Best PDA for Excel

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On 6 Aug 2004 05:14:09 -0700, dimitri_souza@hotmail.com (Dimitri Souza)
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A friend of mine asked me which PDA would best support Excel files.

Any PalmOS machine, OS4 and up.

>As
>I'm a long time Palm user (currently using a T3), I have a very small
>experience with PPCs.

Don't worry. Multiple reviews have found DocsToGo to be a superior
spreadsheet to PocketExcel, with better compatability to Excel on a PC or
Mac than PocketExcel.

>As I'm a Palm fan, I really would like to recommend my friend a Palm
>Tungsten E (for his low budget). However I'm not sure how better (or
>worse) is PocketExcel (PPCs) when compared to Documents to Go 6.
>
>Does any one have already made this comparison?

Go to the DocsToGo site, look for reviews and send them to your friend.
That will solve this matter quickly.
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<yeltrabnhoj@email.com> wrote in message news:4113bf88.7953203@news.individual.de...
> On 6 Aug 2004 05:14:09 -0700, dimitri_souza@hotmail.com (Dimitri Souza)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >A friend of mine asked me which PDA would best support Excel files.
>
> Any PalmOS machine, OS4 and up.
>
> >As
> >I'm a long time Palm user (currently using a T3), I have a very small
> >experience with PPCs.
>
> Don't worry. Multiple reviews have found DocsToGo to be a superior
> spreadsheet to PocketExcel, with better compatability to Excel on a PC or
> Mac than PocketExcel.

I have mixed feelings about DocsToGo (or more specifically, SheetToGo).
I applaud Dataviz for their compatibility with Excel on the PC, and their
synchronization conduit is very well done, but I also get the feeling that they
have rested rather too much on their laurels (i.e. the strength of their synchronization
abilities) at the expense of the Palm-side functionality.

If you need compatibilty with the PC then DocsToGo is top of the pile, however
if you're looking to create spreadsheets on the Palm then DocsToGo is the
bottom of the pile. I mean come on, you can't even hide row and column headers!
Personally I would say that the most fully featured spreadsheet on the Palm is
MiniCalc, followed by QuickSheet, and coming a very, very poor last is SheetToGo.
There is one other that I am aware of that I haven't tested, namely MobiSystem's
Excel, but I can't believe that it couldn't beat SheetToGo as far as Palm-side functionality
is concerned.

Despite the above, I own DocsToGo because of the PC synchronisation, but
their attitute to the Palm-side functionality of their product really annoys me and
I hope that more and more people will start complaining to them about how
pityfull it really is. If they added more functionality to the Palm application then
they would truely have a killer product.

- Julian

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Amen! Agree fully.

"Julian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>
> I have mixed feelings about DocsToGo (or more specifically, SheetToGo).
> I applaud Dataviz for their compatibility with Excel on the PC, and their
> synchronization conduit is very well done, but I also get the feeling that
they
> have rested rather too much on their laurels (i.e. the strength of their
synchronization
> abilities) at the expense of the Palm-side functionality.
>
> If you need compatibilty with the PC then DocsToGo is top of the pile,
however
> if you're looking to create spreadsheets on the Palm then DocsToGo is the
> bottom of the pile. I mean come on, you can't even hide row and column
headers!

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In article <Ge5Rc.4382$nx2.963@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>, Alan N
<URL:mailto:amnast@NOSPAMmindspring.com> wrote:

> Amen! Agree fully.

With what? There was no context before your comment.

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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:29:16 GMT, yeltrabnhoj@email.com was understood
to have stated the following:

>Don't worry. Multiple reviews have found DocsToGo to be a superior
>spreadsheet to PocketExcel, with better compatability to Excel on a PC or
>Mac than PocketExcel.

You know, I have no difficulty in believing that someone else can
produce a better "Excel-to-go" product than Microsoft, which is a
pretty pitiful statement to make when you consider that Microsoft *has
the source code to Excel.* Another fine example of the fine job that
Microsoft does.


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On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 15:07:10 +0100, Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:

> Alan N wrote:
>> Amen! Agree fully.
>
> With what? There was no context before your comment.

Are you so dense that you can't read a malformed post? Just because he top
posted, you literally cannot figure out what he meant?

Sure, it's not as easy to read a top-posted reply. But playing dumb isn't
going to convince anyone to properly compose their posts  

(BTW, you may want to take a refresher course in 'how to post' yourself...
without a smiley or some other indication that you were kidding, your post
really does indicate that you simply don't understand Alan's post.)

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"David W. Poole, Jr." wrote in message ...

> You know, I have no difficulty in believing that someone else can
> produce a better "Excel-to-go" product than Microsoft, which is a
> pretty pitiful statement to make when you consider that Microsoft *has
> the source code to Excel.* Another fine example of the fine job that
> Microsoft does.

