syncing MS Word- what happended here?

[Barticus]

I have a document on my computer in MS Word- it has a table in it- I synced it to my Axim, but the table didn't appear... what happened that the table is missing? It's like as if it accepted everything BUT the table when it transferred it to a MS Word for Pocket PC... any idea?

[JakeRich]

Tables are not supported in PocketWord. It was removed during the transfer. If you transfer it back and overwrite the original, the table will NOT be restored. Be careful with it.

If you need more robust word processing try Textmaker from http://www.softmaker.de/tmp_en.htm.

[Double-Trinity]

Originally posted by JakeRich
Tables are not supported in PocketWord. It was removed during the transfer. If you transfer it back and overwrite the original, the table will NOT be restored. Be careful with it.

If you need more robust word processing try Textmaker from http://www.softmaker.de/tmp_en.htm.

Btu keep in mind that due to the crappy nature of the dell foldable keyboard driver, that it will prove nearly useless for you, until a workaround is provided, ro dell fixes the driver, there was a topci i posted about it with this explained more in detail.

however, third party foldables I believe do work. Not sure which you have, or if you even have one.

http://www.fitaly.com

this is a handy stylus text-input app, I can type about 45 or so on it, after about 2 weeks. I'll probably get up to over 50 WPM.

I can type about 100 or so on keyboard though, so I am bummed about the driver problem.

Also, one feature of fitaly doesn't work in Text-Maker: the special macros, tap-and-slide macros work, btu the acronym ones don't. I dont use those, but again that's another disadvantage.

The erason text maker has all these problems is t hat a lot of pocket PC apps are poorly coded, and when you get a desktop-quality app on there, constantly running vearious things, it causes glitches.

This is fairly unfortunate, I know, so I would advise keeping multiple version of the documents, one for transfer to mobile, the other for use on PPC.

If you need to make a table mobile, unfortunately, you will have to make it in excel, convert it to excel format on PC, and then copy it into word =/

I wish thehy could have at least added in a feature where you can embed a table into a document. But the OS has been updated little since the dayts where internal ROM was like 16 Megabytes, so options were severely limited.

[Martin]

Do you know when the conflict between the foldable keyboard driver and textmaker will be resolved?

In the alternative, can anyone suggest a good third-party keyboard...

I hope they resolve it soon because i've just ordered an axim with keyboard and I need a word processor badly!!! (pocket word is apparently rather naff...)

tabten5

[Double-Trinity]

Originally posted by tabten5
Do you know when the conflict between the foldable keyboard driver and textmaker will be resolved?

In the alternative, can anyone suggest a good third-party keyboard...

I hope they resolve it soon because i've just ordered an axim with keyboard and I need a word processor badly!!! (pocket word is apparently rather naff...)

tabten5

This I really don't konw, based on what I hear about the problem it is mostly on Dell's End, there might be a "detour" so to speak on TextMaker's end, but the timeframe for that isn't set in stone.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on this one, but better now than when it's too late to go back is my mentality

This is very unfortinaute also because the hardware aspect of the Dell foldable keyboard is totally awesome, it's a shame the driver is'nt up to par. Hopefullly though if poeple complain a fix might be considered...

What do you actually plan to use the wordprocessor on the go for? If yuo just need it for notetaking, then Pocket Word can work, I am able to make do with just that for the time being, I just make any tables I know I will need over in excel, and then transfer them in later. I konw that is very tacky, but it works. However, using a nifty app called wordcommands, which is freeware, you can give PocketWord much needed command key capability, and using that you can make indendted lists, change formatting, and so forth.


A few things are preserved: images, headers and footers, and margin sizes. Tables unfortunately are lost...

[SoftMaker]

We have been able to work around the problems in the Dell keyboard driver. There is a new service pack for TextMaker and a new trial version as well.

See www.softmaker.com

Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH