Known Issues in Pocket Excel on a Handheld PC

ID: Q189502

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Pocket Excel, version 2.0
• Microsoft Windows CE version 2.0 for the Handheld PC
• Microsoft Windows CE Services versions 2.0, 2.1

SUMMARY

This article lists some of the known issues in Microsoft Pocket Excel.

MORE INFORMATION

You may experience any of the following issues when you use Pocket Excel:

• If you select a specific range of cells rather than entire columns, rows, or worksheets in Pocket Excel, many functions, such as sorting, formatting, or filtering, can be processed faster.
• If you print a workbook in Pocket Excel and you receive an error message, you may need to close and open the workbook again before you try to print again.
• If you use the Undo command to undo a command you performed on a large number of cells, you may experience slow performance.
• If you insert, delete, or move a sheet within a workbook, any AutoFilter functionality that you set up may no longer be working.
• When you save a workbook in Pocket Excel, the AutoFilter functionality is not saved.
• When you convert a Microsoft Excel workbook to a Pocket Excel workbook, the AutoFilter functionality is not saved.
• If you created some hidden rows in a Microsoft Excel workbook using the AutoFilter feature, these rows remain hidden when you convert the workbook to a Pocket Excel workbook format.
• Fractions may not be displayed correctly in workbook cells.
• When you add a border to a cell, you cannot change that formatting using an adjacent cell.
• Pocket Excel does not support currency symbols other than the United States dollar sign ($).
• Column IV and row 16384 are the last available column and row in Pocket Excel.
• Column or row formatting may be lost when you convert a file from the Excel format to the Pocket Excel format.
• Some formatting for fonts, font colors, fills, or borders are not converted properly from Microsoft Excel 95 to Pocket Excel.
• Pocket Excel does not support hidden worksheets. When you hide a worksheet in Microsoft Excel, and then convert the worksheet to the Pocket Excel format, the worksheet does not remain hidden.
• Excel files that contain a large number of formatting features may not convert properly to the Pocket Excel format.
• Pocket Excel does not recognize the Microsoft Excel for Macintosh file format.
• Microsoft does not recommend using extended characters in passwords in Pocket Excel documents.
• Excel workbooks lose password protection when you convert them to Pocket Word documents.
• Microsoft does not recommend pasting a password into a Pocket Excel workbook.
• Pocket Excel does not recognize the Excel 97 conditional number formatting feature.
• When you convert a file from Pocket Excel to Excel format, all the Pocket Excel number formats are added as custom formats in Excel.
• When you add a custom number format, it may be displayed as unrecognized characters (blank squares).
• Pocket Excel may not recognize local defined range names in Excel workbooks.

Keywords          : wince handheld pocketexcel kbimu 
Version           : WINDOWS:2.0,2.1
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 19, 1998