Edit Zoho Writer offline
Posted by Jacque on November 27th, 2007
In August, Zoho made its Writer software available offline. At the time the documents were available in read-only mode when offline. Now Zoho has announced, you’ll be able to both view and edit your documents offline, using Google’s open source project Google Gears.
You’ll need to have Google Gears plug-in installed on your browser (quick and easy). It works on Firefox 1.5+ and IE 6+.
“Click on ‘Go Offline’ to access your documents offline. By default, we download 15 documents each from ‘My Docs’ and ‘Shared Docs’ section. You can change the default setting by clicking on the down arrow beside ‘Go Offline’ link. The documents are downloaded based on the ‘Sort Order’ in your ‘My Docs’ section,” advises Raju Vegesna at Zoho.
When you are not connected to the internet, there is a link where you can access and edit your documents offline. When you are back online, clicking on ‘Go Online’ will let you to synchronize the modified documents with the online versions.
Not all online functionalities are available in offline mode because some are online specific, while others will make their way into the offline mode in the future.
Take a look at the video to see how it works.