PPc word doc working on a regular computer

[q-live]

i was wondering how can i make a word document from my ppc work on my computer???? i notice when i transfer it over its a .psw file and my computer wont read that.

[Sven Johannsen]

How are you moving the files, and is this not the PC that has AS on it?

If you haven't changed the filter, a psw is converted to a doc by default if transferred using ActiveSync. Check under Tools>Options>Rules>Conversion Settings button>Device to Desktop and look for Pocket Word.

Normally a PC that has Office on it and then has ActiveSync installed on it will have the Pocket Office file formats added to the Office products. Mine show Pocket Word in the open file dialog, but you have to scroll down to it in File Type.

You can always Save As a .doc in Pocket Word.

[Guest979]

I'm a Mac user, so I have to fire up Virtual PC to use AS. So to convert psw's, I would always have to remember to constantly use "Save As" in Pocket Word (can't change default format!!), or use VPC (slow!!). It annoyed me so much that I wrote my own basic word processor in .NETcf that reads and saves RTF files. This is much harder than it sounds (unless you can use the new .NETcf 2.0), because .NETcf 1.1 does not have a rich text control.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Textmaker (http://www.softmaker.com/english/tm_en.htm)?

[Guest979]

Textmaker (http://www.softmaker.com/english/tm_en.htm)?

I should've mentioned that I'm broke (academic MSVS2003 license), and TextMaker is more than I really need anyway.

[Janak Parekh]

The good news is that WM5 did away with the PSW format, and now writes straight DOC. :)

--janak

[pocketpcadmirer]

Well if I tranfer any psw document from ppc to computer without activesync(using card export)..they are *indeed* readable by MS WORD(using office xp).
While opeing them, it will just you a simply warning and just proceed

Sunny

[Guest979]

Well if I tranfer any psw document from ppc to computer without activesync(using card export)..they are *indeed* readable by MS WORD(using office xp).
While opeing them, it will just you a simply warning and just proceed

Sunny

I'm a Mac user. AFAIK no Mac program can read psw, not even Microsoft Word for Mac, with one exception: PocketMac's syncing solution (the deluxe version) includes a reader for psw files. However, I had such a bad experience with their Lite version that I am now committed to Mark/Space's The Missing Sync.

I can't afford MS Office, and besides, I don't want to buy Word (or all of Office) just for use under the painfully slow Virtual PC. WordPad and TextEdit, the basic RTF/Word reader/writers for Windows XP and Mac OS X, respectively, don't seem to recognize psw.

It seems like, for people who use "the normal way" and just drag the files using ActiveSync, it is so easy that the process is virtually transparent. This is actually bad news for the rest of us, though, since virtually no one has been motivated to write an independent psw converter. I think there is a Unix one, but I had a lot of trouble with it on Mac OS X.

[pocketpcadmirer]

Well,then, I think the MS word for mac doesnt support psw files.
I am not a Mac user(using windows from past 10 years) :D

Sunny

[Sven Johannsen]

For MAC users, with Word for MAC. What happens on the PPC if you put a Mac Word doc on a flash card. Can Pocket Word read it? (it can read native Word files fine. What if you Save As and specify Word format on the PPC and transfer via flash card, can Mac Word read that?

You can certainly turn off the translation in AS, leaving Word fils as Word files. You would just need to Save As if you know you want to transfer. Shame you can't set that as a default, that I know of.

[Guest979]

I'm pretty sure that Word for Mac has used the same file format as Word for Windows for a few years now. The issue is that I'm more likely to create documents on the handheld itself, and constantly remembering to hit "Save As" is a hassle. I was also bothered that Pocket Word doesn't have a manual "Save" command, so I felt like I had to keep hitting Save As and overwriting the existing file. I guess it is supposed to auto-save, but that didn't work consistently enough for me, and I was losing data. The word processor I wrote in .NET is just a basic RTF editor, but it reads and writes native RTF files and has both auto and manual saving.