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25th August 2006, 23:19
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In an ideal world, you could create a Microsoft Word document on your desktop computer, put it on your Pocket PC, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a .DOC file, with content and all formatting still intact.
This is what Pocket PC users expect from their mobile computers.
Unfortunately, this is not how it works right now. Pocket Word, the "word processor" shipping with all Pocket PCs, is perhaps the biggest disappointment for mobile users: No headers or footers. No tables. No outliner. No on-the-fly spell-checking. Severely limited text formatting. Image support? Barely existent.
What about document conversion then? As soon as you move a .DOC file to your mobile device, all features that Pocket Word cannot process are stripped and thrown away. Basically, just the text in bold, italic, and underline survives, but not much else.
Now there is an alternative: TextMaker for Pocket PCs – the first and only complete word processor for Pocket PCs. Multi-language spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? At your fingertips. Lossless conversion of Microsoft Word .DOC files? Right on your Pocket PC.
TextMaker for Pocket PCs is the most comprehensive word processor ever developed for Windows CE.
Imagine that: Desktop-class word processing on your Pocket PC
Also includes a free copy of TextMaker for Windows, the desktop companion, giving you Word-compatible word processing on your Windows PC as well.
[Only registered and activated users can see links] [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Features
File Handling
Reads and writes numerous file formats – TextMaker for Windows, Word for Windows 6.0/95/97/2000/XP, HTML, RTF, Pocket Word, ASCII, Unicode
Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker and Microsoft Word for Windows – no conversion required, no loss of formatting
Integrated file manager – search documents, open, print, erase them.
Editing Text
Unlimited undo/redo
Search and replace text and formatting
Sophisticated table support
Sort text and tables
Calculations in text and tables
Outliner
Insert fields like date, time, page number, author, auto-numbers etc.
Bookmarks
SmartText: just type "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)
Create forms including text fields, checkboxes, lists, calculations etc.
Formatting Text
All character and paragraph formatting capabilities of a high-end word processor
Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width
Extended paragraph formats like automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control
Headers and footers, master pages (e.g. for watermarks)
Fully-customizable style sheets for character and paragraph formatting
Using Images and Drawings
Insert images in numerous formats (BMP, 2BP, TIFF, PCX, GIF, JPEG, TGA, PNG, PhotoCD, IFF, IMG, PBM, PPM, PGM)
Insert drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
Text, tables, images etc. can be placed in "frames" – the surrounding body text is automatically wrapped around them
Additional Features
Multi-language spell-checking and hyphenation Spelling can be checked either manually, interactively (while you type), or automatically (typos are underlined in red)
Multi-language thesaurus
International dictionaries, hyphenation, and thesauri
Spell-checking and automatic hyphenation for: English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Thesauri (synonyms) for: English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Dutch
Table of Contents, index generation
Footnotes and endnotes
Support for dBase databases (e.g. for mail-merging)
Documents can be encrypted and protected against reading/changing them
Fully customizable keyboard mapping and control strips
Contains English and German versions in one package
Update Description
update to rev 406, WM5 compatible
[Only registered and activated users can see links] [Only registered and activated users can see links]
In an ideal world, you could create a Microsoft Word document on your desktop computer, put it on your Pocket PC, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a .DOC file, with content and all formatting still intact.
This is what Pocket PC users expect from their mobile computers.
Unfortunately, this is not how it works right now. Pocket Word, the "word processor" shipping with all Pocket PCs, is perhaps the biggest disappointment for mobile users: No headers or footers. No tables. No outliner. No on-the-fly spell-checking. Severely limited text formatting. Image support? Barely existent.
What about document conversion then? As soon as you move a .DOC file to your mobile device, all features that Pocket Word cannot process are stripped and thrown away. Basically, just the text in bold, italic, and underline survives, but not much else.
Now there is an alternative: TextMaker for Pocket PCs – the first and only complete word processor for Pocket PCs. Multi-language spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? At your fingertips. Lossless conversion of Microsoft Word .DOC files? Right on your Pocket PC.
TextMaker for Pocket PCs is the most comprehensive word processor ever developed for Windows CE.
Imagine that: Desktop-class word processing on your Pocket PC
Also includes a free copy of TextMaker for Windows, the desktop companion, giving you Word-compatible word processing on your Windows PC as well.
[Only registered and activated users can see links] [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Features
File Handling
Reads and writes numerous file formats – TextMaker for Windows, Word for Windows 6.0/95/97/2000/XP, HTML, RTF, Pocket Word, ASCII, Unicode
Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker and Microsoft Word for Windows – no conversion required, no loss of formatting
Integrated file manager – search documents, open, print, erase them.
Editing Text
Unlimited undo/redo
Search and replace text and formatting
Sophisticated table support
Sort text and tables
Calculations in text and tables
Outliner
Insert fields like date, time, page number, author, auto-numbers etc.
Bookmarks
SmartText: just type "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)
Create forms including text fields, checkboxes, lists, calculations etc.
Formatting Text
All character and paragraph formatting capabilities of a high-end word processor
Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width
Extended paragraph formats like automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control
Headers and footers, master pages (e.g. for watermarks)
Fully-customizable style sheets for character and paragraph formatting
Using Images and Drawings
Insert images in numerous formats (BMP, 2BP, TIFF, PCX, GIF, JPEG, TGA, PNG, PhotoCD, IFF, IMG, PBM, PPM, PGM)
Insert drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
Text, tables, images etc. can be placed in "frames" – the surrounding body text is automatically wrapped around them
Additional Features
Multi-language spell-checking and hyphenation Spelling can be checked either manually, interactively (while you type), or automatically (typos are underlined in red)
Multi-language thesaurus
International dictionaries, hyphenation, and thesauri
Spell-checking and automatic hyphenation for: English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Thesauri (synonyms) for: English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Dutch
Table of Contents, index generation
Footnotes and endnotes
Support for dBase databases (e.g. for mail-merging)
Documents can be encrypted and protected against reading/changing them
Fully customizable keyboard mapping and control strips
Contains English and German versions in one package
Update Description
update to rev 406, WM5 compatible
[Only registered and activated users can see links] [Only registered and activated users can see links]