Article ID: 184222
Article Last Modified on 10/20/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 for the Handheld PC
- Microsoft Windows CE Services 2.0
This article was previously published under Q184222
SUMMARY
This article contains part 1 of the Readme.txt file included on the Windows CE version 2.0 CD-ROM. To view part 2 of the Windows CE Readme.txt file, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
184223 Windows CE Services Version 2.0 Readme.Txt File (Part 2 of 2)
MORE INFORMATION
MICROSOFT HANDHELD PC 2.0 README FILE
(c) 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides late-breaking or other information
supplementing the documentation for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE 2.0
for the Handheld PC (H/PC) and Microsoft Windows CE Services 2.0.
To print this file, adjust your left and right margins to .5 inch
in Page Setup on the File menu.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 GENERAL ISSUES
2.0 MICROSOFT POCKET INTERNET EXPLORER
3.0 MICROSOFT POCKET OUTLOOK
4.0 MICROSOFT POCKET WORD
5.0 MICROSOFT POCKET EXCEL
6.0 MICROSOFT POCKET POWERPOINT
7.0 COMPATIBILITY WITH VERSION 1.0 PROGRAMS
8.0 MICROSOFT WINDOWS CE SERVICES VERSION 2.0
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1.0 GENERAL ISSUES
- For information about printing from your H/PC, see Help in
Microsoft Windows CE Services.
- If your H/PC supports backlighting, you may have a Backlight tab
in Control Panel Display. On some H/PCs, the Advanced button may be
disabled if the device does not support advanced features.
- Cut and Paste between storage mediums is not supported. To move a
folder, you must copy it to the storage card and then delete it from
main memory. The same steps are necessary when moving folders between
two different storage cards.
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2.0 MICROSOFT POCKET INTERNET EXPLORER
- Links to folders from a Web page are not supported. To open the
folder, type the link into the address bar.
- The Back button doesn't go to the previous page if the link to the
current page is in a frame. Instead, the Back button goes to the page
before the frame. Links must be traversed again to get to the desired
page.
- To achieve best results when using the Set as Wallpaper option with
a graphic image on a Web page; do not use the Tile image on
background option from Display Properties. This affects grayscale
devices (both 4 and 16 shades of gray) only.
- If you save a bitmap to a file from Pocket Internet Explorer on a
device that displays only four shades of gray, the file cannot be
properly converted when transferred to a desktop computer.
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3.0 MICROSOFT POCKET OUTLOOK(TM)
CALENDAR SYNCHRONIZATION
- See the "Synchronization" portion of the Microsoft Windows CE
Services 2.0 section for any general desktop synchronization issues.
- Synchronization will copy text (not ink) notes only between the
device and Schedule+ 7.0. Because Schedule+ does not support
ink annotations in notes, these annotations will not be synchronized
between the device and Schedule+, and changing a note in
Schedule+ will remove the ink annotation on the device the next
time the object is synchronized. Synchronization will copy both
text and ink notes between the device and Microsoft Outlook(TM).
- Notes written with your stylus (ink notes) are not synchronized
with Schedule+. The ink will be removed when you next synchronize
your device with Schedule+. Ink notes are synchronized with
Outlook except when they are contained in an appointment that
is an exception to a recurring appointment.
MEETING REQUESTS
To send a meeting request, ensure you have first selected a
default mail transport in Tools\Options. Otherwise, the request will
not be sent.
INBOX
- Meeting requests and attachments are downloaded only if you
select the applicable option in the Service Properties dialog box,
step 3. Note that these options are not on by default.
- If you see "Server error 29" when downloading messages, set the
number of lines to be downloaded to a higher number, such as 100
lines. This may occur on messages with file attachments.
- When moving an Internet mail service linked message, note that
the moved message will not contain the full text or file attachments
unless these are your current default settings. See the Service
Properties dialog box, step 3. Also, the server copy will be
deleted after the move is completed.
- Note that messages in your Inbox are linked to those on the
server, and deleting them on your device will delete them
on the server.
- If you are accessing your e-mail via Microsoft Exchange POP
server support and you want to use meeting requests, be sure to
have your mail administrator select the Download Microsoft Rich Text
check box on the POP3 protocol page. This is needed to receive meeting
requests. Note that this will slow down mail transfer because more
data is sent from the server for each message.
- OLE attachments are not preserved in messages. Only file
attachments are preserved.
