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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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