About Ramesh

Product Manager of Zoho Sheet.

New in Zoho Viewer: Online Document Converter, New PDF Viewer

January 4, 2011 | By Ramesh

There are two important highlights in the recent update of Zoho Viewer

Online Document Converter
New PDF Viewer

1. Online Document Converter

You can now use Zoho Viewer to convert office documents to different formats. For example, you can convert a DOC file to PDF or an XLS file to CSV and so on. Upload your file, select the desired output format, convert it and save it back to your computer. No sign up needed. No installation required. Try the online document converter now at viewer.zoho.com/converter and let us know your feedback.

2. New PDF Viewer

We have a new, improved viewer for your PDF files. This new viewer will retain the original formatting of your PDF files as much as possible. Here is the list of functionality available with our new PDF viewer:

Retain the format of the original document
Page navigation controls
Find text within a PDF document
Copy selected text to your system clipboard

Check out our new PDF viewer and share your thoughts with us.

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How the UK Govt and a Wildlife Reserve are using Zoho Sheet

January 3, 2011 | By Ramesh

With this post, we’d like to showcase two completely distinct but interesting ways in which Zoho Sheet is being used.

1. Data.gov.uk

Uses Zoho Sheet’s

Online Viewer API to open public spreadsheet files on the browser.

The UK government had opened up its data for other people to re-use. This is only about non-personal, non-sensitive data – information like the list of schools, crime rates or the performance of your council.

Data.gov.uk is the first step in creating a network of re-useable government data. It is a key part of the UK Government’s work on Transparency which is being lead by the Transparency Board.

You will find over 5,400 public datasets about how governments spends money. Most of these are in the form of CSV and XLS files.…

Zoho Viewer Updates

November 23, 2010 | By Ramesh

We made a few changes to the Zoho Viewer home page in the last couple of months. The main change is that you can now view a document without publishing it to a URL. This is quite useful when you want to view a private document without publishing it and you don’t have the appropriate software on your computer. However, if you want to publish a document to a URL, you can still do so by using the “Publish this document” setting. There is also a separate form to view a document file already available on a public URL. In this case, the Zoho Viewer URL of this document will be available as long as the file resides on the original URL.

If you are using our bulk upload option, you will notice that selecting multiple files for upload has now been made easier.

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Zoho Viewer now supports WordPerfect Documents

July 11, 2010 | By Ramesh

Zoho Viewer now supports the Corel WordPerfect Document (.wpd) file format. Many of our users had requested support for this file format. There are lot of wpd files actively used in businesses such as for Legal documents, Architectural and Engineering specifications etc. Such documents can now be viewed online without needing to install any software. The wpd file format is supported in our Viewer APIs as well. Here is the full list of supported file formats: http://zohoviewer.wiki.zoho.com/Supported-Files.html

Note: We have a limitation of images not showing up in wpd files. We are trying to support this.

With this update, you will also notice formatting improvements and faster upload time for docx, doc and rtf file formats.

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Spreadsheets for Kids

January 5, 2010 | By Ramesh

We announced the “Insert buttons” functionality few months back. With the power of Buttons and VBA Macros in Zoho Sheet, you can do a whole lot of things that weren’t possible earlier. Here are some sample spreadsheets:

1. Kids Zone

This spreadsheet, titled “Kids Zone”, was created by one of our team members, Senthil. It has a lot of interactive lessons for kids. Kids can learn the letters of the alphabet, and a section for identifying pictures. There are separate chapters for rhymes and stories as well.

Click on
the image below to access the public spreadsheet. You can then navigate to
the various sections by clicking on the buttons in the “HOME” tab.

This Zoho spreadsheet makes extensive use of Images and Buttons.…

Presentation Viewer and API Enhancements in Zoho Viewer

September 26, 2009 | By Ramesh

Here are some of the recent updates in Zoho Viewer:

1. Presentation Viewer

The presentation viewer has been enhanced. We now use Adobe Flash to display the presentations. Here are some highlights:

No more fixed size. The slides now occupy the maximum space available on your browser window.
The slide navigation bar has been enhanced and is now similar to Zoho Show.
You can click on the Play icon to automatically run through the presentation (Auto Play) with 5 secs pause on each slide.
Of course, you have the already existing SlideShow link and a new icon to view it in full screen.
The upload and processing of presentations is now much faster.

Here is a screenshot of the new presentation viewer. Click on the image to open the online presentation.…

New in Zoho Sheet: Insert Buttons, XLSX Support, Time Zone Preference

September 14, 2009 | By Ramesh

Zoho Sheet underwent an update last week with some cool functionality. Here are the new features in this update:

Insert Button:

Buttons which trigger VBA macros can now be inserted into your spreadsheets in Zoho. This opens up a lot of possibilities to create spreadsheet based applications. We would love to see what kind of spreadsheets you create using this. Here is a simple BMI (Body Mass Index) calculator with buttons embedded below. Just fill in your details and hit the calculate button.

To insert a button, look for “Insert Button” under the Insert icon (plus icon) on the
toolbar. You can then assign an existing macro to it or assign a new one by
writing a VBA macro or by just recording a macro.
Full XLSX Support:

Earlier we supported import of xlsx files (Microsoft Excel’s file format since 2007).

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