Quickoffice

Quickoffice from Mobile Electronics has also made a name for itself as one of the leading Palm office apps. The basic version works with Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, and has a charting tool, as well. It goes for $29.95 and works with either Windows or Macintosh computers. Two higher-end versions cost $39.95, but offer different sets of features. Quickoffice Premiere's main selling point is that it can open documents directly, without a hot sync. That means you can receive documents by IR beam, Bluetooth, or as e-mail attachments. It also includes Quickpics, a photo viewer. Quickoffice Pro is like Quickoffice, except that it includes Quickpoint, a PowerPoint viewer. These two higher-pried versions require a Windows PC.


Quickoffice's Quickword displays viewing and editing controls at
the top and bottom of the screen, all of which can be hidden to
give you more room to work.

Quickoffice's Word editor, Quickword, provides a colorful, clear interface that's heavy on customization. Create a new document and controls along the bottom of the screen let you change the background or text colors, change the font or alignment, add bullets, add bold, italic, or underline, and call up a search tool. You can also click to hide the tool bar, a convenient option that gives you more room to work. We also like that it has a scrolling option at the top of the screen that makes the document you're reading scroll automatically. It's useful when reading e-books or long documents.

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