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Microsoft Office Mobile 2007

Office MobileMicrosoft announced two Windows Mobile updates today. First, a Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 will be available starting in June on devices from HTC, Sharp, and Toshiba.

The bigger news is that Office Mobile 2007 will be available as a free download in the third quarter of this year.

It doesn't sound like there will be a ton of new features in the updated version of Office Mobile. But it will have one killer app: support for Office 2007 documents. You'll be able to open Office 2007 file formats like .pptx .docx and .xlsx.

Office Mobile 2007 will work with Windows Mobile 5.0 touchscreen devices and all Windows Mobile 6 devices. Sorry, no downloading Office Mobile 2007 for a WM5.0 Smartphone with the hopes of adding Office Mobile to a phone that didn't ship with it pre-installed.

[via Jason Langridge]

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows Mobile

How to create Office Docs on a Windows Mobile smartphone

Office Mobile docsOkay, this is kind of lame. So Microsoft finally goes and puts a version of Office Mobile in the smartphone version of Windows Mobile 6 (now known as Windows Mobile 6 Standard). But for some reason, they've decided not to let you create new documents. You can only view and edit existing Word and Excel files.

Luckily Mike Temporale of Smartphone Thoughts has come up with a simple solution.
  1. Using MS Office 2003 or earlier, create blank Word and Excel documents.
  2. Save them to your desktop.
  3. Change the names to something like "New Word Doc," and "New Excel Doc."
  4. Right click on the files, select properties, and check the "read only" box.
  5. Copy these files to the /My Documents folder on your smartphone.
  6. Now when you launch Word or Excel mobile, you can select the blank documents from the open menu, edit them, and save them as new files.
You can perform this workaround in just a few minutes, and the solution takes up only about 42KB of storage on your device.

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