husky570

Hello, I am running Vista with MS Word 2007 on my desktop and MS Mobile 2003 2nd ed. with MS Pocket word on my Axim.

Here is my question , how do you transfer Word documents between the two? I have had zero success:rolling:

Box

Do you have Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) installed on your PC.
If so, use the explore function and just copy and paste them across.

husky570

Yes I have the Mobile device center, did not see a "Explore" option under any of the options--where can I access this ?

Box

I'm not on vista just now and I don't remember the exact wording.

If you are connected you should be able to open windows explorer and find your device there, then just copy the files to the folder you want to on your device.

husky570

Did that, and copied a document from word on my desktop then pasted it into "My Documents" on my PDA, but when I went to open it , it gave me the "There is no application associated with ....." window on my PDA, also noticed that the document title does not have the little blue "W" icon next to it showing it is a Word doc. but instead shows the little 4 colored window logo next to it --dont know if that means anything, anyways I am stuck ugh!:rolling:

Box

As a temporary fix, try changing the name of the file extension, before you move it from the PC, to .doc
Office 2007 adds an x in front I think.

husky570

I hate to sound ignorant , but how do you do that ?

Box

Right click on the file, select rename, then just delete the x or whatever it is so the the file is called blahblah.doc

husky570

hmmmmmmm, no "x" or anything in the title, not even .doc, just shows the opening sentence of the document and nothing else when I went to rename it.

Box

You must have file extensions turned off.

Just select the complete name and call it, bob.doc

Then copy it to your device and try it.

husky570

k, did that Box, renamed it bob.doc, copied and pasted to "My Documents" on my PDA, found it in "File Explorer" and when attempted to open it gave " There is no applicatin associated with bob.doc run the application first, then open this file from within the application"

Box

First, try a soft reset on your Axim.


Then open the document on your PC, go file, save as
a dialogue box will open with a drop down box that lets you choose the type of file you want to save it as.
Change that to word 2003 or whatever is similar but not 2007.
Click save.
Then try that, by which time I will be at a vista machine and can have a look.

husky570

That did it Box, thanks a million!!!! So now the dillema of transferring Word documents from Pocket Word to Desktop Word 2007--have tried it and when went to open it up it was a weird like hyroglyphics or something with the document spread all helter skelter .

husky570

any suggestions on how I can go about remedying this problem?

genesisfactor

yeah. hey. okay, this is what you need to do. Open the desired document in Word 2007. Go to File>Save As. Keep the document name, but in the Format box, save it as a Word 97-2003 file (.doc). Transfer THAT document. It should open up just fine.

If that doesn't work, save it as a Rich Text Format (.RTF). That's the sure fire way to get your document to open on ANY text editor :).

Deleting the x doesn't' change the formatting which is why you get the glyphs.