Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

This solution will be ok just for thouse, who are using unlimited data plans. Mabey somebody allready written about it, but i didnt found

MS Office WEB aplications

Ther is working just Excel editing now, but under development is Powerpoint, Word, OneNote.

To enable this online editing, you must to install Office 2010 Beta on your PC and after that, save document right to MS Skydrive, after that you be able to create/edit/share MS documents online.

Hope, that would be helpfull for someone.

http://jekabsons.lv/moins/excel_n900.png

EDIT: you must use Firefox for it, couse from Maemo Browser there ir not possible to login to MS Live - letter '@' is not writing

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Well, if you are going to use Web Apps, then you could use Google Docs. It works just fine with the built-in browser.

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Google Docs have some baaad thing... there is no possibility to upload real xls or xlsx file and also no possability to download it or send online thru mail to my office etc.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Actually with the new google docs changes you can upload anything. There is even a pixelpipe way of doing it from the N900. Then you can share the document as an attachment.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Hmm... thats something new to me... must check it out

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

You can upload XLS or XLSX and either choose to convert them to Google Docs format (editable on the browser) or too keep it in the original format for sharing or downloading latter. And you can mail them just fine.

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Crazy. If someone send me a mail with a doc file to edit: I have to download the mail, upload the file, edit it. Download again and send it to my mate? Wow!

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

No - you upload it to google docs - edit it online using google docs - email it to your mate - using google docs.

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That might be because MS have a proprietary format!

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Genius ain't it?

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I am hoping KOffice will be real soon because I don't trust the cloud, so google docs is not an option for me. For now, I use my Mac for this but that won't hold for ever.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Well, there is always OpenOffice.org from Easy Debian. That is what I use.

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...p-on-the-n900/

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

hi to all, but an office for N900 doesn't exist yet?
is there a working project?
I think OO from debian easy is too heavy for n900 (of course, it's born for a pc, not for a umpc like this nokia device)

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Right, but...I am heavy on PowerPoint and guess what. Majority of presentations I use to handle are around 5 MB. This appears to be a problem for GDocs making my them absolutely unusable in my case. MS or OO is the only way if you do PP. CU o_O

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

I advice you to try easy debian and openoffice.org. You can decide if it's usable enough for you. No damage to your device and you can uninstall the packages if you don't like it.
Easy debian will allow you to have a whole lot of new apps - several of them work reasonably well on the tiny display of our devices.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

In easy debian, you can install Abiword (word-like) and gnumeric (excel-like) which are much faster than open office and really usable

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

I prefer to wait a specific version!
;)

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Slightly offtopic perhaps, but is there any working, free way of just viewing MS-office doc's on the N900??? Google docs, okay, but uploading docs from your phone just to read them is too much except in real emergencies.

I know of Freoffice but it's on a very early stage, and didn't install for me, complained there were two packages missing, so I decided to wait for it to mature a bit.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

On previous NITs there was the antiword package

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

And this is a problem because?

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Will it ever be?

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Actually, all you do is click on the doc inside the mail message and select to open it with Google Docs, Edit it it, and mail it back. No need to download it at all. :)

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:eek:

How please? If you are in modest, how can you select to open the doc with google Docs? Explain how, it would be very useful. Thanks!

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

In GMail it is very easy. When you have a message with attachments you are given several options for handling such attachments (see the attached screenshot). If you choose "Open as a Google Document" Google will import the file into your Google Docs and open it for editing. That simple.

This is the explanation Google gives:

By doing this you saved an editable copy online at Google Docs.

Google Docs allows you to:

• Create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, from anywhere you have Internet access.
• Share documents with others, even collaborating on the same document at once, in real time.
• Know that your documents are safe. Since your content is stored on Google's secure servers, even if something happens to your hard drive, your documents are protected.

Thanks,
The Google Docs Team

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

Good effort, thanks. But I don't have only gmail accounts!

And I cannot centralize all my mails on Gmail! I need to use my business email accounts.

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

I am not sure what your specific requirements are, but you can indeed import several accounts int your GMail account. With a Standard Google Apps account you can integrate your Exchange mail into GMail.

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/...n&answer=33322

At our office we have migrated all our mail operations to Google Apps Premier Edition. Yeah, it was the easy way out, but we love it so far. What tipped us over the edge into doing it is their Postini services for data retention. Seamless, painless, and legally compliant. But, sorry, I am going off topic here. :o

Re: Edit MS Office documents - my solution
 

yes. i think so :)