For PDAs with Windows CE, Textmaker http://www.softmaker.com/english/tm_en.htm is perhaps the best bet. It has a full office suite and is most compatible with MS Office. The price is reasonable, and they have quite often excellent "sales" on, especially for the versions "just before the latest"... The suite runs on Windows, Linux, Unixes and all sorts of miniatures. Plus, it is a FULL version that runs, not the usual MS Office hack. A must to check it out. New: it now imports OpenOffice v.1.x and 2.0 docs...
Actually, I am quite surprised that this piece of software hasn't been mentioned before. "Kira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : [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... : : > -----Original Message----- : > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
