Zoho Writer’s New Features Trump Other Online Word Processors
Zoho Writer has rolled out some improvements that see the online word processor’s feature set stealing some thunder from Adobe’s recently released Buzzword.
Whether Zoho’s Writer improvements were motivated by Buzzword is anyone’s guess, but one thing’s for sure, Adobe better start working on their turnaround time if they want to keep up in the online office game because Zoho keeps cranking out the hits.
Zoho Writer now supports pagination, headers and footers and spell checking in 43 languages. Those features might sound familiar to regular readers since they’re the main things we said gave Adobe’s Buzzword the edge over competitors, but that’s not true anymore.
Writer’s new features mimic those you’re accustomed to in desktop word processors. Pagination, for instance, gives you the familiar “page view” found in Microsoft Word, complete with drop shadows on the page breaks. I never realized how much I relied on the visual cues of pagination until I started using online office apps and suddenly missed the pagination view.
The header and footer support in Zoho Writer uses a new button in the toolbar (look for the ‘Page Layout’ icon) and allows you to add headers and footers to your documents using an overlay panel. Headers and footers will print the way you expect and also show up when you export to .pdf or .doc files.
The Zoho blog also claims that there have been improvements to Writer’s import and export of .doc files, but doesn’t list any specific issues addressed.
The one thing that keeps me from using Writer more is simply sloth. GMail has that nice link to view a document in Google apps — anyone know of a Greasemonkey script or something that could inject a similar link, but leading to Zoho Writer?
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