- File attachment support with the Internet Mail Service: Due to
limitations of POP3, you will not get file attachments unless you
select the Attachments check box on the Service Properties dialog
box (step 3) and you download a full copy of the message
(Service/Retrieve Full Copy).
- Restore from 1.0 backup: Linked messages are corrupted on restore.
Recreate the same services using the exact same name. Then
use the Service/Clear command and refresh for the service
to download the messages again and restore the links.
INBOX SYNCHRONIZATION
- You should keep the number of messages in your desktop Inbox
as small as possible to reduce the amount of data you need to
download and store on the device.
- Message synchronization: You may receive duplicate messages if
using Message Sync and the Internet Mail service to connect to
the same mail server. It is recommended that you use Remote
ActiveSync to retrieve e-mail when using Remote Networking
rather than Internet Mail to avoid this situation.
- Deleting messages from your Inbox on your desktop computer
or device while you are synchronizing can sometimes cause
messages to become "stuck" in your Deleted Items folder.
If your synchronization status reports one or more items
out of date despite repeated efforts to synchronize, follow
these steps to correct the problem:
1. On the device, move the items from the Deleted Items folder
to the Inbox folder.
2. On the device, create a new folder.
3. On the device, move the items that you undeleted in Step 1
from the Inbox folder to the new folder.
4. Synchronize the device with the desktop PC.
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4.0 MICROSOFT POCKET WORD
- The online Help for how to use templates is incorrect. Template
samples are located in the My Handheld PC\Programs\Office\Templates
folder. To create a template, save a file as a Pocket Word template
in this folder. To use a template, tap New on the File menu, and
then tap Document From Template.
- You cannot open Pocket Word 2.0 files that contain pictures in
Pocket Word 1.0.
CONVERSION TO/FROM POCKET WORD
- The Pocket Word conversion process uses other converters
installed by Microsoft Office. If you receive an error message during
file conversion indicating that a particular converter cannot be
found, rerun Microsoft Office Setup on the desktop and turn on
all filter options.
- When you convert a Pocket Word file on your H/PC to an HTML file
on your desktop computer, the pictures in the Pocket Word file may be
lost. This is due to a problem in one of the converters supplied by
Microsoft Office. This problem is addressed in the Microsoft Office 97
service release (SR-1), which you can download from
http://www.microsoft.com/office.
- When you convert a file from Pocket Word to Microsoft Word .doc
or .rtf format, lists that contain multiple styles of numbering (for
example, where the first line is a number, second is a bullet, and
third is a letter) may be formatted with a single style of numbering.
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5.0 MICROSOFT POCKET EXCEL
- Many operations in Pocket Excel, such as sorting, applying
formatting, or applying an Autofilter, are quicker if you select the
specific range rather than entire columns, rows, or the entire
worksheet.
- The online Help information about using templates is incorrect. Template
samples are located in the My Handheld PC\Programs\Office\Templates
folder. To create a template, save a file as a Pocket Excel template
in this folder. To use a template, tap New on the File menu, and
then tap Document From Template.
- Omitting the second argument in DCOUNT and DCOUNTA results in an
error value. To work around this problem, you can use the cell
reference containing one of the headings of your database.
This will behave the same as if you omit the second argument.
- If printing a worksheet fails and results in an error message,
close your file and reopen it before printing again. Otherwise,
depending on the complexity of the file, the available memory
on your H/PC may be reduced.
- When you undo an action that you performed on a large number of
cells, such as a sort, a slowdown may occur. Close and reopen the
file to work around the problem.
- Inserting, deleting, or moving a sheet within a workbook may cause
the AutoFilter arrow buttons to disappear. To make them reappear,
reapply the AutoFilter.
- AutoFilter activation is not saved with your workbooks.
- Adding a custom number format results in additional custom number
formats that appear as unrecognized characters (blank squares). The
additional formats are usable UNICODE format strings for formats such
as Chinese dates. These special formats aren't displayed until the
user explicitly puts in a custom format.
- Fractions are not always displayed correctly. Pocket Excel does not
correctly limit the digits displayed in the fraction. The underlying
value, however, is correct and can be safely used in calculations. For
example, if you enter 1 5/12 in a cell, Pocket Excel displays it as 1
5/1; however, the underlying value is 1 5/12.
