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YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS
SYNCHRONIZING YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE FILES
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CHAPTER
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
1 Connect 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.