{"id":303,"date":"2007-05-19T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/windows-mobile-6-office-mobile-for-smartphone-standard-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T08:09:19","slug":"windows-mobile-6-office-mobile-for-smartphone-standard-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/windows-mobile-6-office-mobile-for-smartphone-standard-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 6 Office Mobile for Smartphone (Standard Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Windows Mobile 6 Excel Mobile on Smartphone\" id=\"image302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/wm6sp-excel.gif\" \/>Shortly after Windows Mobile 6 was announced I was under the impression that Office Mobile components for the Smartphone (AKA, <em>Standard Edition<\/em>) were document readers (read-only). It turns out that I was wrong. But, there are a couple of interesting quirks to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>First, as far as I can tell, there isn&#8217;t any way to create a new document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on the Smartphone itself. You can, however, edit a document brought over from a PC.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as you may have read on the news-oriented mobile tech websites, you cannot work with files in the various Office 2007 formats (the ones that end in X like DOCX, XLSX, PPTX). You can, however, save files from Office 2007 to what Microsoft calls the 97-2003 file format that should be able to be used on by Office Mobile in Windows Mobile 6. And, the latest version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataviz.com\/products\/documentstogo\/winmobile\/index.html\">Dataviz&#8217;s Documents to Go<\/a> features the ability to work with Office 2007 file formats (I haven&#8217;t tried this myself to verify this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Windows Mobile 6 was announced I was under the impression that Office Mobile components for the Smartphone (AKA, Standard Edition) were document readers (read-only). It turns out that I was wrong. But, there are a couple of interesting quirks to deal with. First, as far as I can tell, there isn&#8217;t any way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-4T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}