Office Applications?

[zealous42]

Hi,

I'm new to the Blackberry family. I have always owned a windows based PDA or Smart phone. Which allowed me to have easy access to all my programs such as Access, Word and Excel.

My questions are.

1. Will these applications still be available, with my 8830 or is there some software that I need to purchase?

2. Can I access these programs through the VZAccess manger?

3. If I no longer have access to Microsoft office what are my options?

[stevetaz]

Hi:

I too am new and the change has been easy and hard. Here is what I have learned:
1) Depends on what you want to do. It seems the included applications open the Excel and Word documents in a reader. And there it stops. I am not sure about Access. Appears there are no editing capabilities. Note to self....Speak with IT. They said I would be able to edit Word docs. I was able to copy the Word Attachment, albeit crudely, but then I pasted into the MemoPad application to edit. Not at all cumbersome and quite convenient....Not! I am hoping I am just too new to be in the know yet and there is a better way. However, it is apparent this ain't no DocsToGo .
2) Don't have Verizon, but I would be willing to bet there will be a charge...<turn off sarcasm>
3) Again, I am new at this, but I remember Palm app prices. Take a look at this from a quick search. Again, I have to spend some time learning first. I hope that isn't the average price for productivity software.

This looks pretty interesting and it is nice it will save to the card and not use up memory. Looks like it will allow for all your named doc types as well as PDF.

Maybe this is reasonably priced. I wish there were more hours to investigate....

Your mileage may vary.....

Let us know what you find out or decide.

SteveTaz

Originally Posted by zealous42

Hi,

I'm new to the Blackberry family. I have always owned a windows based PDA or Smart phone. Which allowed me to have easy access to all my programs such as Access, Word and Excel.

My questions are.

1. Will these applications still be available, with my 8830 or is there some software that I need to purchase?

2. Can I access these programs through the VZAccess manger?

3. If I no longer have access to Microsoft office what are my options?

[stevetaz]

And how could I forget this more affordible alternative available here at EB...

I am not sure how much in the way of editing it allows, but take a look and look further around the store here as you might find something of interest. I think it is a viewer, but I would be optomistic that the Excel Viewer would have to be better than the weak thing I saw when I opened a file to test. Any software you plan to try make sure they offer a free trial period so you can be sure the app meets your needs before shelling out the cash.

SteveTaz