Saturday, September 22, 2007

#18 word processing and so on

A quick look at the Zoho options suggests that it has potential - created a short document in Zoho Writer, then pasted it back into Word to see if formatting was retained well. It seemed to have many of the useful options for working with a document that you find in Word so I can see how useful it would be in a library (like ours) that doesn't offer proprietary office software. Hopefully assist with managing user disbelief eg "You mean you don't offer Word!!??" The multiple templates could be of use to some I guess - certainly there've been over 1000 downloads of something (can't recall which - maybe the resume) though in the end for the entire English-speaking, web-accessing population, I guess that's probably not much?

I could see that I could use the Zoho productivity suite to create a spreadsheet, a presentation, to get organised, create a wiki, manage a project, build a database. A taste of Bill Gates plus the wiki option - and given that there are plugins for Word and Excel, you have to like it - a flexible, convenient, interoperable kinda package.

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