Thing #13

I had never heard of the Zoho Writer before this class. I never knew there was a way to create documents, tables, and spreadsheets through an application on the internet! If I had know this I probably wouldn't have wasted all that money on the software to install Microsoft Word 2008, when I could have made the exact same documents and more on the Zoho Writer. It was super easy to sign up and I had no problem finding the applications. All the gadgets were set-up almost exactly like Microsoft's software.

For my first experiment using Zoho Writer, I wrote a short essay and I discovered that I could change the font, size and even position. Zoho Writer had all the same functions and gadgets that Microsoft offers. I could send the document straight to my email or even print it out directly from the internet. I didn't find many differences between Zoho Writer and Microsoft Word. Next, I explored more options at the top of Zoho Writer called "switch to" that included applications like Zoho notebooks, Zoho chat, Zoho docs, Zoho mail, Zoho sheet and much more. I tried making a sheet through Zoho that was very similar if not exactly the same to the Excel program on Microsoft. I used the Zoho sheet to create a list of all the activities I had to do for the next month. It was very fast and efficent to use! The only negative I found was that Zoho Writer doesn't save my document automatically like Microsoft does. It was very frustrating getting pop-ups to save while writing a document. All in all, I found that Zoho Writer was a very useful tool that I could see my self utilizing in the future.