Hi! This is Chris from VitaminCM.com. And today, we’re going to talk about using Zoho applications to create and integrate it online office suite.
When you go to Zoho.com, you’ll notice they have a number of applications available so there’s email, word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, then there’s a document manager, you have a notebook, you can create a Wiki if you want, planning software, if you notice there are some business applications some of this you have the pay view, some of them have limited use but there’s tons of different applications available.
So, what I’m going to do is sign in. When you sign in, you’ll notice they have a pretty nice interface so it signs you into mail initially. I don’t really use the email, I preferred Gmail but you can see there’s a folder as I could see in any email application. They have a calendar application where you can put appointments on, things like that. Documents, if you want to look at any of your saved documents that you have in the system, you can create documents here, you can upload documents from your computer, there’s even a nice Microsoft office plug in so you can just send documents directly from Microsoft office to your Zoho account.
Desktop writer so if you got a writer, it would be creating a word processing document. And you could see they have a nice interface full of options pretty typical similar to word or open office or Google documents whatever you prefer. So, there’s a number of really great applications built in but what is even more impressive is the fact that you can plug different applications, third party application directly into this interface. So, let’s say instead of using their mail program, I wanted to use Gmail or Google calendars or something. I could click here and it would load Google calendar right into the interface or I could click again and load in for instance my Instant Messaging software so I’m using Meebo online and it loads up the Instant Messaging software right up into the middle of their interface if you want to use Twitter, I could just click that and it will pull up Twitter right into the interface. I could just sign in and start using it.
So, if I want to add in an extra application, I just go down to this add ups button, give a title for my application so I want to add in every not because I like that I suppose to Zoho’s note taking application so I’ll type the title of the application, I’ll paste in the URL. If I want to choose an icon, I can I’ll just click okay and accept the one to give me and that’s it, you’ll see it’s a successfully added. So, if I click more and then I select every note it loads every note in the middle of the application and I have all my information there and I could just easily then click to something else like spreadsheet, MO data.
You can also hide the navigator bar so you just click that, click again and bring it back so that’s how you would be able to use the Zoho office sweet to have all their applications as well as any other applications that you’ve had.
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