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GaryHT627	2010-02-19 , 01:52
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I am hoping KOffice will be real soon because I don't trust the cloud, so google docs is not an option for me. For now, I use my Mac for this but that won't hold for ever.

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	rm42	2010-02-19 , 03:35
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Originally Posted by GaryHT627

I am hoping KOffice will be real soon because I don't trust the cloud, so google docs is not an option for me. For now, I use my Mac for this but that won't hold for ever.

Well, there is always OpenOffice.org from Easy Debian. That is what I use.

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maemo.it	2010-02-19 , 03:54
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hi to all, but an office for N900 doesn't exist yet?
is there a working project?
I think OO from debian easy is too heavy for n900 (of course, it's born for a pc, not for a umpc like this nokia device)

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LuckTR	2010-02-19 , 04:02
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Originally Posted by rm42

Well, if you are going to use Web Apps, then you could use Google Docs. It works just fine with the built-in browser.

Right, but...I am heavy on PowerPoint and guess what. Majority of presentations I use to handle are around 5 MB. This appears to be a problem for GDocs making my them absolutely unusable in my case. MS or OO is the only way if you do PP. CU o_O

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	debernardis	2010-02-19 , 05:53
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I advice you to try easy debian and openoffice.org. You can decide if it's usable enough for you. No damage to your device and you can uninstall the packages if you don't like it.
Easy debian will allow you to have a whole lot of new apps - several of them work reasonably well on the tiny display of our devices.

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peio	2010-02-19 , 11:19
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In easy debian, you can install Abiword (word-like) and gnumeric (excel-like) which are much faster than open office and really usable

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maemo.it	2010-02-19 , 11:25
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Originally Posted by debernardis

I advice you to try easy debian and openoffice.org. You can decide if it's usable enough for you. No damage to your device and you can uninstall the packages if you don't like it.
Easy debian will allow you to have a whole lot of new apps - several of them work reasonably well on the tiny display of our devices.

I prefer to wait a specific version!

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Dirty Harry	2010-02-19 , 11:34
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Slightly offtopic perhaps, but is there any working, free way of just viewing MS-office doc's on the N900??? Google docs, okay, but uploading docs from your phone just to read them is too much except in real emergencies.

I know of Freoffice but it's on a very early stage, and didn't install for me, complained there were two packages missing, so I decided to wait for it to mature a bit.