Can the Note view & edit Word documents? Also...

[artaqaf]

hi all. i have been an iPhone guy for the past 2 years. looking at new options and this Note looks fantastic.

i know nothing about Android's so my question is, can i "Drag&Drop" office documents onto the Note to view them...and if so, can i edit them?? ideally, i have about 1000 word and Microsoft Journal documents i want to keep on it.


thanx! --- art.

 

[derbybirdy]

The Note works really well with Word docs (of all iterations plus Powerpoint & Exec etc.) The Polaris software that is supplied can edit Word, as can Google Docs and Documents to Go. With practice the Swype keyboard can be a very quick way of editing. The most exciting possibility I have discovered is to set the phone as a USB mass storage device and then create a Briefcase folder that can then be used to sync files between PC's and the phone - the phone then in effect becomes a very portable storage device whose contents can be viewed and edited. The Note is a vision of the future of computing - light, fast and versatile. Go for it!

 

[JunBringer]

I would think using Google Docs would be really handy as you won't even need to plug the Note in at all.

 

[pauldockerty]

The Note works really well with Word docs (of all iterations plus Powerpoint & Exec etc.) The Polaris software that is supplied can edit Word, as can Google Docs and Documents to Go. With practice the Swype keyboard can be a very quick way of editing. The most exciting possibility I have discovered is to set the phone as a USB mass storage device and then create a Briefcase folder that can then be used to sync files between PC's and the phone - the phone then in effect becomes a very portable storage device whose contents can be viewed and edited. The Note is a vision of the future of computing - light, fast and versatile. Go for it!

Hi Derbybirdy - I want to do exactly what you are suggesting with my Galaxy Note when it comes next week.

I have, probably several thousand Microsoft Office docs on my work laptop and want to sync these to always have them with me on my Galaxy Note.

How do you set your phone as USB Mass Storage device and does that effect any other software, e.g. companionlink for sync with outlook?

 

[derbybirdy]

@pauldockerty

If you just connect the Note to a PC via USB it will be recognised as phone. You can read and write folders and files easily enough BUT for the phone to be seen as a mass storage device (which you need to do if you want to use Windows Briefcase) you go to SETTING > WIRELESS & NETWORK > USB UTILITIES > CONNECT STORAGE TO PC. The phone (and any SD card in it) is then seen as a disk(s).

As JunBringer says Google Docs can be used as well and now has an offline / sync feature. I would probably use this more often but uploading thousands of files to Google Docs takes some time, I'm not 100% OK with its security yet and you are at the mercy of wifi / G3 connections - but I am sure I will slowly move in that direction.

 

[JunBringer]

Yeah I'm a real sucker for Google Docs. I write all of my lyrics on it usually on my CR-48, but can edit it from any computer or my phone if I'm out and about and have an idea or phrase for a song. It's super handy.