Zoho has just added a feature to Zoho Writer that while may not seem like anything big, will be really helpful to a select group of people. What they've done is added the option for users to import documents from Google Docs to Zoho Writer. The group of people who this will be really helpful to is those who started using Google Documents at one point or another but now use Zoho.

Google Docs just added what I consider to be a feature that is needed to help bridge the gap between desktop and online word processing. They added a page view (as expected) that is typical of any desktop word processor, and it's almost like getting a live print preview while you work. To access the new setting go to the View menu, and select the fixed-width page view option.

Google actually made an interesting move yesterday in terms of how people can collaborate on the spreadsheets they create. If you take a look at the Share tab in one of your Google Spreadsheets you'll notice a new option towards the bottom that's new. With it you can share a spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone and everyone which, as Google OS points out, essentially makes this a wiki.

Back in September, we wrote about "The Ultimate Steal" from Microsoft because they were offering students the option to purchase Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59 bucks. Considering it retails for $680, this deal is a 91% discount. At the time they said the offer would end on April 30th, but as it turns out, they extended the offer a few days and now its set to end on May 16th, a week from today.

Over the last several months we've seen a lot of growth in the web-based office applications arena. Between Zoho and Google Docs, all kinds of features have been added which make using the applications even easier and more second nature.

While Google's Presentations application has been nice, it has been missing one important feature.  That feature is the option to save presentations in the PowerPoint format (PPT). Today that changes because Google now supports PPT files. This means that users will be able to open the presentations that they create with Google, in Microsoft's PowerPoint.

Last November, Zoho announced that they were adding offline editing support to Zoho Writer using Google Gears. We mentioned how ironic it was that Zoho was using Google's service (Google Gears) to make the offline editing support available, yet Google still wasn't offering any type of offline editing or synchronization option for Google Docs.

A few weeks ago we posted an article about some of the tools Google uses internally. In the presentation that Google gave there was (inadvertently?) a screenshot of a Google Docs that was not available to the public. In it we saw a more complete menu structure located above the recently revamped toolbar. Well, they just added those menus to everyone's Google Docs.

A recent blog post over at the Google Docs Blog explains a new way that Google is taking collaboration even further by giving developers the opportunity to create gadgets for Google Docs.

I couldn't believe my eyes this morning when I read this post over at Google Blogoscoped. It appears that some of the backend for an Easter Egg has been added to Google Docs to make fun of the "thing" Microsoft created back in Office 97 dubbed Clippy. I know, it's a touchy subject for me as well, but the code in Google Docs points to the Google "Cliply" that you see pictured to the right.