Sonya 1Zoho Writer: A Free Word Processor
February 23rd 2010 19:12
New freelancer writers can't afford to splash out lots of money on software, but using a powerful word processor is non-negotiable. Luckily, today writers don't have to buy apps like word processors anymore. They don't even need to install office applications on their machines - there are online applications that allow you to create and edit documents in your browser.
Zoho is a full online office suite with apps for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. There's also email, chat, a wiki, notes, a document management application and a whole suite of business apps - the invoicing application in particular might be worth a try. There are free versions of all Zoho products for individual use. The free version of Zoho Docs offers 1GB of storage space; the 5GB version is 3US$/month.
Zoho Writer is the word processor of this online office suite. It offers all the features you need to format a document. It is compatible with Word and Open Office documents and allows you to export your files as .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .swx, .odt, .html or .txt.
Zoho Writer has a few really useful features. It saves documents as versions, so if you need to revert to a previous version, you can do simply choose it in the history view. This view also allows you to compare two version with one another. You can post documents to your blog. If you collaborate with other people on a piece, you can share it with them. Instead of many people making changes in their local copies, you can find everybody's changes in your Zoho doc.
I find online word processing very useful. Not only can I access a file from any computer with an internet connection, online word processors are also a good way to back up your work.
I wrote this blog post with Zoho Writer. I haven't tried any of the other apps yet, so I can't say anything about them. I like Zoho Writer, though. The only down-side I could find is that Zoho doesn't support Safari. It works fine in Camino and Firefox, so it's no big deal.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with Google Docs - Zoho Writer is better.
Zoho is a full online office suite with apps for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. There's also email, chat, a wiki, notes, a document management application and a whole suite of business apps - the invoicing application in particular might be worth a try. There are free versions of all Zoho products for individual use. The free version of Zoho Docs offers 1GB of storage space; the 5GB version is 3US$/month.
Zoho Writer is the word processor of this online office suite. It offers all the features you need to format a document. It is compatible with Word and Open Office documents and allows you to export your files as .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .swx, .odt, .html or .txt.
Zoho Writer has a few really useful features. It saves documents as versions, so if you need to revert to a previous version, you can do simply choose it in the history view. This view also allows you to compare two version with one another. You can post documents to your blog. If you collaborate with other people on a piece, you can share it with them. Instead of many people making changes in their local copies, you can find everybody's changes in your Zoho doc.
I find online word processing very useful. Not only can I access a file from any computer with an internet connection, online word processors are also a good way to back up your work.
I wrote this blog post with Zoho Writer. I haven't tried any of the other apps yet, so I can't say anything about them. I like Zoho Writer, though. The only down-side I could find is that Zoho doesn't support Safari. It works fine in Camino and Firefox, so it's no big deal.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with Google Docs - Zoho Writer is better.
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It seems I can make changes to existing docs now and import docs, but I still can't copy text from one doc and paste it into another. I can, however, copy text from Zoho docs and paste them to TextEdit and Pages.