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Posted by Paul Murphy on January 16, 2008, 5:01 am
Please log in for more thread options > At 15 Jan 2008 17:52:43 +0000 Paul Murphy wrote:
>> I've decided to experiment with using Activesync 4.5.0 (build 5096) to
> send
>> my Word mobile documents from my HTC TyTN II (Windows Mobile 6 device) to
> my
>> desktop in rtf format. The problem is that AS 4.5 doesn't list docx files
> as
>> a file type it can convert. Instead something called 'Pocket Word
> Document'
>> with a psw extension is the 'word' format listed.
>>
>> Can someone please advise how this works. TIA.
>
>
> In a nutshell, it doesn't do what you want it to. The file converter is a
> legacy plug-in for conveting .doc and .xls files on the desktop to the
> .pwd
> and .pxl "Pocket" formats older (pre-WM5) devices used to use.
>
> WM5 and WM6 save documents in "desktop" format, so these aren't converted
> when synching.
>
> To move .rtf douments to your PC, you'll have to save them as .rtf on the
> device, then they'll sync to the PC as .rtf. Activesync doesn't really
> function as a general purpose file converter.
That's not good news considering AS 4.5 comes with my Windows Mobile 6
device that doesn't even produce psw files (and unfortunately my desktop
Word is to old to handle docx files - hence RTF). Thanks anyway for the
reply Todd.
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