Monday, November 5, 2007

Week 8, Post # 19 - Web Applications - Zoho

I can certainly can see the usefullness of web applications for documents and spreadsheets. Having documents available online for others in your group to look at and/or edit as needed could be very helpful. It also spares you the expense and computer memory needed to have the MS Office products loaded onto your computer. There's sure to be a way that someone makes money from this, or it won't get developed much further. I know people in the computer industry have been looking for ways to stick it to Microsoft for years.

Using Zoho Writer is as easy as using Office and many of the tool bar buttons look the same. Here are some of the advantages of using Zoho:
Documents can be saved online and so can be accessed from anywhere.
Can export this file as a Word or txt file document
It has an e-mail feature
Can publish document as a public file and also can export it as a .pdf or html.
Can publish document as a post on your blog.
(adapted from Helene Blowers)

It is free and no installation needed. I'm all for that.

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