
Section 5B: Increasing Your Productivity 263
Productivity
Word Mobile
You can create and edit documents and templates and save them on your Treo. You can also
edit Microsoft
®
Office Word
®
documents and templates that you create on your computer.
However, keep in mind that some of the information and formatting may be lost when you
save the document on your Treo.
The following features are not supported in Word Mobile:
ⅷ Backgrounds.
ⅷ Picture bullets (regular bullets are supported).
ⅷ Revision marks (documents appear as though all revisions were accepted; if the
document is saved, revision marks are lost).
ⅷ Smart tags.
ⅷ Table styles (some or all of the formatting is lost if the document is saved).
ⅷ Password-protected files (remove password protection on your computer before opening
the file on your Treo).
ⅷ Digital signatures.
The following features are partially supported in Word Mobile:
ⅷ Bidirectional text.
ⅷ File conversions. (Files with Office 2003 extensions [DOC, DOT, and so on] cannot be
saved with Microsoft Office 2007 extensions [DOCX, DOTX, and so on], and vice versa.
However, you can save these file types as RTF and TXT files.)
ⅷ Legacy Pocket Word files (you can open PSW files, but if you edit a file, you need to save
it in DOC, RTF, TXT, or DOT format).
ⅷ Metafiles.
ⅷ Artistic page borders are converted to lined borders.
ⅷ IRM protection.
ⅷ Rights-managed and password-protected file conversions.