I joined up with Zoho Writer and had a play with adding emoticons to text etc. I can see it would be useful if you wanted a group of people to collaborate on a document. It would save all that posting & emailing of drafts. Everyone could use a different colour to add their content. We've come a long way from typewriters with multiple carbons. Although, if there had been wikis & Zoho Writer around in Dorothy L Sayers' day, a vital plot point in her novel, Strong Poison, could never have happened. The nosy secretary (I've forgotten her name) in the pay of Lord Peter Wimsey, deliberately messes up a document she's typing so she has an excuse to stay back after the office is closed. She wants to snoop around for evidence and if she'd had word processing, the mistakes could have been fixed in no time. No opportunity for snooping! Fatal to the classic detective story.
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