Editing Word2007 document in Office Mobile 6.1

[Bob]

I hope this is the correct forum. I can't find a forum for Office Mobile
software.

I copied a 2 page document (docx) to my device. When I open it in Office
Mobile 6.1 I get a notice that it is protected and I can not edit it. I can
only view it.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

There is an update for Office Mobile that will let you edit Office 2007
documents. I'm assuming that you've either installed the update, or that it
came on your device (released 28 November 2007, so probably the former):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1f-51e2-42f0-ba32-69bb7e9a3814&displaylang=en

However, the 6.1 upgrade isn't sophisticated enough to be able to edit
documents that are password or rights protected. If you're trying to edit
such a file, you will need to unprotect it first using the desktop version
of Office 2007.

 

[Bob]

I'm not sure, but the problem seems to be that the document has a Table of
Contents. If I create a document on my laprop with out the TOC I can edit it

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Hmmm... I have not hit that problem. I just placed a .docx file onto my
smartphone (SCH-I760). It has a table of contents, and it opens just fine
for editing.

 

[Bob]

Could I email my document to you and have you try it?

 

[Bob]

I just noticed something. I created a Word2007 document om my laptop and
saved it at 6:30 AM. After I copied it to the storage card of my device and
opened Moble Word 6.1 it appears as 1:30AM (no date) in the file date column
of the file open screen.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Sure.

Another possibility is that the file contains other elements that Office
Mobile 6.1 can't handle. Send to herb at herbtyson dot com.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

That sounds like a different issue. Are the names of the time zones the same
on your laptop and smartphone? You can have the right times set, but if
Windows thinks the time zones are different, then it will adjust the time
stamp on the document accordingly.(I find that if a document is dated today,
then Mobile Word displays just the time; if it's dated earlier, then it
displays just the date.)

 

[Bob]

Both my laptop and Device are set to Eastern Time (GMT+5 hours). I just
created a file in Office2007 and saved it at 9:06AM. Using WMDC I copied it
to my device and it shows the correct time. When I open Word Mobile 6.1 it
shows the time as 4:06AM. It appears to be subtracting 5 hours from the file
time.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Right... which made me think that one of the devices might "think" it's in a
different time zone.

I looked at the file you sent, and the problem is the content control
container that encapsulates the TOC and TOC title. A plain TOC field without
the content control container does not create the problem. I'll have to
experiment some more, but my guess is that Word Mobile 6.1 isn't quite smart
enough to deal with documents containing content controls.