- Border formatting is shown only in the Format Cells dialog box for
the cells you specifically formatted. Even though adjacent cells may
appear to have border formatting in your worksheet, this is not
reflected on the Border tab in the Format Cells dialog box.
- Pocket Excel implements minimal support for local defined names in
order to be compatible with Microsoft Excel 95 and 97. If you must use
local names, you should avoid creating duplicate local and global
names.
CONVERSION TO/FROM POCKET EXCEL
- The Microsoft Excel feature that enables you to change the currency
symbol in the Format Cells dialog box is not supported in
Pocket Excel. Pocket Excel is unable to save files that use
this feature.
- Microsoft Excel 97 supports 65536 rows. Pocket Excel supports 16384
rows. Rows beyond this are deleted upon conversion from Excel 97 to
Pocket Excel.
- Column formatting may be lost during conversion where it
intersects with formatting applied to an entire row. For example,
if you have a row with a nondefault height and all other attributes
are defaults, column formatting information, such as borders,
will be lost where the column(s) and row(s) intersect when
converting from Microsoft Excel to Pocket Excel. If you reapply
the formatting in Pocket Excel, the formatting will not
subsequently be lost in the conversion process again.
- When you convert a file from Microsoft Excel to Pocket Excel,
AutoFilter activation is not retained. However, if your AutoFilter
activation resulted in some rows being hidden, these rows are also
hidden in Pocket Excel. To display the rows, unhide them in Pocket
Excel.
- Microsoft Excel 97 provides a new conditional number formatting
feature. Cells formatted using this feature may not be displayed
properly.
- When converting a file that is formatted with color fonts, fills,
or borders from Pocket Excel to Microsoft Excel 95, some colors
may not convert appropriately. All colors convert properly
when converting to Microsoft Excel 97.
- When converting from Pocket Excel to Microsoft Excel, many formats
are added to the Custom category in the Format Cells dialog box
in Microsoft Excel on your desktop computer. Pocket Excel displays
all number formats it supports.
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6.0 MICROSOFT POCKET POWERPOINT
- Pocket PowerPoint(R) can require a lot of memory to display complex
graphics. You may need to allocate more RAM to Program Memory using
System Control Panel.
- Pocket PowerPoint uses a caching scheme to improve performance
when navigating forward and back through a presentation. To minimize
delays when advancing slides during a show, it is recommended that
you spend at least 5-10 seconds on each slide before advancing to the
next. This will allow the next slide image to be cached and ensure a
quick transition. The size of the cache is directly related to the
availability of Program Memory. Also, this cache is automatically
flushed if another program requests additional memory.
- To display a presentation on an external monitor, your device must have
a VGA port or a compatible VGA PC Card.
CONVERSION TO POCKET POWERPOINT
- The Pocket PowerPoint conversion process can convert Microsoft
PowerPoint 97 (.ppt) files to Pocket PowerPoint (.ppv). It cannot
do the reverse and convert .ppv to .ppt format.
- The Pocket PowerPoint conversion process uses PowerPoint 97
for file conversion. If you receive an error message during file
conversion indicating that a particular converter cannot be found,
rerun Microsoft Office Setup on the desktop and turn on all
graphic filter options.
- Pocket PowerPoint has a choice of three converters: compact,
640x480, and 800x600 output. Each outputs a Pocket PowerPoint
file (.ppv) but provides different quality output inversely
proportional to file size. The compact conversion creates
the smallest files, but the slide images are lowest quality.
The 640x480 and 800x600 produce the highest quality and largest
files. It is recommended that the high quality converters match
the output resolution of your external VGA device.
- During conversion a number of temporary files will be created
in your desktop computers \Windows\Temp folder. Under certain
conditions, these temporary files may not be automatically deleted,
and you may need to manually delete them from time to time.
- "Compact" style file conversion notes:
1. Some complex graphics may cause significant delays during
conversion if they are a collection of ungrouped graphic objects.
For optimal performance, group these graphic images as a single
object before conversion.
2. Check your presentation carefully after conversion. If the
presentation file uses fonts not installed on your H/PC, you
may encounter text wrapping and layout problems. These can best
be avoided by using an H/PC installed font or copying the
additional fonts to your H/PC's \Windows folder.
3. For best results, it is recommended that all text in the original
presentation be formatted with line spacing set to 1 and space
between paragraphs set to 0.
4. Slide background images are copied from the Master and Title Master
Slides and used for all slides in the presentation. If a particular
slide uses a custom background, it will be lost during the
conversion, and the Master Slide background will be used instead.
- Avoid using animations and gradient fills in PowerPoint 97
presentations that you plan to convert to Pocket PowerPoint. The
animation may be partially depicted in the slide image and the
gradient fills may appear different than they would on a PC
with more available colors and higher resolution.
- Microsoft Pocket PowerPoint files (.ppt) only support one-way
conversion. See the Synchronization section under Microsoft
Windows CE Services 2.0 for additional information.
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7.0 COMPATIBILITY WITH VERSION 1.0 PROGRAMS
The following issues have been observed when running existing H/PC 1.0
programs on H/PC 2.0 computers.
FONT DISPLAY
Programs that you used on Windows CE 1.0 for the H/PC are usable and
functional on version 2.0. However, demand for improved clarity and
readability on H/PCs caused two major changes that have had an impact
on how 1.0 programs and dialog boxes are displayed:
1. The system font has been changed to Tahoma 9 pt.
2. The font technology used is now TrueType, which provides programs
much more flexibility and enables enhancements such as zooming.
To ensure compatibility and proper display of 1.0 programs on the H/PC
2.0, every effort has been made to map fonts used in 1.0 program user
interfaces to the closest matching font in terms of size and style
available on the H/PC 2.0. Due to this mapping, your 1.0 programs are
displayed with a smaller menu font and a smaller dialog box font than
H/PC 2.0 programs. Still, because the fonts are being mapped to a font
that is similar though not identical to the 1.0 fonts, you may see one
or more of the following issues in your 1.0 programs:
- Words at the end of option names in dialog boxes are clipped or
missing due to the string being slightly wider.
- The Close button (in the upper-right corner of the program window)
is clipped due to the menu names being slightly wider.
- Button names are not bold.
- In a few cases, the font in your program's main window is mapped to a
smaller or larger font than that displayed in 1.0.
Finally, due to the change to TrueType font technology, any program
that provides a font dialog box in which you can select a font name
and size needs to be updated to provide a list of sizes. If the font
dialog box allows you to specify the size of the font by typing it,
you can specify whatever size you need, and the font will be displayed
correctly due to the scalability of TrueType fonts. If you cannot type
the font size, one point size is provided for you.
TASKBAR
In Windows CE 2.0, you can set your taskbar to autohide. This allows you
to take advantage of the screen space occupied by the taskbar. Some 1.0
programs perform actions that prevent Windows CE from resizing the program
window appropriately. Therefore, when the taskbar is first set to autohide,
the active program does not appear to be resized to take advantage of the
whole screen. Or when the autohide attribute is turned off, the active
program does not resize to accommodate the taskbar. The workaround is to
exit and restart the program (however, this workaround does not always
correct the problems with some version 1.0 programs).
SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
Following are known issues regarding specific programs. The manufacturers
of these products have been contacted, and questions regarding the
availability of updated software should be directed to the manufacturer.
- Microsoft PowerToys 1.0, Pocket Internet Explorer 1.1, and H/PC
Converter Utility 1.0.
PowerToys 1.0 and Pocket Internet Explorer 1.1 are not compatible with
Windows CE 2.0 for the H/PC. In addition, the H/PC Converter Utility
1.0 is not compatible with Windows CE Services 2.0. Please do not
install these programs on this release. PowerToys 1.0 will be updated
in the future, and Pocket Internet Explorer 1.1 is now replaced by
Pocket Internet Explorer 2.0,which is included in Windows CE 2.0 for
the H/PC. Microsoft is currently considering updating the H/PC
Converter Utility.
- ART smARTwriter
When starting smARTwriter, an internal error is reported. After
installing, you can use the inking capability of smARTwriter in Pocket
Word. However, the handwriting recognition does not work in
Windows CE 2.0.
- ART smARTwriter: InkPad
The leftmost character cannot be selected unless you double-tap the
character or use the keyboard. Tapping and dragging will not select
the character.
- Freeware: Pocket Dial4Me
Pocket Dial4Me cannot be minimized by pressing the taskbar button or
by pressing the Desktop button on the right side of the taskbar. You
must close Pocket Dial4Me after using it. In addition, this program
is unable to load the Contacts database because it assumes a
particular sort order for the database, and this sort order has
changed.
- Freeware: Pocket Dial
Pocket Dial cannot be started under Windows CE 2.0 for the H/PC. Check
http://www.windowsce.com for update plans.
- CIC: Jot
On some H/PCs, Jot's inking and handwriting recognition may be slower
than it was on 1.0 devices.
If you are using 1.0 on an H/PC with a wide screen, such as the
Hewlett Packard Palmtop PC, lines will appear to the right of where
you touch the screen. This issue is fixed in Jot 1.02, which is
available now.
When ink disappears (that is, when it's converted to text), it can leave
a gray or white trail depending on what you inked over.
Some dialog text runs off the side of dialogs.
- CIC: QuickNotes
The background color in the thumbnail view is different from the color
in the main window. In addition, the eraser changes the background to
white rather than the original color.
- Shareware: JimmyNotePad
The Symbol font is listed as an option in the Font dialog box.
However, anything you format with the Symbol font will be
displayed in Arial.
- Shareware: JimmySoft Calendar Search
The search completes correctly, but all items show "Error: No date" in
the Date/Time column.
- Landware: TakeNote
Interaction between TakeNote and the Pocket Outlook Contacts database
does not work. You cannot add a new entry to the Contacts database by
using New Contact , nor can the Contacts database be started from the
New Phone form. In addition, in a new Ink Note, if you tap the
Information (I) button, the date appears with block characters.
- Shareware: MG Notes
The Symbol font is listed as an option in the Font dialog box.
However, anything you format with the Symbol font will be
displayed in Arial.
- Odyssey: Pocket OnSchedule
Pocket Internet Explorer cannot be started using the Contacts - Visit
Web Site command. You must instead copy the Web site URL, start Pocket
Internet Explorer from the desktop, and paste it in the Address box.
Dialing options are not available in the Options dialog box.
Default items are not available in the Manage User Lists
dialog box. Note that this problem only occurs on H/PCs with
an SH3 processor (such as Hewlett Packard Palmtop PC and
Casio A-10, A-11).
- Physix: Pocket Chart
The list box on the command bar extends off the right side of the
screen. You can still tap the box to display the list.
You can install Pocket Chart only to internal memory on the
H/PC. You cannot install it to a PC Flash or SRAM Card.
Some characters may be displayed as boxes (unrecognized
characters) in the user interface.
Due to the complex nature of its layout, Pocket Chart exhibits
several of the text issues detailed in "Font Display" in this section.
- Ruksun: Telnet Force
When the taskbar is hidden, Telnet Force is displayed in full screen
mode. This causes the contents of any Telnet site to be displayed in a
font that is unreadable because it is so small. To work around the
problem, clear the AutoHide option and then start Telnet Force.
Ruksun is investigating this issue.
On wide displays, such as the Hewlett Packard Palmtop PC, no scroll
bar is displayed. There are some cases in which the text in the
window is scrolled to the left of the screen so that the left edge
is not visible. When this occurs, the text to the left of the
screen cannot be accessed due to the absence of a scroll bar.
- Shareware: Invaders
This program cannot be started on Windows CE 2.0 for the H/PC.
- SkyTel: Messenger
Messages are delivered with square boxes (unrecognized characters) in
place of carriage returns.
- SpryNet: SpryNet
After setting up the SpryNet transport in Inbox, you must reset the
password you specified when setting up the transport. You can do this
by going to step 1 of the Internet Mail service properties and
retyping your password.
- Symantec: PC Anywhere
While connected to your PC, dragging icons on your PC desktop results
in black trails being drawn on your H/PC screen. Symantec is
investigating this issue.
- Wynd Communications: WyndMail
If you want to change properties after installing the WyndMail
transport, open Inbox, tap Service, ensure WyndMail is selected, and
then tap Properties. If you access the Properties dialog box by
tapping Compose and then tapping Options, the dialog box title is
cut off; consequently, you cannot move the dialog box or tap
the OK or Cancel button.
- Dataviz: Desktop To Go
If you install Desktop To Go after installing Windows CE Services,
the filters are not available in the Tools - File Conversion dialog
box. You must reinstall Windows CE Services after installing
Desktop To Go for the filters to appear in the File Conversion
dialog box.
- Wright Strategies: FormLogic
After completing the desktop installation of FormLogic, use a command
in the main program on the PC to initiate installation to your H/PC.
This command is not available with Windows CE Services installed.
Contact Wright Strategies for an update.
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