05-23-2002, 12:42 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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A rich office suite for Windows CE is on the way!
http://www.softmaker.de/anywhere/anyce,en.htm
SoftMaker Office is on the way, and they have a beta ready to go of their word processor called TextMaker. But don't get too excited yet. It only works on the Handheld PC, including the H/PC Pro and H/PC 2000 devices. Nothing for Pocket PC's.  <!>
"Spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? Glossary? At your fingertips. The Windows CE version has almost all of the features the desktop version of TextMaker offers!" Here is a short version of the feature list:
� Documents can be opened and saved in numerous formats
� TextMaker for Windows, PocketWord, Word for Windows (not included in this beta version), RTF, ASCII, Unicode
� Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker
� no conversion required, no loss of formatting
� Sophisticated table support
� Outliner
� All character and paragraph formatting capabilities you can expect from a high-end word processor
� Spell-checker, hyphenation, and thesaurus available in many different languages (beta version includes German and English only)
� Insert images in numerous formats (including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF) and drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
WOW!  Now that is a word processor. So, do you want this on your Pocket PC? Forget the full office suite for now, which I assume would include a powerful spreadsheet, presentation application and some sort of database. Just think about the word processor alone! How much would you pay for it? Please vote in the poll by selecting the comments link below and vote in the poll. Let's encourage SoftMaker to modify this to work on Pocket PC's! Thanks to Marc Zimmerman for the heads up. Attention Jeff Kirvin - you can only vote once! 
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05-23-2002, 12:52 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Re: A rich office suite for Windows CE is on the way!
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
� Outliner?!?!?!?!?
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That feature ALONE will make this worthwhile for a lot of users.
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05-23-2002, 01:58 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Meaningful competition for MS?
The whole "Office Anywhere" concept described on SoftMaker's web site sounds great.
Is this German firm beating Microsoft to the .Net concept---with a more innovative execution?
On the PPC side, the attraction isn't just the full featured WP, which is very enticing by itself, but the potential integration and synchronization across devices and platforms.
I am eager to give this a whirl!
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05-23-2002, 02:33 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2007
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How many times can I vote if I keep changing my IP address?
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05-23-2002, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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I do a lot of note taking in the meetings using my E-125 and Stowaway keyboard so a full featured word processor for my Cassiopeia will be really nice. I've been waiting for a better word processor for a long time and I hope someone will come out with one soon.
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05-23-2002, 02:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2002
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I think this is another mistake of how not to do software for handheld devices. Perhaps it is barely suitable for the handheld format (wide screen, keyboard) but it is not an acceptable concept for palm devices like Pocket PC, in my opinion.
Microsoft Research has developed some interesting concepts about that kind of office tools for palm sized devices, although these are still prototypes (they are working over Windows CE). I think these new concepts are going the right way.
A Pocket PC is not a laptop !
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05-23-2002, 02:56 PM
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Installing now on my H/PC. I'll let you know how it goes...
-James
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05-23-2002, 03:17 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
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But don't get too excited yet. It only works on the Handheld PC, including the H/PC Pro and H/PC 2000 devices.
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Don't get too excited about the H/PC either. I tried to install, but got an error message that states, "Missing setup binary file Setup terminates..." I notified the company.
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A Pocket PC is not a laptop !
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Sorry, but for me it is. I do not carry a laptop anymore. I choose between my Jornada 568 and 680 depending on what I need to do on my trip.
- James
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05-23-2002, 04:12 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
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Setup problem solved
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Don't get too excited about the H/PC either. I tried to install, but got an error message that states, "Missing setup binary file Setup terminates..." I notified the company.
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We solved this problem by e-mail: Jim had another setup.exe from another app in the installation directory, and that messed up the installation.
To avoid collisions, we'll change the name of the setup.exe file to something else in the next beta.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
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05-23-2002, 04:29 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 92
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Yep, my bad  ops: on the setup. Sorry.
OMG.
I just created a table, a header, and a footer on my handheld. I have wanted this for four years now of using handheld computers.
Yes, we all want this on Pocket PC.
- James
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