I switched to the 720 from HP and think it is much better than my old Psion. The only complaint people have said in past is the previous inability to have tables in word etc. but that is not the case now. FYI there is a new 728 comming in June 02 with lighter longer battery, 64 megs built in and in 04/03 a dramatically improved 7 series from HP has already been announced that is supposed to be lighter, sleeker, may have built in 802.11 wireless, blue tooth, and run on a 400-550 mghz processor with a new OS upgrade from MS that incorporates the .net and other major upgrades to the CE system.Here is information on word and ce:
FIRST THE GOOD NEWS
Well it seems like there is finally a Word Processing package for Windows CE that has all of the features of our desktop bretheren. Its called ..TextMaker for Windows CE It has.....
"... Spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? Glossary? At your fingertips. The Windows CE version has almost all of the features the desktop version of TextMaker offers!
FILE HANDLING
- Documents can be opened and saved in numerous formats – e.g. TextMaker for Windows, PocketWord, Word for Windows (not included in this beta version), RTF, ASCII, Unicode
- Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker – no conversion required, no loss of formatting
- Integrated file manager
FORMATTING
- Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width
- Extended paragraph formats like automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control etc
- Headers and footers, master pages (useful e.g. for watermarks)
- Fully-customizable style sheets for character and paragraph formatting
IMAGES,DRAWINGS
- Insert images in numerous formats (including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF)
- Insert drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
- Text, tables, images etc. can be placed in "frames" – the surrounding body text is automatically wrapped around them
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- Spell-checker
- Spelling can be checked either manually, interactively (while you type), or automatically (typos are underlined in red)
- Automatic hyphenation
- Thesaurus
- Spell-checker, hyphenation, and thesaurus available in many different languages (beta version includes German and English only)
- Footnotes and end notes
- Support for dBase databases (e.g. for mail-merging)
- Documents can be encrypted and protected against reading/changing them
- Fully customizable keyboard mapping and control strips
... and many more
Now for the bad news...
It only runs on Win CE handheld, from ce 2.0 up to HPC 2000. It is part of a full office suite that will include a spreadsheet plus other apps. Why not on the Pocket PC? My guess is its the screen size issue all over again. (Thank you HP for the Jornada 720)!!
http://www.softmaker.de/anywhere/anyce,en.htm
Link: Softmaker's TextMaker
