From Zoho right to my page!

This document was written online using Zoho Writer. The tools are all laid out on the toolbar -- very convenient and keyboard shortcuts also work. I can't say that I miss Word butting in and

• capitalizing every new sentence

• moving the bullets when the line spacing change
• suddenly overwriting instead of inserting words

I also don't miss that stupid paper clip (though, I always disappear it when I see it). So what are the other benefits to word processing online? The ability to access your document without emailing it to yourself or using a flash drive is really pretty cool. We've had plenty of kids come into Children's, work on a document and then have no way to carry their document away short of printing it. You do have to set this up with an email address which is the only sticking point for some of our kids.

I also like that you can share a document (either read only or read and write), add the individual or group contacts and set up collaboration online. Our LEAP team has worked on several grants collaboratively but we email sections to one another and rely on the Track Changes tool to edit -- it's effective but slow and repetitive and results in too many emails. Reading through the Faqs, it appears that you can edit collaboratively and lock in your sections as you write. (It also computes word count and number of characters when you save!)

I found Zoho Writereasy to use and very appealing. As long as documents are secure (and I always entertain some niggling doubts about that) I would be inclined to use it for specific applications.