Zoho Writer Update: DocX Support, Thesaurus, Group Sharing & More
Raju Vegesna February 27, 2008 08: 34 am
After adding business friendly features like Pagination, Headers & Footers, Headnotes & Footnotes, Offline Support etc in our previous updates, we are further enhancing Zoho Writer functionalities with today’s update. The highlights include…
- DocX Support
- Thesaurus (in 10 languages)
- Sharing with Groups
- Enhanced Endnotes/Footnotes
- Enhanced Headers/Footers
DocX Support:
Zoho Writer now supports exporting to DocX, the new Microsoft OOXML file format for Word. Ofcourse, we already support ODF Export/Import in Zoho Writer. Currently you can export any of your documents in Zoho Writer as a DocX file. This is added in addition to the already available export options - DOC, TXT, HTML, PDF, ODF, SXW and RTF. We will soon be supporting DocX import as well.
Thesaurus:
We now added Thesaurus option (in 10 languages). Right-click on a word, choose the ‘Thesaurus’ option from the contextual menu to view the synonyms and related words. The current version of Thesaurus is used more for lookup purposes. We plan to enhance this functionality further to replace the words with selected ones from thesaurus in the next version.
Languages supported in Thesaurus: English, Czech, German, Greek, French, Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian & Slovak. We will keep adding more language options in future updates.
Sharing with Groups:
You can now share documents with groups. This makes it a lot easier to share documents with multiple people avoiding entering of multiple email addresses each time you share a document. To share a document with a group, click on ‘Share’ and select the ‘Share with Groups’ tab. You can create new groups in your ‘My Account‘ section. These groups will be visible across all Zoho Applications.
Enhanced support for Endnotes/Footnotes:
As you may know, we recently added Endnotes & Footnotes capabilities in Zoho Writer. This updates enhances this functionality further. All your Zoho Writer documents when exported to DocX, ODF, SXW & RTF will retain the endnotes/footnotes correctly. We now also import endnotes/footnotes from DOC, ODF, SXW, RTF files.
Enhanced support for Headers/Footers:
Headers/Footers support is further enhanced in this latest update. Full support is available when you export documents to DocX, ODF, SXW & RTF.
Apart from these, there are other enhancements and bug fixes in this update. Manual page breaks are also supported in export/import as well.
Do give the latest features a try and let us know what you think.
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It’s great ! Keep rocking !
just one matter, what’s about the Word Count ! I can’t count my docs ! I think it’s a cool function that you should add.
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Glad to see that .docx import will be added soon. I have found a couple online services that will convert them, but they’re not as reliable as Zoho. I’d rather just take care of them right in Zoho Writer.
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Just used the Thesaurus!
Is there a contacts manager? I’ve had limited use of the sharing, but relinking previous contacts was a little clunky.
Need to try out the groups.
-M
I have created and used groups in writer, but I do not see these groups in the wiki application. Should they be there, or will they eventually be there, or none of the above.
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Excellent, I’ll try the new features. Regards,
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@R, We do have word count in Zoho Writer. Whenever you save a document, the word count is shown at the bottom right corner.
Thanks Peter.
@Mike, we have contact manager in Zoho Business. It is not integrated yet with this system. It certainly is on he roadmap.
@misterv, The created groups currently don’t show up all applications. But the plan is to make them visible in all Zoho apps. They’ll be available eventually.
@CTA, sure. Its in the works.
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Come on guys, lets have live word count!
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This is all super, but I really want a WORD COUNT!!!
At least now there will be no confusion with people using office 2007, saving their word doc as docx then coming home to to open the document (without realising they are using office 2003) and being unable to open it.
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The one thing I am concerned with it that the cursor sometimes misbehaves, usually with selecting text. Fix that and I’ll make ZOHO my ONLY word processor.
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Raju, I think what everyone means with this word count request is a set button we can click to see it, Having it show up for seconds on the save doc popup is not clear to people and makes it kinda annoying to click save to see the word count. And some people might not be able to read it in time before the popup goes away if they dont know what to look for.
supports exporting to DocX, the new Microsoft OOXML file format for Word.
Now i can rdit my doc online that there is no ms word in the pc .
Asad ,
Thanks for you suggestions.
We will analyze and provide Live Word Count.
Best Regards,
Ranjith
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With these latest updates Zoho Writer has taken the lead among online word processors. This is a quality product that puts the competition in the shade. Congratulations to the Zoho team! For me the enhanced endnote/footnote, pagination and thesaurus capabilities are really useful additions.
A menu-selectable word count feature would be an advantage, preferably one that could distinguish between counts with and without endnotes/footnotes and headers/footers.
In the “Special Characters” button, I would welcome the possibility to be able to access a wider range of Unicode characters (e.g. in the manner of this feature in Google Docs). Even the access that is provided lacks some of the glyphs now common in most font sets — I’m thinking particularly of vowels with superscript macrons. Nevertheless I do realize that this is probably a VERY minority request!
Thanks for an excellent and dependable product so far. Good luck for the future.
Sincerely,
John Arthur Smith
Thanks for your nice suggestions and kind words, John!
We are working on providing a live word count feature as user’s type their document in Writer. This should be out in our next feature update. Comprehensive word count feature, with and without headers/footers & endnotes/footnotes, is in our road-map and going forward we will provide them too.
The list of special characters are somewhat limited in Writer right now, we will enhance it further by adding more to the existing list as well as provide the option of accessing a range of Unicode characters. Stay tuned!
Regards,
Ahmed
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