Yep, that was my original suspicion! However after playing with Pocket
Excel for 10 minutes, I just discovered that what everybody is saying
is truth: Documents to Go does a better job than Pocket Excel!

So I'm going to recommend to my friend a Palm Tungsten E, which should
be sufficient for his needs (Yes, I'm the one that posted the original
question ;-).

Thanks for everybody for sharing your opinions!
Dimitri

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"Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)" <me8@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In article <Ge5Rc.4382$nx2.963@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>, Alan N
> <URL:mailto:amnast@NOSPAMmindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Amen! Agree fully.
>
> With what? There was no context before your comment.
>

I think he was agreeing that Sheet to Go has poor functionality on the Palm
side even though it synchs well with Excel.

TC

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In article <lOERc.14259$9Y6.5515@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Tony Clark
<URL:mailto:curiousgeorge1964@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I think he was agreeing that Sheet to Go has poor functionality on the Palm
> side even though it synchs well with Excel.

Yes, I was making the point that he was posting upside down and not trimming
to context.

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In article <pan.2004.08.09.06.35.36.31000@NOSPAMFORYOU.hotmail.com>, Lenroc
<URL:mailto:lenroc@NOSPAMFORYOU.hotmail.com> wrote:

> Are you so dense that you can't read a malformed post? Just because he top
> posted, you literally cannot figure out what he meant?

I don't have the time to analyze what he meant. Upside downers tend to be
skipped at best and killfiled for persistence by some.

> Sure, it's not as easy to read a top-posted reply. But playing dumb isn't
> going to convince anyone to properly compose their posts  

But the point has to be made, otherwise how can someone be educated?

> (BTW, you may want to take a refresher course in 'how to post' yourself...
> without a smiley or some other indication that you were kidding,

I pay £2.35 a meg to download the groups. So any untrimmed irrelevance costs
good money besides the irritation of trying to decipher the context. Is it
so unreasonable to ask for a little trimming?

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On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:00:58 +0100, Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:

> I don't have the time to analyze what he meant. Upside downers tend to be
> skipped at best and killfiled for persistence by some.

I agree. So wtf are you doing responding to one?  

> I pay £2.35 a meg to download the groups. So any untrimmed irrelevance
> costs good money besides the irritation of trying to decipher the
> context. Is it so unreasonable to ask for a little trimming?Is it so
> unreasonable to ask for a little trimming?

No, but if you insist on doing so, you may want to get to the point
instead of playing dumb. Or does the upstream bandwidth wasted when you
have to repeatedly explain what you meant not cost you anything?  

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In article <8e8a4682.0408060414.370fd6e8@posting.google.com>, Dimitri
Souza <dimitri_souza@hotmail.com> writes
>Hi,
>
>A friend of mine asked me which PDA would best support Excel files. As
>I'm a long time Palm user (currently using a T3), I have a very small
>experience with PPCs.
>
I gave up on Minicalc (after paying for it) because I found it too
difficult to use.

I am now using DocsToGo - the spreadsheet is OK but it regularly refuses
to file under another name (which I do for backup) claiming that I have
an open sheet when I do not.

BUT the best advice I can give is to look at the T3 because you can use
landscape mode and actually see a reasonable number of your columns.
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The person should have posted part of the original message instead of just
posting an answer/comment.

It makes more sense.

What if the subject of my post was "cellphone usage" and in the body, I
asked about whether it was possible to use a GSM cellphone with a CDMA
service provider. Someone who just posts the answer of "no" without my
original post would cause confusion. So when you read the person's post, all
you see is "no" in the body with my subject of "cellphone usage". You have
no idea what the person is referring to without having to try to find the
post that he answered.



"Lenroc" <lenroc@NOSPAMFORYOU.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:00:58 +0100, Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
>
> > I don't have the time to analyze what he meant. Upside downers tend to
be
> > skipped at best and killfiled for persistence by some.
>
> I agree. So wtf are you doing responding to one?  
>
> > I pay £2.35 a meg to download the groups. So any untrimmed irrelevance
> > costs good money besides the irritation of trying to decipher the
> > context. Is it so unreasonable to ask for a little trimming?Is it so
> > unreasonable to ask for a little trimming?
>
> No, but if you insist on doing so, you may want to get to the point
> instead of playing dumb. Or does the upstream bandwidth wasted when you
> have to repeatedly explain what you meant not cost you anything?  
>
> --
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In article <Ec2Tc.22138$Kx.632714@weber.videotron.net>, Harry Eugene Ly
<URL:mailto:consumers-get-bad-service@bigcompanies.com> wrote:

> The person should have posted part of the original message instead of just
> posting an answer/comment.

See http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

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