Palm PMG0501000P manual Synchronizing your Microsoft Office files

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Synchronizing your Microsoft Office files

You can create and edit Microsoft Office files on your computer or on your smartphone and then synchronize the files so that changes you make show up on both your computer and your smartphone. How synchronization happens depends on two conditions:

Operating system: Do you use Windows XP or Windows Vista®?

Sync direction: Are you transferring files from your smartphone to your computer, or from your computer to your smartphone?

For information about installing desktop sync software and about synchronizing with your computer, see Installing the desktop sync software.

Synchronizing files that are on your smartphone: Windows XP or Windows Vista

BEFORE YOU BEGIN Turn on the option to synchronize files (see Changing which applications sync).

To synchronize files that you capture on or copy to your smartphone, simply follow one of the procedures for synchronizing with your computer described in Synchronizing with desktop sync software.

After you synchronize, you can view and edit the items on your computer see Where are the changes I made to my file?).

Synchronizing files that are on your computer: Windows XP

1Connect your smartphone to your computer with the USB cable.

NOTE Most ActiveSync desktop software options are available only when your smartphone is connected to your computer.

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