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Posted by mikes on May 4, 2008, 5:09 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks, Sven. That worked !
"Sven" wrote:
> The device can't 'see' it, or can't open it? There is/was and option setting
> that determined what file types the Excel file open dialog showed. It might
> be set to only display pxl. Can you open an xls if you got to file explorer
> and find the xls and click it?
>
> AFAIK the PPC always supported native xls file types, to accomodate your
> getting one via e-mail unconverted. Same was true for .doc files. The PPC
> was defaulted to saving as the pocket version which was limited in features,
> but also significantly smaller. The conversion from desk to device was done
> by AS. More recently the pocket formats are no longer used on the devices at
> all, so the conversion no longer exists in WMDC.
>
> > Thanks, Todd. Yes, I have tried saving as a .xls file, but then the
> > device
> > can't see it. Maybe I'm hoping for a bit much. The current .pxl file can
> > be
> > seen (and worked on) by both the device and the notebook working on XP/MS
> > Office 2003 through Active Sync. I assumed the notebook working on
> > Vista/MS
> > Office 2007 through Windows Mobile Device Centre would be able to do the
> > same
> > ?. Apparently not ?
> >
> > "Todd Allcock" wrote:
> >
> >> At 03 May 2008 15:26:00 -0700 mikes wrote:
> >>
> >> > Reading MS Word files in Office 2007 seem to be no problem, but I am
> >> unable
> >> > to read the spreadsheet files (.pxl) in Excel 2007. Do I need to
> >> > convert
> >> > them and if so how ?
> >>
> >>
> >> There are two ways off the top of my head- convert them on the device
> >> (open
> >> a .pxl file, select "Save As..." and select .xls in the "type" box) or
> >> just
> >> e-mail them from the device- .pwd or.pxl files are converted when
> >> e-mailed
> >> as attachments on the assumption that the recipient of the e-mail has no
> >> Pocket PC, and therefore wouldn't have the conversion tools (which are
> >> installed by Activesync.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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