One of the perks of owning a Windows Phone 7 device is the ease and accessibility you experience while using products made by Microsoft such as Windows Live, Internet Explorer and MS Office. With the Mango update just round the corner, and developer versions available for anyone through a simple hack, this ease of access just increased manifold. You can now use SkyDrive much better than before in the IE9, and Office got an upgrade to its 2010 version. However the latter upgrade comes at a little cost. Now it is not possible for Mango users to edit Office files saved in older versions (97-2003). You can view them, but no editing is allowed unless your document is 2007 or later (for avoiding data loss according to MS). This can prove to be quite an inconvenience at times, so here’s a workaround for editing older Office docs in WP7 Mango.
The workaround might seem to be a bit too obvious and completely inefficient, but it works nonetheless.
Instructions:
Open the IE9 present in your Mango phone and access your SkyDrive just like you would from a PC.
Navigate to the file in question (i.e. the one in 97-2003 format) and right-click on it.
From the opened menu, choose to open the file with Office Web App. When prompted, convert to 2010 format.
Now without doing anything close the Web App and SkyDrive.
Go to the Office hub and now you can access the troublesome file right from your SkyDrive.
The workaround might seem to be a bit too obvious and completely inefficient, but it works nonetheless.
Instructions:
Open the IE9 present in your Mango phone and access your SkyDrive just like you would from a PC.
Navigate to the file in question (i.e. the one in 97-2003 format) and right-click on it.
From the opened menu, choose to open the file with Office Web App. When prompted, convert to 2010 format.
Now without doing anything close the Web App and SkyDrive.
Go to the Office hub and now you can access the troublesome file right from your SkyDrive.
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