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iPod touch MS Office Docs

DSimmer

DSimmer

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Does anyone know if there is or soon will be an application that will permit MS Office doc's to be transferred to the Touch? FileMagnet would be a good start but it doesn't have PC support. I've been a user of QuickOffice on the Palm platform for years and that kind of capability would be ideal.

I want to retire my Palm m500 and once I have this capability it can happen.
 
DSimmer said:
Does anyone know if there is or soon will be an application that will permit MS Office doc's to be transferred to the Touch? FileMagnet would be a good start but it doesn't have PC support. I've been a user of QuickOffice on the Palm platform for years and that kind of capability would be ideal.

I want to retire my Palm m500 and once I have this capability it can happen.
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Eleven seconds in Google gave me:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPod_touch_Features_Guide.pdf - Page 57

http://itouchtips.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/ipod-touch-document-viewers/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071122124847AAAwjPL&show=7

Knock yourself out :D:cool:

Tim
 
Thanks for the reply but you're not telling me anything I don't already know. Readdle provides off-line capability but using Safari to browse the doc's is a kludge and you need to upload your doc's to their server first.

I was hoping for something similar to what FileMagnet does but with a PC and preferably with the capability to edit doc's.
 
I'm not sure it will be for a while. I have noticed not many apps on the store supporting Microsoft at all. For example no msn support (that i have found) in any instant messaging apps. I don't think their will be any official one with out jail-breaking it
 
I'm also waiting for this. Check out Mariner Calc, they're allegedly working on the Excel/spreadsheet end of things for offline editing, etc which was supposed to be ready for release around the same time 2.0 was released, but so far I haven't seen any recent mention of it. OpenOffice is also allegedly working on a release too, but there's no recent word out of them either. Guess we all have no choice but to be patient, until I see something I can use, I'm not going to update to 2.0. I have zero use for webapps, and to be honest, the concept escapes me if you're a Touch owner.
 
Word processor: Notes for now, Being developed by many devs... (I hope)
Excel: Being developed by many devs right now... (I hope)
PPT: Being developed by many devs right now... (I hope)

I think we will see it, just in time. Retire that Palm now & get an iPod Touch, or an iPhone 3G if you want to replace your cell phone too & just have 1 device in your pocket (ie, a sexy, beautiful, kissable device by the name of iPhone 3G!)
You will find that notes will do you for the small time that there is no real word, PPT & excel apps, but file magnet, etc are in-the-mean-time apps that you could also get.

Good luck!


SuperMacMan
 
Thanks to all that responded. I've had a Touch for ~4 months now and I'm waiting for MS Office support before I can retire my Palm. I was using Notes for a while but I lost everything after a restore, so I'm patiently waiting for something that sync's with my PC's files.

Datacase looks like it's the most promising solution in the short term since they have published a release date at the end of this month. I'd still like to see a QuickOffice solution - they've been supporting Palm, Handspring and all the other major smart phones for years. I've been a long time user of their spreadsheet app on my Palm and it's superb. They recently started supporting Crackberry, so I'm expecting they will announce something for the Touch/iPhone soon.

If anyone sees any announcements, please post to this thread.
 
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