Penny Pinching Palm

[binidj]

Anyone know of a decent free (or very cheap) office suite for Palm OS 5? I was quite taken by Documents to Go until I saw the price tag ... admittedly it's not a huge amount but then I don't have much of a budget to work with. Another question is, of course, is there any point in getting such software in the first place?

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[westernind.livejournal.com]

DTG is free with Palm? Isn't it?

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Not with a cheap little Z22 it isn't ... sadly.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting to see if I can upgrade 'quick office' which isn't free but I've been using for years on my old M105's and Palm V's. I got a Z22 for xmas and my old version of QO is incompatible. I think it's about $40 to get it new.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I'm currently trying the QuickOffice Word processor which is considerably cheaper than buying the whole package (about £15 if I decide to buy) and seems to work reasonably well ... as long as you aren't trying to edit any documents with complex formatting. QO views such documents well enough but when you send them back all of the formatting needs to be redone. This is a pain if, like me, you had a brain-fart and forgot to do a backup.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had problems with QO like that before. I wrote some letters using QO but when I loaded them up on another machine, the linespacing was doubled and the indentation for the addresses was bollixed.
To be honest though, I bought it mostly for the excel emulator which I use for a household budgeting tool and calculating the time to jumpgate for Fading Suns star ships :-)

I'm awaiting the unlock key for my upgraded copy.

IIRC QO converts docs to HTML and back again, which is where it has the capacity to go a bit Pete Tong on formatting.