08-13-2003, 11:13 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Save �20 Euro/$15 USD on TextMaker - Only Until Sunday!
If you've always wanted to purchase the uber-powerful TextMaker application for your Pocket PC, but have been hesitating due to the price, here's your excuse: until Sunday the 17th, European customers can get it for only �39.95 Euro (�20 off the normal price of 59.95), or $34.95 USD ($15 off the normal price of $49.95). TextMaker is easily the most powerful word-processing tool for the Pocket PC, and at these prices it's a more affordable option. Download the demo today, check it it, and and make your decision before Sunday.
"In an ideal world, you could create a Microsoft Word document on your desktop computer, put it on your Pocket PC, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a .DOC file, with content and all formatting still intact. This is what Pocket PC users expect from their mobile computers. Unfortunately, this is not how it works right now. Pocket Word, the "word processor" shipping with all Pocket PCs, is perhaps the biggest disappointment for mobile users: No headers or footers. No tables. No outliner. No on-the-fly spell-checking. Severely limited text formatting. Image support? Barely existent..."
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08-13-2003, 11:15 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 578
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This is a great product. Highly recommended.
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08-13-2003, 11:32 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 749
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I second that. With Textmaker, I'm able to truly leave the laptop at home when composing reviews, documents, etc.
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08-14-2003, 01:33 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 153
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When are they going to release the spreadsheet?
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08-14-2003, 03:14 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 226
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Although this is certainly a fully-featured product, I found the demo I tried a few months back to be unbearably slow on a Pocket PC 2002 400Mhz device. Is this any faster on Windows Mobile 2003? I'd sure love to ditch Pocket Word in order to retain simple bullet list formatting, but coughing up $35 and using a ton of RAM to see the "spinning disk" for ten seconds every time I launch it isn't really worth it. 
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08-14-2003, 07:32 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by QYV
Although this is certainly a fully-featured product, I found the demo I tried a few months back to be unbearably slow on a Pocket PC 2002 400Mhz device. Is this any faster on Windows Mobile 2003? I'd sure love to ditch Pocket Word in order to retain simple bullet list formatting, but coughing up $35 and using a ton of RAM to see the "spinning disk" for ten seconds every time I launch it isn't really worth it. |
If TextMaker needs 10 seconds to start up on such a device, you probably installed to a storage card -- and a very slow one at that, maybe even \Built-In Storage or the iPaq FileStore. Try it again in internal memory or get a faster storage card, and your experience should be vastly different.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
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08-14-2003, 12:18 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 54
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My question is- how does it handle embedded documents? My company makes extensive use of there fot Customer Information Bulletins, keeping site names and locations, parts listings, and settings in embedded documents. So far, my only resort has been copying and pasting the embedded document back into the original. Since these CIB's may change several times monthly, and I usually have at least 50 of them, it doesn't always (can you saw "never?") get done.
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08-14-2003, 01:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by Lday
My question is- how does it handle embedded documents? My company makes extensive use of there fot Customer Information Bulletins, keeping site names and locations, parts listings, and settings in embedded documents. So far, my only resort has been copying and pasting the embedded document back into the original. Since these CIB's may change several times monthly, and I usually have at least 50 of them, it doesn't always (can you saw "never?") get done.
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Hmm, what are "embedded documents"? If you mean Excel sheets inserted as OLE objects, that won't work on Pocket PCs because they have no OLE support. If you mean something else, try to explain.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
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08-14-2003, 05:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 23
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Downloaded the trial today
I downloaded it to a compact flash card (Viking 1GB) and have had no issues using it from there. Looks promising. It also made me realize how spoiled I am. At the Univ of Texas where I am, I can get XP professional for like $20 bucks. Now spending $35 for a word processor....astounding. So far so good with it....I will probably get it.
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08-14-2003, 06:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 23
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I do have a question on bibliography programs
Not sure if there are any progams like Endnotes or Procite that would work on the PocketPC but does this software or any other software have the ability to work with a bibliography software on pocketPCs? I have an h2210.
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