Documents To Go is
BlackBerry
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's
cross-platform
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office suite
Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintin ...
for
Palm OS
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. ...
,
Windows Mobile
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,
Maemo
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,
BlackBerry OS
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,
Symbian
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,
Android, and
iOS
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. Also, a larger-screen version would have been included with the
Palm Foleo, but
Palm, Inc. cancelled the device before its release.
The desktop tool, which provides document synchronization between one's handheld device and one's computer, is available for both
Microsoft Windows
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and
Mac OS X
macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...
. On 8 September 2010, it was announced that
DataViz
DataViz, Inc. is a software company located in Westport, Connecticut. They currently sell Docs To Go and DailyBalance. The company has been in business since 1984 formerly selling apps such as Passwords Plus, MacLinkPlus, RoadSync, and Conver ...
had sold the program along with other business assets to
Research In Motion
BlackBerry Limited, formerly Research In Motion (RIM), is a Canadian software company specializing in secure communications and the Internet of Things (IoT). Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartpho ...
(now doing business as BlackBerry) for $50 million.
File capability
There are four versions of Documents To Go available for Palm OS. The current version is 11.
*Documents To Go Standard is compatible with
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor program, word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platf ...
and
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android, iOS and iPadOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a ...
.
*Documents To Go Professional adds compatibility with
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, developed by Microsoft.
It was originally created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially ...
and is included with most shipping Palm devices.
*Documents To Go Premium adds a
PDF
Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...
,
JPG and
BMP viewer, and Excel Chart compatibility.
*Documents To Go Total Office adds
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft 365 software suites. Primarily popular as an email client for businesses, Outlook also includes functions such as Calendari ...
PIM synchronization and
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational database, relational Access Database Engine (ACE) with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsof ...
database synchronization.
Documents To Go is also available for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and 6 Standard devices.
This version includes support for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, a PDF viewer and enables users to decompress
ip file.
Documents To Go is also available for Symbian UIQ and Symbian Series 80 devices running the Symbian operating system.
Documents To Go is also included with BlackBerry devices running BlackBerry Device Software 4.5 or higher. Upgrades are available for purchase, adding creation of new files and PDF support.
Features
Documents To Go for Palm OS has both a desktop tool and a handheld tool. The handheld tool can open
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...
files from expansion cards, as well as its own compressed format from expansion cards or main handheld memory. It can edit the files, as well as format text font, color, size, and style, and has other features common to office suite software. The Premium edition can open and create Excel charts. The Slideshow To Go component can open native PowerPoint files, as well as those converted to its own format. However, it cannot edit or save native PowerPoint files, and does not support animations or sound.
The desktop tool automatically compares the desktop version of a file stored on the user's computer and the handheld version of the file. If they do not match, it applies changes made on one version to the other version, transferring the document to or from the device's memory.
See also
*
List of word processors
*
Comparison of word processors
*
Office Open XML software
This is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, a document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.
The list here is not exhaustive.
ECMA-376 1st edition implementations
The ECMA-376 1st edition ...
References
External links
DataViz website
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BlackBerry software
Palm OS software
Pocket PC software
Windows Mobile Standard software
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
BlackBerry Limited
Symbian software
Office suites