What's New

You can now combine revisions from an MS Word document with your Writer document. Your original document and the one your collaborator revised will exist as two different files, making it difficult for you to track what's changed and maintain a master file. The new Combine Revisions feature in Writer solves these problems.

Writer gets a completely refreshed set of color palettes, page borders, table designs and document themes. Learn how you can use Writer to improve the overall document creation experience.

Open your Writer documents or clip references to them using the Writer's Web Clipper Extension.

We have upgraded how Writer makes lists with new collaborative checklists, bullet designs, custom images as bullets, emojis and much more.

Here's a quick recap of Writer in 2017, and a sneak peek into Zia's grammar checking capabilities that will be unveiled in 2018.

Announcing the Writer Open APIs, as well as integrations with workflow automation pioneer Zapier and other third-party cloud drives.

Writer's new dashboard is a one-stop place to view all of your documents and templates. Also, you can now use the search option in the Library to look up fonts that support a particular language.

From C to Swift, work in 13 common coding languages. This option, combined with Writer’s full-featured word processing capabilities, makes it easy to create your own knowledge base on the cloud. Access your code from any device, no matter where you are.

Writer’s iOS and Android apps get comments, better offline support, and an elegant design makeover. It’s cleaner, lighter, and more fun to use than ever!

We're happy to introduce complete support for right-to-left languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Urdu. This update opens Writer to more than 300 million people in 20 countries across the world, and we couldn't be more excited.

Too many changes can often make documents look fouled up. With No Markup mode, you have the freedom to continue working on documents without having to see the strikeouts and additions being made by your editors. And since you have Track Changes turned on, you can still see what’s been added or removed. 

We’re extremely happy to announce newly bulked-up Mail Merge options in Writer. Send emails, letters, labels, or envelopes to up to 500 people at once, without breaking a sweat, and without dogs chasing you.  

HR executives can use it to send interview letters, teachers can use it to send out circulars—Mail Merge makes reaching out to a wider audience really easy. It can even handle minute details, making sure your mail or letter looks custom-tailored for each recipient.

Writer is integrated with WordPress.com’s blogging platform—which means you can create and edit documents, collaborate on them with friends, colleagues or classmates, and post directly to a web page or blog, all from one place.  

Images, layout, and most of your formatting details will be preserved, too. All you have to do is to add your web content and hit Publish.

Writer integrates with Adobe Sign and DocuSign to help you send documents for electronic signature. We wanted to make the current process simpler, and also accommodate additional features and signature fields in both Adobe Sign and DocuSign.

You’ve been asking, and now, after hundreds of thousands of code changes, we’re delivering. Your documents are about to get a lot prettier. We’re extremely happy to finally announce this: Introducing multi-column layouts and more in Writer. Woot woot!

When we released the new version of Writer, many of you wrote to us. You told us that you loved Writer's pleasant writing experience, but wanted to save your documents to cloud drives you or your team have been using.

We're happy to announce that Writer can now be paired with other popular cloud drives for backup*. Save a copy of your Writer document in Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, or OneDrive.

We are continuously improving Writer to give you the best writing experience ever on a Word Processor. Starting from today, we will be launching some very important update bundles for Writer, each baked with some really cool capabilities aimed at solving common problems. Here's a list of all the things we are launching today:

At Zoho, we believe writing should empower you: empower you to persuade minds, move hearts, and take action. Tools that aim to help shouldn’t distract. And that’s how we came up with the idea of creating tools that flow with your style of work, instead of forcing their style on you. Meet the all-new Zoho Writer!

Preview the all-new Zoho Writer to see our cleaner, more stylish, and more intuitive interface. With a brand new look, comes a whole new approach – introducing modes, a simpler way to write. The Compose mode gives you a space to write without distractions. Switch to the Review mode when it's time to add other people to the equation, and get feedback from your peers. When you're done, reach your audience with the Distribute mode.

Team collaboration can be tricky at times. With multiple people editing the document at the same time, you are often left in the lurch, puzzling over the new changes made since you last visited. While the version history helps you track down the different versions made since you last opened the document, it is time-consuming to identify the edits in the latest document.

While creating user guides, technical documentation or hierarchical headings in legal documents, the need to have numbered headings to generate a structured TOC becomes important. Manually entering the numbers for every heading is simply tedious. To create structured documents, you can use two types of heading lists available in Zoho Writer.

Track changes control is now extended to all the collaborators (with read/write access) of a document. So, it doesn't matter if you are not the owner or the co-owner of the document, you still can switch on the track changes and make the edits in the document.

Zoho Writer gets a face lift with a brand new theme. You can now add images from various sources like Google Search, Flick, Picasa and others. You can also maintain an image library of all your previously used images!

Breathe in life into your document with colorful shapes and text boxes. Explain complex business processes with flowcharts, and create creative cover pages using shapes. Get started and reshape your documents!

Working on the go just got easier! Introducing the all new Zoho Writer app for iPhone! The iPad app also gets better. Now not just view and edit files in your iOS device, you can also create new documents and sync them to your cloud accounts.

Get hold of all the errors in your document in one glance. The status icons at the end of your document now can tell if your document has any errors or not. You can click on the icons and fix all errors without manually editing each word.

Collaboration takes a step further with the introduction of “@mentions” in comments. While earlier, it was possible to add comments in a shared document to share your feedback or inputs, now you can direct those comments to specific users in the document or outside, to pull them into your discussion.

A seamless integration between Zoho Writer and MS Word, so all your tracked changes stays just the way it was when you import or export. So, no matter where you edit, your changes are visible wherever you view it.

With the new 'Widows and Orphans' line breaking options, control the way your paragraph content splits across pages to avoid straggling lines at the top and bottom of the page.

Online or offline, work never stops. When you are not connected to the internet, you can now access and edit your documents offline. When you are back online, Zoho will let you to synchronize the modified documents with the online versions.

Collaborating is no longer restricted to your organization. You can share document as links to people outside your organization and they can easily access the file and collaborate, without creating a Zoho account. Every file that is shared can be password protected to create a safer environment for collaboration.

Your document is always in your control. With Track Changes turned on, every change your collaborators make to the document appears as a colored markup. It highlights each insertion, deletion, formatting change, or comment and provides you control over the document as you can selectively accept the edits and discard the ones that don't seem appropriate.

You can now navigate directly to the unread comments in a document. In addition to modifying or replying to the comments, you can also resolve (close) comment threads when you’re done with them.

Zoho Writer for iPad is a powerful, feature-rich offline text editor that helps you create beautiful documents on the go. Creating and editing documents is made easy with the smart built-in editor. Documents created can later be uploaded to Zoho Docs/Dropbox and accessed anytime, anywhere.

No document update slips your attention. Choose to receive email notifications, and keep track of every change made to your document. Quit regular visits to your document as Zoho Writer keeps you updated all the time.

You can quickly insert the current date into the body of a document as well as in the header and footer. The date is automatically updated to the current date and helps you eliminate the tedious chore of manually deleting prior dates.

Pagination allows you to visualize page breaks while you’re editing your documents. Native printing is available in Google Chrome Browser and gives the best printing experience.

Zoho Writer Android App allows you to create impressive documents seamlessly with its intuitive user interface and rich set of features. You can either save these documents in local device, in MS Word format or push them to cloud devices like Zoho Docs, Google Drive and Dropbox. This app also allows you to open MS Word documents in your device.