Link: Word, Excel & PowerPoint files on your smartphone or handheld. Documents to Go 7, at $40 street, is a wonderful addition to the Treo 650 Palm arsenal.
It reads and displays plain text, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files, and , while editing on the tiny keyboard can be a pain, is a wonderful way to have all of your documents in the palm of your hand, wherever you go. It is a document reader, and you can load any text file on the Treo 650's SD card, for future reference. The FutureLawyer has a copy of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, among many other files, available for instant reference anywhere. Naturally, a notebook computer with a full-size keyboard is preferable; but, when it is impossible or inconvenient to pull out the notebook, the Palm Treo 650 is a serviceable way to have documents available for use. DataViz even provides a free utility that loads most of the hefty little program on the SD card, preserving 3 megabytes of the precious on-board memory of the Treo 650. (It has 32 megs). Now that PDF files have become the standard document format for web transmitted documents, Documents to Go 7 is a great way to store and view them on the Treo 650, the best smart-phone in the universe. It will synchronize with any folder on your computer or laptop, and I use it to store many of my more commonly used legal forms. It is great to have these documents available in or out of court. There are a lot of free ebook readers out there, and they are fine for reading ebooks on the fly. However, if you need to read AND edit, Documents to Go 7 is the way to go. Enjoy.
Rick
You should make it clear that PDF files cannot be opened on the fly....YET. Dataviz just announced (http://www.treocentral.com/content/Stories/681-1.htm) it is coming in the Fall. For now, you can only read a PDF you sync'd into the Treo, but not one that is emailed to you.
Posted by: Miguel M. de la O | September 24, 2005 at 03:32 PM