOfficeView.v1.0.0.zipbelow (and verify the digital signatureTCOfficeView.v1.0.0.zip.asc[see below]) - In Total Commander, navigate to the ZIP and press Enter.
- TC detects
pluginst.infand offers to install the plugin — confirm. - Press F3 or Ctrl+Q on any
.docx/.xlsx/.pptxto verify.
Manual install: unzip into a persistent folder and register TCOfficeView.wlx (32-bit TC) or TCOfficeView.wlx64 (64-bit TC) under Configuration → Options → Plugins → Lister plugins → Configure → Add.
Verifying the download
Each release ships a detached GPG signature alongside the ZIP:
gpg --keyserver keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 489C5EC80FD62BE89E59B4F719C13E8CE0F5DB61
gpg --verify TCOfficeView.v1.0.0.zip.asc TCOfficeView.v1.0.0.zip
Expected: Good signature from "Michal Růžička <ruzicka.mich@gmail.com>"
Key fingerprint: 489C 5EC8 0FD6 2BE8 9E59 B4F7 19C1 3E8C E0F5 DB61
Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md