Wms Thing #13

I have just completed the navigation processes between both Zoho Writer and Google Docs.  Google Docs gets my vote.  While Zoho site has an abundance of tools and applications for business purposes, navigating through those applications are as easy as I presumed.  To compare the two resources, I made a spreadsheet planning the summer vacation of my friends and I.  Both products provided the necessary information to establish a budget, share information on each of our choices, costs, and expenses.  Google Docs actually had the template with formulas readuly available.  I appreciated that I was able to manipulate the data to acually fit some of the costs that we may possible incur.  After inputting all of the information, each of us was able to determine how much of a budget we were required to maintain for the vacation.  Google Docs actually calculated the information into a pie chart breaking down the total budget into percentage of each expense.  Check it out.....

 
With Zoho, the same spreadsheet was created.  However, the ease of the creation was not as great as Google Docs.  In Zoho, I attempted to find a similar tool.  My first quest was to search the product links.  In the product links I searched planner templates without success.  There was nothing in the templates that compared to the document provided by Google docs.  After searching and searching through the various templates and Zoho apps, I decided to create a spreadsheet similar to the one provided by Goole Docs.  The spreadsheet created in Zoho wasn't extremely difficult. I think that can be attributed to the foundation being provided by Google Docs.  While I had the most difficulty inputting a pie chart, the remaining info input was similar to that of Google Docs.  Below is the screenshot of the chart:

The link below is to the HTML view of the chart.  I am at my wits end trying to copy it to make it visible on the blog.

https://sheet.zoho.com/public/stephanie.wms107/2012-summer-getaway-with-zoho-2?mode=html

I think the usage of both applications will be great in a classroom as it affords the teacher to share grades, assignments, projects, and my favorite PLANNING!!