Zoho Writer - FAQ

Yes, there are. You can see the list of shortcuts supported in Zoho Writer by using Cmd+/ in MAC or Ctrl+/ in Windows.

Yes, we support writing documents in Zoho Writer in different languages. Now users can create their documents in Zoho Writer in their own native language.

It is an issue with the iPhone as the safari browser doesn't seem to recognize the rich text editor area and hence the keyboard isn't appearing. This is not an iZoho specific problem as all the applications that use a WYSIWYG editor face the same issue. We hope that Apple will address this issue soon and come up with the next version of iPhone's Safari that supports rich text editing. As a workaround, we may give a plain text editor for users to edit/create their documents if this isn't corrected in Safari's next version.

As Zoho services work on a web browser, they are OS independent and should work on all operating systems including Mac & Vista. Please do remember that zoho writer works best on Firefox 5.0 and later versions and Internet Explorer 9 and above. So you can use any of the above browsers in any OS for accessing zoho writer.

We have not tested Zoho Writer on Web TV/MSNTV2 and hence do not provide support for web tv as of now. Some of the features of zoho writer may not work properly on web tv. Sorry about that. Currently you can use a desktop PC or a notebook/laptop for accessing zoho writer.

Yes, we do. If you have installed Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office you can directly edit and save writer document. Kindly visit this following link for further information about Zoho plugin and for download. Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office

Yes it has. In order to use Mail Merge feature, follow the steps given below:

1. Open the document which has to be mail merged
2. Click the Tools tab > Import Data Source, and chose the required option to get your data into Zoho Writer. You can insert a CSV file from your computer, contacts, sheets or pull it directly from the URL.
3. Click on 'Insert Merge Fields' option to include custom as well as fields listed from chosen CSV file and insert it inside your document at desired place
4. Click on 'Email Merged Document' option from 'Finish and Merge' tab , then Select Email id from the list of fields displayed from CSV file,type in details of Subject of your Mail merged document
5. Finally Click on 'Finish' Button to complete the process
6. Document will be mail merged

Note*: Mail Merge has per-day limit of 500 emails for Individual users. And there are no restrictions for Business Users.

Yes it has. Offline mode helps you to edit documents when you don't have an Internet connection. You will have option to select 5 documents from the list of recently created documents to edit in offline.

Zoho allows users to open, edit and save of Microsoft Office/Open Office using the respective Zoho web-based editors.For details refer https://apihelp.wiki.zoho.com/Remote-API-Overview.html

You can digitally sign your documents and email them to others.Simply create an EchoSign account. Then log into Zoho Writer, and click on the Tools Tab >> DigiSign link to send any document you create in Zoho Writer through EchoSign for digital signature. There’s no need to go to echosign.com to send out any document you are using on Zoho Writer.

The docroll feature allows you to list your public documents in your webpage or blog. If you have a list of documents in Zoho Writer which you have Public (Click Share >> Publish >> To External World) and they are residing in the Public Docsfolder, then to list these public documents in your webpage or blog, follow these steps:

1. Click Settings icon on the top right corner of the page and click Doc Roll from the drop-down menu
2. A pop-up will appear with a script, which you will have to add to your webpage or blog for the document to be listed

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