Zoho’s Office Plugin not working; trying desktop plugin instead

I was having a great time using the Zoho office plugin so I could open Zoho Writer and Sheet files in Word or Excel, work on them in Office, then save them to the Zoho server. The Zoho server can be slow, and Office apps run much faster on my computer. Plus, Excel has that auto-finish feature that makes it complete what you’re typing if it seems to match something you’ve typed before.

Then it stopped working in Excel. Just plain stopped. When I tried to reinstall it, I couldn’t uninstall the plugin because it has some sort of problem changing the register DLL files. I’ve searched online and found no solutions. Other people have the same problem, and even reinstalling Excel didn’t help. I think the register files need editing, only I don’t know how.

So now I’m using the Zoho Desktop Widget, which puts their version of Writer and Sheet on your desktop. Sign in, and you can grab your stuff from the Zoho server. It also saves to the Zoho server, and it does run a bit faster than Notebook runs in Firefox for me.