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
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