Re: Excel 2007 reading .pxl files

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At 24 Jun 2008 08:51:01 -0700 agesofman wrote:


You can use an alternative spread*** program on the PPC that support
more
functions, like Stephen Bye's SpreadCE, or Planmaker from Softmaker
(roughly $30 and $50 US respectively, IIRC, and both offer free trials,)
but the included Pocket Excel should be able to open your .xls files.


Todd
I have had some time to look at this problem further and yes you are
correct, my i-mate will read 'normal' excel files - however the reason I
use
excel files as this was the only no cost way I could figure out to
password
protect individual files (with the palm I used before you could designate
any
file for password protection - so it was a real suprise to me I could not
do
this on a pocket pc device!).

Once I PW protect excel file, I can no longer open it on i-mate.
rgds
bob

That's a poser...

Excel Mobile/Pocket Excel, AFAIK, don't support password protection of .xls
files. You might want to checkout the Excel Mobile alternatives I
suggested- both claim to support encryption (but I don't know if that means
the password protection works across a sync or only on the device itself.
Both programs- Softmaker's "Planmaker" and Bye's "SpreadCE" have free trial
periods to allow full testing.)

Good luck!


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