Create free online Microsoft Word & PDF documents and download them

October 21, 2009, Category: Internet, Software

Zoho Writer - an online free software to create Microsoft Word and PDF documents If you want to create or edit Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx formats) and PDF documents without having installed Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you may do so absolutely free by using the online software offered by Zoho Writer. In fact, Zoho Writer allows you to create many other type of documents free online through its powerful interface.

Zoho Writer is an online word processor with excellent features. It allows you to create and share documents online, including those in Word format and PDF format. All you need is to connect to it online with your browser and you don’t need to install any software on your computer. You can create a free account at Zoho Writer for using its online document services. Or else, you can also access it by using your Google Account, Yahoo! Mail Account or the Google Apps Account; in that case, the verification of your user name and password will be done at Google or Yahoo! and those sites will authenticate you to use Zoho Writer.

Zoho Writer can help you create online documents with several rich features which you find in any commercial software. Just to have a feel of the high quality of the document created at Zoho Writer, take a look at this Welcome document in the PDF format (694 KB) that has been prepared with Zoho Writer. You can also download and save the same document from Zoho Writer in Microsoft Word format. For downloading a document, after having prepared it online, you’ve to choose Export function that will allow you to select the file format, including Word format and PDF format.

Also have a look at the interface of Zoho Writer:

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Zoho Writer has several rich features:

  • You can create, edit, format, save documents online with a powerful WYSIWYG editor.
  • These documents can be saved online. You can also download and save their offline copies on your computer, after doing which, if you so wish, you can delete your online copy of a document.
  • You can export (i.e., download) the documents to your computer in Microsoft Word format (DOC and DOCX formats), PDF format, Rich Text format (RTF), Text format (TXT), Web page format (HTML), OpenOffice format (SXW) and Open Document (ODT) format. This means that you can easily create documents in these popular formats and download and save them to your computer. It may be pointed out that it supports export (i.e., download) of documents to your computer in PDF format; however, as of now, support for importing PDF files into Zoho Writer is not available.
  • You can also import (or upload) documents from your computer in Microsoft Word format, or in any of the RTF, TXT, HTML, JPG, GIF, PNG, SXW or ODT formats.
  • Directly view, edit and save documents available on the Internet. There is no need to download these documents to your computer and then open them using some software on your computer.
  • Access, and share your documents online from anywhere with any person of your choice using your email address.
  • You can post your documents directly from within Zoho Writer, to your blogs at WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad, etc.
  • Publish your documents online on the Internet for public view by any person.
  • View your document’s revision history, compare its versions and rollback the document to any earlier version of your choice.
  • You can write your documents using the Page View Edit that enables you to edit them the way you wish to see them in print.
  • Zoho Writer has a rich collection of readymade templates and you can easily create your document by using a template from this Template Library.
  • Tag your documents with topic name or subject name or any other name, for easy access.
  • Periodic auto-saving of your documents to prevent data loss.

Zoho Writer thus has easy-to-use excellent features. Moreover, it is free and is available online which means you can access it from anywhere and from any computer.

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  1. Kirsten November 13, 2009 8:35 pm

    Zoho is a wonderful program I didn’t know about it. Thanku- nice article.

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