Documents To Go is an office suite

Office suite

In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers...

 for Palm OS

Palm OS

Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...

, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...

, Maemo

Maemo

Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

, Blackberry OS

BlackBerry OS

BlackBerry OS is a proprietary mobile operating system, developed by Research In Motion for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices...

, Symbian OS, Android, and iOS. Also, a larger-screen version would have been included with the Palm Foleo

Palm Foleo

The Palm Foleo was a planned subnotebook computer that was announced by mobile device manufacturer Palm Inc. on May 30, 2007, and canceled three months later. It intended to serve as a companion for smartphones including Palm's own Treo line...

, but Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

 cancelled the device before its release. The desktop tool, which provides document synchronization between one's handheld device and one's computer, is available for both Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 and Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

. On 8th September 2010, it was announced that DataViz had sold the program along with other business assets to Research In Motion

Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...

 for $50 million.

File capability

There are four version of Documents To Go available for Palm OS. The current version is 11.

• Documents To Go Standard is compatible with Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
  
   and Microsoft Excel
  Microsoft Excel
  Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
  
  .
• Documents To Go Professional adds compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint
  Microsoft PowerPoint
  Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
  
   and is included with most shipping Palm devices.
• Documents To Go Premium adds a PDF, JPG and BMP viewer, and Excel Chart compatibility, as well as a spell checker.
• Documents To Go Total Office adds Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
  
   PIM synchronization and Microsoft Access
  Microsoft Access
  Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...
  
   database synchronization.

Documents To Go is also available for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and 6 Standard devices.
This version includes support for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, a PDF viewer and enables users to decompress zip files.

Documents To Go is also available for Symbian UIQ and Symbian Series 80 devices running the Symbian Operating System.

Documents To Go is also included with BlackBerry devices running BlackBerry Device Software 4.5 or higher. Upgrades are available for purchase, adding creation of new files and PDF support.

Features

Documents To Go for Palm OS has both a desktop tool and a handheld tool. The handheld tool can open Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

 files from expansion cards, as well as its own compressed format from expansion cards or main handheld memory. It can edit the files, as well as format text font, color, size, and style, and has other features common to office suite software. The Premium edition can open and create Excel charts. The Slideshow To Go component can open native PowerPoint files, as well as those converted to its own format. However, it cannot edit or save native PowerPoint files, and does not support animations or sound.

The desktop tool automatically compares the desktop version of a file stored on the user's computer and the handheld version of the file. If they do not match, it applies changes made on one version to the other version, transferring the document to or from the device's memory.

Misleading iTunes Description

The description that can currently be found for the 'Office Suite' version of the software states that the product supports "Access, use & sync files stored in Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, iDisk & SugarSync", however this is not the case. Only the 'Premium Suite' provides this functionality for additional cost.

See also

• List of word processors
• Comparison of word processors
  Comparison of word processors
  -General information:This table provides general information about selected word processors.-Characteristics:This table gives characteristics of each word processor.-Operating System Compatibility:...
  
  
• Office Open XML software
  Office Open XML software
  This is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, a Microsoft document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.The list here is not exhaustive.-ECMA-376 1st edition implementations:...