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2010-02-17
, 06:31
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@ UK
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Originally Posted by rash.m2k
My vintage Palm TX can edit MS Office files - Word, Excel, PowerPoint (with Quick Office). It wasn't in the least slow. The N900 is more powerful
.... but you can't expect it to be really fast it's only a phone. But work OKish.
Full office editing suite in your pocket? What more do you want? A cup of tea and a sandwich?
Personally, I don't have enough need to view Office docs to pay for Quick Office. If there was a version that would edit files as well, I probably would buy it. But, until then I'll manage without (Google docs works pretty well for occasional use).
I'll pass on the tea and sandwich for now, thanks..
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2010-02-17
, 06:39
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@ CA
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#13
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Originally Posted by fixerdave
My concern with that is you need an internet connection. At least with OpenOffice (on my N810), it's actually fairly quick after it's started up.
Why not just get yourself a Google account and upload the Doc(X) to Google Documents? You can read it in "mobile" mode, which works well on a small screen, or edit it in regular mode. The only issue, if you can call it that, is that imported DocX files will export back out as Doc. It works fine on my N810... I can't see it being an issue on something with 3G. Time to move into the cloud... that's what connectivity is all about.
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2010-02-17
, 09:44
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@ Sicily
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#14
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It takes less than one minute to start, indeed. And it's free.
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2010-02-17
, 16:52
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Originally Posted by filbert
You sure? I make nice sandwiches?
My vintage Palm TX can edit MS Office files - Word, Excel, PowerPoint (with Quick Office). It wasn't in the least slow. The N900 is more powerful
Personally, I don't have enough need to view Office docs to pay for Quick Office. If there was a version that would edit files as well, I probably would buy it. But, until then I'll manage without (Google docs works pretty well for occasional use).
I'll pass on the tea and sandwich for now, thanks..
Openoffice via easy debian is very good! QuickOffice is not the same as openoffice - it's like having microsoft office in your pocket with ALL of it's features + more.
OpenOffice can export files to PDF which is quite handy at times!
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2010-02-17
, 17:13
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#16
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My 2006 P990i does it well and fast. Is it too much for N900?
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2010-02-17
, 17:27
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@ Connecticut, USA
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#17
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OpenOffice handles docx. On the other hand, why use docx to begin with? Whenever I get one of those from someone I explain to them that it is much better, for backwards compatibility sake, to set their Microsoft Word editor to always save in doc format. They usually are happy to learn that and readily comply.
Edit: Also, since Microsoft Office now supports ODF, I always send ODF files myself.
Last edited by rm42; 2010-02-17 at 17:39.
Edit: Also, since Microsoft Office now supports ODF, I always send ODF files myself.
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Last edited by rm42; 2010-02-17 at 17:39.
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2010-02-18
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@ Ogre city@Latvia
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#18
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I found that usefull for me: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45027
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Using Nokia N900 32GB+8GB+Westone 3
There are those who tear down others to build themselves up and those who just build
www.Hi-Tech.lv ...a bit of my technology
Using Nokia N900 32GB+8GB+Westone 3
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2010-04-21
, 06:16
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So basically there is no real useful way to edit ms office docs ? that sucks. android and apple and every one else has this working flawlessly. whats our hold up? i am greatful for the work being done on abi word and open office etc: but the word is that they are rather slow and not too easy to use. so where is our user friendly office app for maemo 5? it really seems like Nokia just stuck us with the bare basics of a smart phone and dumped all the heavy lifting in maemo.org's lap. sad.
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2010-04-21
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well the problem is that this platform is pretty new, barely 6 months since n900 was released, android has been released for over a year and iphone for a few years. Native Office editing app will come dont worry, and when it does it'll be better than both android and iphone. in the meantime open office is perfect can handle documents fine.
also dont forget .doc is microsofts own format, they dont hand out the specifications to their formats to anyone, thus its even more difficult to create a .doc editor!
also dont forget .doc is microsofts own format, they dont hand out the specifications to their formats to anyone, thus its even more difficult to create a .doc editor!
David...