Mail Attachments, whats good and whats not so good (ugly!)

[deepteesh dey]

Hi,

I mailed myself with the following common file types some of which we receive everyday, and my reading are the following

.wav = Opens, plays, do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.amr = Opens, plays, do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.doc = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.xls = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.txt = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail. Could open it and edit it later when accessed from office interface.
.rtf = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.csv= cannot open, do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail

1. Could not edit .doc, .xls and .rft,are my astonishment! shouldn't we be able to? Can't I edit a simple log file and put my remarks and send back? Or edit a doc file, which is my everyday job.
2. WP8 Supports playing .amr also in your sms you may record but where is the recorder. AMR is a good format for voice-only recording and its a huge space saver. Why we are not given a amr recorder by WP itself or nokia?
3. Should n't there be a simple wordpad like app which can open any (txt/unicode txt only files with/without basic formatting with extension like log, bak, org). The app may very well disable any macro attached to it.

With Lumia 720 or variant in one hand do we need access to a laptop to open and edit basic .rft, doc files? Is it expected?

Please elaborate and share your views if this concern you

Regards,

DD

 

[WorzelGummage]

Windows Phone is fairly limited in what it can handle with email attachments.

Email attachments FAQ | Windows Phone How-to (United Kingdom)

 

[deepteesh dey]

Windows Phone is fairly limited in what it can handle with email attachments.

Email attachments FAQ | Windows Phone How-to (United Kingdom)

Do we need another app developer to develop something to edit .doc .rtf files?

 

[WorzelGummage]

I've got some .docx and .xlsx files on my 920 that were sent as email attachments and I am able to edit them on the phone. However, older office file types are read only and cannot be edited on the phone.

Microsoft Office Mobile FAQ | Windows Phone How-to (United Kingdom)

 

[vish2801]

Sorry but this is related to file management system of WP and it's very very much restricted. MS should let user access to their personal files. Hope blue update would do some wonders.

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[WorzelGummage]

Sorry but this is related to file management system of WP and it's very very much restricted. MS should let user access to their personal files. Hope blue update would do some wonders.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

That's a different issue than the one being discussed here. We are discussing the different office file types that can be edited which doesn't really have anything to do with the lack of a file manager.

 

[jojapath]

.doc = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.xls = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail
.txt = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail. Could open it and edit it later when accessed from office interface.
.rtf = Opens with Office 2013, but cannot edit it , do not know where it saved, how to access the same file If I delete the mail

The files you can open with Office 2013 are saved in the OFFICE app. You can access them there...

 

[avsef]

As has been discussed ad nauseam here, many .wav files will not play on the phone. It's a huge problem, now 8 months into the platform, that still hasn't been solved (as far as I know.)

 

[Funky Cricket]

there are several codecs to encode .wav, it will play raw wave files, but it looks like no other codecs.
Disappointing it doesn't handle older office types.

 

[vish2801]

That's a different issue than the one being discussed here. We are discussing the different office file types that can be edited which doesn't really have anything to do with the lack of a file manager.

Read carefully, he also wants to know how to access the file, so yes it's also related to storage management issue.

 

[deepteesh dey]

We are more of less on the same page. Are these actually escalated to Microsoft?

Once I had to take refuge of a detour, once I received a .doc file I opened it and copied all the texts (missed badly a select all functionality) and pasted it to a newly created docx and then edited it. But most of the senders are still using office 2003 and that does not directly support docx conversion, so finally I had to copy the same again and pasted in the mail body and send the same. I have noticed using "save as" you can only change the filename and not the type. I don't suppose other freeware office suits have such limitations. When the king is crippled, who helps!

I also could not find a amr recorder app; have seen a number of voice recorder exports audio to library where wav file is appended with mp3 extension and that plays using the music application. I have also seen some of the .wav files (received as mail attachment) actually played and few do not. Do not know the spec of wav that plays.

Also once I receive say a mp3 files as attachment, and I download and listen to it. Now where these files are saved?