Palm Users Now Able To E-Mail Spreadsheet Attachments With Automatic Conversion.Cutting Edge Software Inc. and Actual Software unveils a seamless conduit that will allow users of Palm handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. to automatically convert spreadsheets to the appropriate Excel or Quicksheet format when sending or receiving them as e-mail attachments. The new conduit works exclusively between Cutting Edge Software's Quicksheet spreadsheet software and Actual Software's MultiMail messaging software, both specifically designed for the Palm computing platform See platform. . For the first time, users of Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. on the desktop will be able to e-mail Excel attachments to Palm users with Quicksheet installed - and the files will seamlessly convert to Quicksheet format during synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. . Once received by the Palm users, the attachments can be viewed and edited. Likewise, if they prepare Quicksheet files in the field and want to e-mail them to someone else's desktop when they synchronize See synchronization. , MultiMail will automatically convert Quicksheet files to Excel when they are delivered to the recipient. |
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