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Last reviewed on January 28, 2015     3 Comments

I think we've all been in the shoes of this Outlook user at least once or twice:

This new Outlook 2013 drives me NUTS as it temporarily displays the stuff that I've just Copied wherever my mouse is now hovering in a document or in a Contact's Note section. I want to go back to the old reliable deal where I'd put my mouse where I wanted it to go and then do a RIGHT CLICK / PASTE. If I forget what will be Pasted, I can Paste it into a clear area so I can read it.

This frustrated user is talking about Live Preview, which displays the clipboard contents after right-clicking and choosing Paste, but before you select whether to paste plain text, keep or merge formatting.

Livepreview is enabled

To disable Live Preview in Outlook, go to File, Options, General uncheck Enable Live Preview. To disable it in Word, go to Word's File, Options, General.

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With LivePreview disabled, the message, document, or notes field is blank until you actually paste into it.

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Disable Live Preview in Outlook and Word was last modified: January 28th, 2015 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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Andrew
June 30, 2017 12:45 am

I have a customer who is having Office 365 . 64 bit installed
Live preview is grayed out in Word, Excel ,Powerpoint. But its enabled in Outlook.
How to enable it on Word etc ?

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Diane Poremsky
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July 1, 2017 7:37 pm

Hmm. It should be a global option - on in or, on in all. You may need to restart the apps for it to take effect if you change it in a different app.

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Diane Poremsky
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July 1, 2017 7:42 pm

Wait - it's actually grayed out? That sounds like a group policy is in effect. Look in the policy keys - hkcu\software\policies\microsoft\office. Also could be under hklm.

But it should be global, so I'm not sure why it's working in outlook... unless outlook is running as admin and the other apps are not.

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