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July 29, 2009 04:46AM
Not sure where to post this.

I recently upgraded my phone to a HTC Touch pro with Windows Mobile Office. I love it so much it's a wonderful phone.

I went to school for computer applications from 96-98, but everything I learned is obsolete. The excel on my phone is pretty basic, and I mad a list of my June shops just to play around and learn. I have an 8G card with my phone which I saved my june log onto. When I tried to open it on my computer using Excel Viewer it said could not open that type of file. Any suggestions?

My assumption is that there is an issue because my phone came with a disk that contains my owners manual and other programs used to sync my phone and computer. My disk drive is broken on my computer so I can't install the disk. I've been looking for an external drive or someone who could repair it cheaply but so far $80 is the cheapest I've found and I'll have to wait a couple weeks for that.


Also, after I get my bugs worked out....anyone willing to teach me a thing or two about using Excel??

Thanks,
Lynlee
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July 29, 2009 05:43AM
For the moment I would attempt to email mysel the Excel file from the phone. When you attempt to open the attachment, Excel will attempt to find some way to open it. Try the various options offered to see if one will work. If you are using gmail as your email, Google's version of a spreadsheet may be able to open the file as well.

If you have a friend with a working CD player you may be able to copy the files onto a thumb drive and load through a USB port.

Replacing a CD player is pretty straightfoward if you are not scared to open the box. My experience has been that most often there is nothing wrong with the CD player but rather drivers have corrupted, something in the operating system has changed and it is no longer 'seeing' the drive or somehow the connection with the drive has jiggled loose.

Worse comes to worse, an external CD-ROM can be bought on Buy.com for about $26 (http://www.buy.com/prod/black-usb-2-0-24x-external-cd-rom-drive-for-laptop-pc/q/loc/101/208718385.html). You would have to go up to about $60 for a read/write CD drive. A visit to the clearance area of your local office supply store that carries computers and accessories may yield an external CD drive at a reasonable price that is perfectly serviceable.
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August 03, 2009 07:24AM
I did get an external. My computer is so old I was too afraid to open it up. I downloaded the 60 day trial of Microsoft Office, but Outlook is not working correctly and neither is the Active Sync that came with the phone. I need tech support, I just haven't had time to stop at the store that my go-to guy works at. Hopefully sometime this week I'll get it figured out.
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