Writely - The Web Word Processor
There was a time where I needed to create a document and collaborate at the same time with a collegue of mine. Unfortunately I was out then and the only way for me to do the task is to go to an Internet cafe.
The cafe that I went to didn't have a word processor installed in its PCs except for NotePad and WordPad wherein the functionalities will not be suitable for my requirement at that time. Luckily I know of a site that will allow me to create and collaborate securely over the web. The site: http://www.writely.com.
Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online. Some of the things you can do with Writely are the following:
- Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
- Use our simple WSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
- Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address).
- Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
- View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
- Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
- Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
- Post your documents to your blog.
Writely will work with IE 5.5+ (Windows), Mozilla 1.4+ (Mac & Windows), and Firefox 1.0.6+ (Mac & Windows - except for 1.5b1 on the Mac). You should enable your cookies and javascript.
You simply need to register and you can use Writely at once. You can create a new document, then you can share it with others (only to those you've granted access rights), and you can start collaborating.
Writely gives full control to its users. Users can choose who can collaborate with you, users can select who can view their documents, and users can post it to their blogs right away. Writely also give its users to organize the files by providing three settings - Active for newly created documents, Starred for important documents, Tagged are like folders to organize your documents.
Currently, Writely is in beta and is provided free of charge. So if you need to create a document with formatting, collaboration and publishing capabilities, visit http://www.writely.com. It's like working from home away from home. Have Fun!
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