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The latest addition to Zoho's ever-growing suite of online office applications wants to make oversized e-mail attachments a thing of the past. [Zoho Viewer][2], as it's called, is a handy way to upload documents and share them with others via the web. Rather than clogging your friends' email boxes with weighty attachments, you can upload them to Zoho Viewer and just send a link.
Viewer supports Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files as well as PDF, RTF, ODF and OpenOffice documents, which means even if your intended recipient doesn't have a particular program installed, they'll still be able to view it through Zoho Viewer. (Here's a [link to one of Zoho's sample docs][1], which is a .pps file)
Using Viewer is simple, just head to the page and upload your file (or files using the "bulk" option). Once Zoho has your document Zoho it will display it at the new permalink. By default all documents are private.
Zoho Viewer has options to share your uploads via e-mail from the site, cut-n-paste links for sending via your e-mail client, embed code for blogs, site and even BB posts. Naturally you can also print or download the original file.
If the file is editable (i.e. not a PDF or the like) there will be an additional link at the top of the page to edit the document using the appropriate tool in the Zoho suite. Unfortunately trying to directly import a document from Viewer into Zoho Writer via the Viewer URL didn't work for me.
With more people turning to online office suites (like Zoho or GDocs) it makes sense to start thinking of your documents as URLs rather than files. Zoho Viewer is not the first app to emphasize this shift -- Scribd for instance offers some similar options -- but it's very well done and makes sharing files a snap. And now a note to all my friends: Stop Sending Me Weird Proprietary Files. Just send links instead.
For more info, check out the demo video from Zoho:
[1]: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/abQcg
[2]: http://viewer.zoho.com/
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