While many are content to use their Palms as electronic date books, savvy professional users, like the those who read this website, are certainly looking for ways to extend the usefulness of their handhelds. If that's you, you're first purchase should be a word and spreadsheet suite, which will let you edit documents and crunch numbers even when you're away from your desktop computer.

In this roundup, we surveyed the top office apps and found, to our surprise, that they're all fairly good buys. Some have more features than others and offer a wider variety of tools, but they all do a decent job of letting you read and edit documents, then sync them with your computer. The core tools are similar and they're all easy to use.

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--Documents to Go

--Quickoffice

--WordSmith, Office 2004 Professional & Office Companion