In Outlook 2007 you have the ability to quickly preview office documents (Word, Excel, etc) in the message window. Unfortunately out of the box you could not preview PDF documents, even if you have Adobe Reader installed. When you do try to preview a PDF you get the message “This file cannot be previewed becaue there is no previewer installed for it.”

Good news. Tim Heuer has been working with Foxit to create a Free Previewer for Outlook 2007. It was just released at the end of February. You can access the previewer from Tim’s blog at http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/02/27/14001.aspx.

Right now this view only works on Vista & Outlook 2007, but they are working on a Windows XP & Outlook 2007 version. This is a great job of extending the Office 2007 platform!