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Zoho Writer updated, now compatible with DocX files

Online office suites are gaining some serious steam, and Zoho Office (along with Google Docs) remains one of the innovators in the market. Today, Zoho has released an update to Zoho Writer, their online word processing application.

The biggest highlight of the update is the added support for Microsoft's OOXML file format, mercifully titled DocX. In case you didn't know, whenever you save a Word document, PowerPoint file, Excel spreadsheet, etc...in Office 2007 (or 2008 on a Mac), the default format is DocX.

Zoho Writer now allows you to export your documents as a DocX file – though it looks like importing a DocX file is still a short time away.

Other notable feature updates include:
  • Thesaurus (available in ten languages)
  • Groups: Share documents with multiple people without having to enter in multiple email addresses each time you share a document.
  • Enhanced support for endnotes, footnotes, headers, and footers.
It looks like the line between online word processing and desktop word processing just got a little thinner. How about you, constant reader? Have you made the leap to online word processing? Sound off below.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Internet, Office, Productivity, Google, web 2.0

Zoho Writer adds offline features

Online office suites seem to be all the rage these days. ThinkFree, Zoho, and Google all have word processing and spreadsheet applications that you can access from any computer with an internet connected web browser. But what do you do when you're taking your laptop on a plane or train where there's no Wi-Fi signal?

Zoho has just announced the ability to access Zoho Writer documents offline.



The funny thing is that Zoho has enabled offline reading using Google Gears. Google, on the other hand still doesn't haven an offline mode for its Docs & Spreadsheets office suite.

For now, you can read Zoho documents offline, but you can't write them. Zoho plans to add full read/write/synchronization capabilities within the next few weeks.

[via Read/WriteWeb]

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