Awesome new feature in Zoho Writer: Document Properties November 14, 2006
Posted by ioannusdeverani in Features, Updates, Zoho, Zoho Writer.trackback
There is a really great new feature in Zoho Writer: the Document Properties. In Microsoft Word, the Document Properties is one of those things I never used; who wants to set meta-data about a document (seriously, until dynamic forms in MS Office 2007, there was no real reason for meta-data)? The Document Properties dialog in Zoho Writer does a very different thing: it allows you to select the default font for the document, font size, margins, and page background colour.
One problem that has plagued Zoho Writer in fonts for a long time is the obnoxious defaultion toward Verdana, which, for real documents, is quite useless. I don’t know about everybody else, but I always use Times New Roman, or a similar font. You could change the font with the little font drop-down, but when you used lists (numbers or bullets), the font would default again. Annoying. Now, I am happy to say, this is no longer an issue! The font stays exactly as it is wanted.
On a different note: WHY THE HECK IS ZOHO NOT USING REGULAR PARAGRAPHS IN DOCUMENTS ANYMORE? When I hit enter, I get a line return, not a paragraph. I go into the HTML and find that there is not even a <p> tag! This was one of the main reasons that I have stayed with Zoho, and not gone to Google, because I love being able to have real paragraphs, not just double carriage returns. I hope this gets fixed soon.
Aside from that, I am very pleased.
Ioannus,
Thanks for the post.
We are currently working on the paragraph thing. Can you tell us how you expect zohowriter to respond when you press enter ? Is it that you want a tag with a line space in between or just move to the next line with the tag.
In IE 6+ we have tag when you press enter, you can check that out.
Ahmed
Hey, as of today (12/1/06), Writer has been behaving very well with the enter key. How I like it to respond to the enter key is with a tag, creating spacing between paragraphs. This, while it may seem of little importance, is one of the most important features to me.
–Ioannus de Verani