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Documents To Go bringing mobile office apps to Smartphones

Documents To Go for Windows Mobile 5.0
In one of those baffling decisions that Microsoft sometimes makes, the company decided that Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone users didn't need those advanced features that Pocket PC users have, like say... mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Sure, there's no touch-screen interface on Smartphones for using those programs that way you would on a Pocket PC, but there's no touch-screen interface on most PCs running Microsoft Office either.

Well, DataViz, makers of Documents To Go for PalmOS devices have decided that those programs run just fine on Smartphones. So they're porting their software to run on Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones including the Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack, and T-Mobile Dash.

The suite, which is available as a public beta right now lets you view, edit, and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. You can also view PDF files, and extra ZIP files, two functions that Microsoft has never included.

No word on pricing yet, but the Palm version of Documents To Go sells for $30 to $90 depending on which functions you need, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Windows Mobile version will be comparably priced.

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Palm

Office suite updates for your PDA

Documents To Go and Softmaker Office 2006

PalmOS and Windows Mobile devices generally come with basic document viewing and editing software. You an create and edit simple spreadsheets and text documents. But if you want advanced features like editing footnotes or on-the-fly spell checking, you need to look elsewhere.

In the last month, two of the biggest names in handheld office suites have released updates. DataViz Documents To Go for PalmOS is up to version 9, and SoftMaker Office 2006 final edition for Pocket PC was released this week.

Some of the new features:

Documents To Go
  • View and edit footnotes and endnotes in word processing files
  • View and edit comments in word processing files
  • Added new zoom levels for pictures and presentations
  • Added an integrated file explorer
  • There's no longer support for Word 95, Wordperfect, WordPro, RTF, Palm Doc, Excel 95, Word 6 for Mac files.
  • There's also no longer support for Palm's Tungsten T, T2, Zire 21, Zire 31, Zire 71, or for what looks like pretty much Sony's entire line of PalmOS PDAs. For a complete list of changes, click the read link.
SoftMaker Office 2006
  • Import OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument files
  • Track changes to your document
  • Improved filters for Microsoft Word and RT documents
  • Split and Merge table cells
  • Bibliography support
Documents To Go is available for $30 for the standard edition (just a word processor and spreadsheet), or $50 for the premium edition, (with support for PDF files, presentations, spell-checking, and other advanced features). Upgrades from an earlier version are $30

SoftMaker Office is available for $70. Or you can pick up just the spreadsheet or word processing software for $50 each. For $100 you can get the whole bundle plus versions of the software for Windows. Upgrade options are available as well. Both programs offer 30 day free trials of their software.

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