Re: Windows Mobile Device Center does not translate Pocket Word and Pocket Excel

[polee]

I have not found the migration to Vista too problematic, but this
problem of not being able to read Pocket Word / Excel docs after they
have been sync-ed using the Windows Mobile Device Center is very
frustrating to say the least. Surely there must be an answer, or is
this just another of Bill's little jokes.

Does anybody know whether Windows Mobile 5/6 use Pocket Word / Excel? I
suspect they do not, so this is probably just a manipulation to get us
all to update our PDAs.


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[Richard G. Harper]

Whether or not your Windows Mobile device comes with pocket apps is the
decision of the device manufacturer, not Microsoft. As with Windows, the
Mobile experience can be highly customized by the device manufacturer with
parts put in, left out, added on top of the Windows Mobile OS ...

Mine came with most of the pocket apps but not Access - which of course is
the one I really wanted. Now I know to ask before I buy.

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"polee" . wrote in message
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> I have not found the migration to Vista too problematic, but this
> problem of not being able to read Pocket Word / Excel docs after they
> have been sync-ed using the Windows Mobile Device Center is very
> frustrating to say the least. Surely there must be an answer, or is
> this just another of Bill's little jokes.
>
> Does anybody know whether Windows Mobile 5/6 use Pocket Word / Excel? I
> suspect they do not, so this is probably just a manipulation to get us
> all to update our PDAs.

 

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"polee" . wrote in message
newsolee.34eofe@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> I have not found the migration to Vista too problematic, but this
> problem of not being able to read Pocket Word / Excel docs after they
> have been sync-ed using the Windows Mobile Device Center is very
> frustrating to say the least. Surely there must be an answer, or is
> this just another of Bill's little jokes.
>
> Does anybody know whether Windows Mobile 5/6 use Pocket Word / Excel? I
> suspect they do not, so this is probably just a manipulation to get us
> all to update our PDAs.
>
Exactly so.

The current theory is that older PDA's were lacking in memory
and horsepower, so the Pocket Word .PSW files were invented
(as well as Pocket Excel) to save space.

Since newer PPC's have more memory, support for these versions
has been deleted from WMDC (along with a bunch of other useful
options you used to be able to access in Active Sync).

And it is called progress.

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