How to Change Settings and Preferences in Zoho Writer

How to Change Editor Settings and Preferences in Zoho Writer

Overview

Zoho Writer provides two levels of customization to give you control over both your personal editing environment and the formatting of individual documents. Editor Preferences define how the editor behaves for you across all documents. These are personal settings stored in your account and follow you regardless of which document you open.

Key Options Include:
  1. UI Preferences – Change the interface language.
  2. Show Smart Toolbar on Selection
  3. Chat Preferences – Control notifications and sounds.
  4. Visual Cues – Turn on/off hints, insert markers, and Zia suggestions.
  5. Dark Mode / Night Mode in Editor

Steps

  1. Click the Settings icon in the top-right corner of your screen. A drop-down menu will appear.
  2. Click More Settings to bring up the Settings Dialog

Set Default paste format

In the Preferences tab, select the paste format you want under Paste. Click Save. If you select and set a default paste format, you need not go and change it every time a piece of content is pasted.




Show/Hide chat bar

You can enable or disable the chat bar in Zoho Writer by clicking on the Show/Hide Chat in the bottom left of the screen as shown below.


Enable/disable chat sounds

You can select from a list of chat sounds and change it any time you want. You can also disable it if you find it distracting. To enable/disable chat sound,
  1. Open the Sound Alert tab.
  2. Make your selection and click Save.

Turn off Visual Cues

You can turn-off the Visual Cues if you think they distract your writing process.
Under UI Preferences, uncheck Show Insert & Paragraph Visual Cues or Show AskZia & Comment Visual Cues then click Save to remove Visual Cues.

Change Display Language

If you want to change the language of Writer to something other than what you are already using, you can do so by going through the following steps.To change the Display Language

  1. Go to UI Preferences. Scroll down to Display Language and click Change. Pick the language you desire and click Save.


Switch to Dark Mode 

Click on the moon shaped icon on the right corner of the bottom panel as shown below. 





Enable or Disable the Toolbar / Smart Toolbar

In Settings Dialog , Go to UI Preferences.

Under Toolbar Options, you can:
  1. Show Smart Toolbar — Allow the floating, context-sensitive toolbar to appear when selecting text or objects.
  2. Show or Hide Classic Toolbar :  Top Toolbar is the horizontal bar at the top of the document editor that provides quick access to the most commonly used tools and commands


Under User Interface, you can:
  1. Show / Hide Visual Cues near current line :  Turn on/off hints, insert markers, and Zia suggestions. Click Save to apply changes.


Troubleshooting

Problem : 1

Description : When editing a document in Dark Mode, font colors don't show up on screen.  Viewing/editing the same document in Light Mode shows them just fine.
Solution :
Option 1 : 



Option 2: Exclude Document Area from Night Mode from Settings

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