I'm sure that we all have wrestled with ways to open the dreaded .docx file in the past. Even worse is the panic that sets in when a presentation deadline is around the corner and somehow we find ourselves on a computer that does not have MS-Office 2015 with Service Pack #324 installed!
Thankfully, the internet has changed all that. Online productivity tools provide us with the same word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities, without binding us to a specific computer. Google Docs and Zoho Writer are two such popular tools. Both are pretty neat, because not only you can access documents from anywhere, it allows everyone in the group to discuss and edit documents in real-time. This way, everyone can work together without the hassles of emailing attachments or merging different versions of documents.
The first time I used Google Docs was for a group project for grad school. After experimenting with Zoho, I find them to be quite similar in functionality. Zoho however, has a more streamlined interface and is more user-friendly. It also allows for better organization and just looks prettier overall. But since I have been using Google Docs from the start, I will stick to it.
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