Kira wrote: > Knight, Jon wrote: > > > If so, which ones are supported? > > > > Thanks, > > Jon Knight > > Based on the options in the Custom install, both PalmOS devices and > PocketPCs are supported. PalmOS is supported via AportisDoc format, > which means you need to have the AportisDoc Reader application. PocketPC > is supported by PocketWord and PocketExcel formats, which are default > formats that come with the PocketPC devices (as I understand it). > > Fair warning--if I've answered your question enough already, you don't > need to bother to keep reading. I have some more details of my own > experiences with various PalmOS-based office suites below for anyone > who's interested, and I'm long-winded. > > I own a PalmOS-based Sony Clié, and I don't use AportisDoc, although in > looking it up just now it looks like the reader app is free. I have a > PalmOS-based MS Office suite and I use MS Office formats for documents I > transfer to the Clié. The office suite I use is called MobiSystems > OfficeSuite. I use this particular one because it doesn't complain that > I don't have MS Office installed on my computer; my former office suite, > QuickOffice, seemed to require MS Office apps to be installed, although > when I emailed their tech support, they said I could run it as a > stand-alone application. My suspicion is that at the time, I had only > just uninstalled MS Office and possibly still had MS Outlook, which is > an MS Office application although I ran it by itself for a while, and > QuickOffice got confused because I had some MS Office registry entries. > > There is at least one other MS Office for PalmOS suite out there, but > I've never used that one; it's Documents to Go by DataViz and it's very > popular. I don't know how well that one would tolerate running as a > stand-alone application. In any case, if you can get a portable office > suite that reads and edits MS Office native files to run on your > computer without needing to integrate itself into the actual MS Office, > then any of those should work with some degree of success. I have never > had any problems reading MS Word or Excel spreadsheets created in > OpenOffice.org with MobiSystems OfficeSuite on my device, and I have at > least one pretty complex spreadsheet (it is a Dungeons & Dragons > character sheet that allows you to input experience points and then uses > equations and lookup tables to figure out the character's new level and > new abilities). I can edit the data either in my computer or on my Clié, > as long as I remember to sync before I accidentally edit it in both > places. I don't know if AportisDoc Reader allows editing or deals with > anything but word processing documents. I have yet to create a > presentation so I haven't been able to test how well those work on the > PalmOS device either. > > Kira
Thanks to all who responded. It seems like there are options available, and that is what I was after. Thanks Kira for mentioning some of them. Jon Knight ----------------------------------------- The information in this message may be proprietary and/or confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify First Data immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
