Quick Question

[scjjtt]

What year did Documents to Go allow editing for:
a. Word
b. Excel
c. PowerPoint?

Thanks for your help!

[rkevwill]

Pretty much as long as I have owned it. (dunno bout power point) However, from what I remember you had to have the premium version, as opposed to the default version. Now that BB owns them, not sure going forward. This pretty much goes back to my treo days.

[jigwashere]

What year did Documents to Go allow editing for:
a. Word
b. Excel
c. PowerPoint?

Thanks for your help!

For which operating system? Here's history for Palm OS: What's new in Documents To Go for Palm?

Some of the highlights you might be interested in (which I quickly pulled out):

10.002 Premium, Professional, & Standard Edition - Released November 19, 2007
• The first mobile office suite for Palm OS to fully support (view, edit & create) Microsoft Office 2007 files and attachments:
o Edit and create Word 2007 files (previously only supported as "read-only")
o Edit and create Excel 2007 files (previously only supported as "read-only")
o View, edit and create PowerPoint 2007 files (Premium & Professional only)
9.000 Premium & Standard Edition - Released October 18, 2006
• First Palm OS version of Documents To Go to include InTact Technology
o Maintains your documents' original formatting (without the need of synchronization)
• New features in Slideshow To Go (Premium only):
o Create and edit native PowerPoint presentations (available for the first time for Mac users)
o Additional zoom levels added for viewing presentations
o True Type font support including varying type faces and font sizes
7.002 Premium, Professional, & Standard Edition - Released August 16, 2004
• Native support for PowerPoint files (Premium & Professional only)
o Supports PowerPoint for the Mac with native support
6.004 Premium, Professional, & Standard Edition - Released September 15, 2003
• Native Support for Word and Excel Files
Added in 4.001 Professional Edition (build 277) - Released August 6, 2001
• Slideshow To Go (Windows only)
o Open and review PowerPoint presentations on your handheld

[jigwashere]

Here's a better source for the feature history (it's easier to read, for one):
Documents To Go Press Releases

Again, here are some highlights you might be interested in. If you click the link above, you get drill down to get more information:

11/19/2007
DataViz Releases Documents To Go with Office 2007 Editing Support for Palm OS Devices
10/16/2007
Documents To Go by DataViz to Provide Office 2007 File Editing for Symbian Smartphones based on UIQ
9/12/2007
DataViz's Documents To Go Now Offers The Only Way to Edit Office 2007 Files On A Smartphone
7/25/2006
DataViz Launches Documents To Go for UIQ 3.0 on Symbian OS Featuring InTact Technology and PowerPoint Editing
8/6/2001
DataViz’s New Documents To Go 4.0 Software Brings Microsoft PowerPoint Files to Palm Handhelds
10/18/2000
DataViz Enables Editing of Documents and Spreadsheets on Handheld Computers
3/8/1999
Documents To Go™ Brings "Office" Files To The Palm Computing® Platform

EDIT: You probably have to do a better search to get at what you want. For example, I found this when I started drilling into the archive a bit more for version 5 released in 8/02: "Create and edit presentations on the handheld
Presentations can now be created and edited on the handheld. All changes made are intelligently merged into the desktop document after synchronization using DocSync technology."

[r0k]

I've had DTG for so many years. I had it on my Palm devices then on my BB and now on my iPhone and iPad though I use it a lot less now that I have Pages and Numbers.

[hal]

Geez these are rather obscure milestones. When I knew DTG existed, it already allowed edition of Word and Excel, and allowed review of PowerPoint. 1999 or 2000 I think. Just as r0k & jig, I've used it for so many years that I don't even remember by heart the whole evolution of this excellent mobile productivity suite.

In a sideline, I was recently offered by a retailer a good deal for QuickOffice, but I declined. DTG is pretty much all I need when mobile for Office docs.

[jigwashere]

Remember though that the original DTG did not allow editing of native files -- they always had to be converted through DTG desktop. It wasn't until much later that editing of native files was offered. I guess we need clarification from the OP.

[Hook]

Remember though that the original DTG did not allow editing of native files -- they always had to be converted through DTG desktop. It wasn't until much later that editing of native files was offered. I guess we need clarification from the OP.

Editing of Native files, without conversion, dates back to version 6.

[hal]

Yeah, but I think that the very use of native files dates back to version 5 or 4. Before that, all files had to be converted to be used on the mobile device. No native file support.