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In an ideal world, you could create a Microsoft Word or Excel
document on your desktop computer, put it on your Handheld PC, edit
and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a
.DOC or .XLS file, with content and all formatting still intact.
This is what Windows CE users expect from their mobile computers.
Unfortunately, this is not how it works right now. Pocket
Word, the "word processor" shipping with all Handheld 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.
What about document conversion then? As soon as you move a
.DOC file to your mobile device, all features that Pocket Word cannot
deal with are stripped and thrown away. Not much more than bold,
italic, and a few font variations survive...
Pocket Excel doesn't fare much better: It supports just a
quarter of the mathematical functions of Microsoft Excel and silently
drops the rest when opening an Excel file. Carefully designed charts
are reduced to pre-school drawings or thrown away completely. Would
it then surprise you at all that Excel Mobile does not support any drawing
functions, AutoShapes or cell comments?
Now there is an alternative: In contrast to this "toy
office", SoftMaker Office 2006 offers the full feature
set of a modern office suite:
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TextMaker: Multi-language
spell-checker. Graphics that can be anchored to paragraphs or pages.
Footnotes and endnotes. Tables with built-in calculations. A complete
forms designer. "Track changes" and balloon comments like
in Word 2003. A full-fledged outliner. AutoText. And much, much more!
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PlanMaker: More than 320
calculation functions. Support for complex numbers and array
calculations. Goal seeker. Named ranges. Syntax highlighting. A
powerful charting engine that can display any chart created by
Microsoft Excel. An AutoShapes-compatible drawing layer. And much,
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And most importantly: TextMaker and PlanMaker read and write seamlessly
all Microsoft Word and Excel files. You can take important documents
with you and work on them without losing any formatting or content.
Imagine that: An office suite on your mobile device that works
just like Microsoft Office on your desktop computer!
Download the Free Trial Version
Try before you buy! You can download a free 30-day trial
version of SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows CE here:
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"The undisputed king of handheld word processing."
Steve Clack, Palmtop User magazine
"The list of features
included in TextMaker is far greater than those covered in this
review. Quite simply, there are too many to list.
That, plus the ease-of-use
of TextMaker makes it a Pocket Word replacement,
not just an alternative."
"TextMaker should be on every
Handheld PC user's short list of software to buy."
Clinton Fitch
"The shortcomings of the Microsoft embedded
Office applications are painfully evident. Offering all of the
features of Microsoft Excel for the desktop, PlanMaker turns a
Handheld PC into a fully functional extension of the desktop. What
sets PlanMaker apart from any of its competitors is the plethora of
features and customization that can be done within the application."
hpcfactor.com
"If you do serious number crunching and would
like to take it with you, then PlanMaker is
a must-buy."
pocketnow.com
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