Pocket Word and Excel woes

fsman · #1 (**permalink**) 03-16-2003, 08:07 PM

I have used Microsoft Excel to develop daily report documents with little trouble on a PC.

Downloading these documents to my Axim has been frustrating. It seems the documents lose so much of their formatting when converted to Pocket Excel that the documents are not usable.(Text boxes are not reconized in Pocket Excel for example) I have had similar results with Pocket Word.

Entering data into documents on a PDA is a common practice . It must be simple but I am stumped.
Any help would be appreciated.

whatsurpointnow · #2 (**permalink**) 03-16-2003, 09:23 PM

have you been to microsloths website and posted this to their forum? May be able to get some insight there.

RommelS · #3 (**permalink**) 03-16-2003, 10:44 PM

Text Box is not supported in Pocket Excel / Word.

fsman · #4 (**permalink**) 03-17-2003, 07:47 PM

The problem is not so much that not that text box is not supported but that so many other things are not supported either. That being said, I think I discovered a work around on some of these problems.

fsman · #5 (**permalink**) 03-17-2003, 07:56 PM

Oh gee, I sound like I am whining.
The Axim has been great as has the information on this site. Thanks Rommels

RommelS · #6 (**permalink**) 03-17-2003, 08:31 PM

FSMAN ...check this site out for tips on how to work around the compatibility problems.

http://www.bugnet.com/analysis/0101/ftpdaword.html