7/24/2005 06:18:00 AM|||morituri|||

I have been using Dataviz's Documents To Go for a few years now. Each successive version has brought more features, bringing closer and closer the goal of native (i.e. no conversion) reading and writing Microsoft Office documents on the handheld PDA and smartphones.

I recently discovered that the latest version (7.006) has the ability to view Microsoft Powerpoint slides in native format. I downloaded a bunch of Powerpoint files from Oreilly's conference website and copied them to my SD card. Most of the graphics and text are rendered accurately. Simple and brilliant.

You can now deliver one-on-one presentations from your Treo. I highly recommend that you use Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule (10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 point font size), for maximum legibility and effectiveness.

If you're a Mac user, the latest version supports Powerpoint for Mac, too. So if you have a Treo 650, make sure you register your copy of DTG with Dataviz in order to download the latest version.

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