Zoho has taken another step in providing offline capability with the announcement that users can now edit word processing documents offline. I’m a bit of a fan of Zoho because I see it as the most ‘complete’ office productivity service provider – by which I mean breadth of coverage rather than feature complete.
Adding offline capability will be welcome for those working on documents online who need to take away and perhaps review. The solution isn’t perfect and is limited to Writer but as TechCrunch says – Zoho is ahead of the pack – even the mighty Google.
You can’t ‘save as’ to create a new version of a document but only save the original document. As far as I can tell you can’t create a new document in offline mode either. It’s also not clear whether the online version is locked while you work offline. This will be important in situations where you are sharing documents.
For those who are working on documents but need to be offline for any period of time then Zoho has taken another positive step forward in the blurring of the lines between online and offline worlds.
You can give Zoho offline a spin by going to this URL and then enter username and password: offlinedemo
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