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NOVEMBER 12, 2002 PC WORLD PRODUCT REVIEW Office in Your Pocket Dataviz's new Documents to Go 5 Premium offers a broad roundup of Palm applications
For instance, move a Word document with animated text effects into Documents' word processor, and they won't be visible. When you shuttle the edited file back into Word, however, the formatting extras are still there. What's more, Documents' roundup of apps is the broadest of any Palm suite: It does word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, image and PDF viewing, and e-mail. Most of the time, it handles them readily, though the features in my shipping version were a tad erratic. On the plus side, the word processor supports tables well, the spreadsheet does charts, and the e-mail program neatly hands off e-mailed photos to the image viewer. But it's less of a full-blown writing tool than Blue Nomad's WordSmith (there's no spell checker, and the font display is spartan). Finally, while Documents' presentation module lets you do some rudimentary editing, wrangling a PowerPoint slide show on a palmtop screen is just as ungainly as it sounds. At 2MB, Documents To Go is portly for a Palm software app, and its $70 street price is almost double that of $40 competitors Iambic Office and Cutting Edge Software's Quickoffice (the $50 Documents To Go Standard offers just the word processing and spreadsheet modules). Then again, Documents To Go Premium does more than the other guys do -- and you can try out the full version for 30 days before you buy.  By Harry McCracken Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | NOVEMBER |
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