[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the same shape. The version of MS Office for the Dell Axiom is
almost useless. I would much prefer OpenOffice. Even the portable
version of it that does not have the Java would be more helpful to me.
Roxann Milby
Wing B Office Admin
I believe that's a Windows CE/Pocket PC/Windows Mobile device, right?
(i.e., not PalmOS.) I don't know what's available for the Windows-based
PDAs. However...
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From: Andrew Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Will OpenOffice run on a Palm TX?
"Stanley Mulvihill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just purchased a Palm TX (with 1 gig SD card) and was wondering if
OpenOffice would run on Palms OS since it is simular to windows and
that OpenOffice runs on a java platform. Which OpenOffice OS should I
try using first (Win)(Linux)(Freebsd)?
No it won't. OOo doesn't run on Java, though it akes use of java for
some
add-ons. But there is a filter available to change OOo documents to PDB
format and back
...I have a PalmOS-based device (a Sony Clié), so I have tried a few
PalmOS office apps. I have never tried to run OOo itself on my PDA, and
I suspect even the portable version is too big for my PDA (it only has
16MB of RAM). There are at least 3 major office suites for PalmOS that
are meant to work with MS Office, but can work with OOo if the documents
are saved in MS-Office-compatible formats. All three have the ability to
create and edit documents in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint formats. They
are DataViz' Documents to Go, iGo's QuickOffice (used to be Cutting Edge
Software), and Mobile Systems' OfficeSuite (the company is also called
MobiSystems).
I have some limited experience with QuickOffice Premiere; it worked very
well with MS Office itself, but it converted Office doc formats to its
own format, and had to do that thru Office itself. It could edit native
MS Office docs, but it did so in HTML format and only from memory cards
(as far as I recall). So I started looking around for a different suite.
The one I use now is OfficeSuite. This one worked flawlessly (as far as
I could tell) on versions 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 of OOo. It still works with
versions 2.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2, but I now have occasional problems with
documents I create on the PC being considered corrupted when I try to
open them in OfficeSuite on the PDA. Only things I've created or edited
in versions 2.0 and above have had this problem and I suspect it has to
do with the translation to MS Office format, since OfficeSuite is then
re-translating the format to a PalmOS-readable format (as Andrew Brown
stated, it needs to be a PDB document). I have worked around it so far
by creating on the PDA the docs I need to work on on the PDA and just
syncing them to the PC as backup.
I agree that a version of OOo itself, or at least a PDA office suite
that syncs directly to OOo formats, would be ideal. So if someone comes
up with a way to do this, please let me know. :)
Kira
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