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Google docs doesn’t work?
by nitrogen99 1y ago
Google docs doesn’t work?
- pcurve 1y agoIt works fine for most use cases, but Google Docs and Sheets features pale in comparison full desktop base apps.
- chii 1y agogoogle docs and sheets have 99% of the features that an average home user would want to use for a word processor and a spreadsheet. The things that docs don't have are things like templated designs, and other typesetting features that a professional document creator would want to use. It also isn't completely compatible with office document formats (some formatting and alignments are wrong). I would imagine similar with spreadsheets.
- _carbyau_ 1y agoUntil you get to multiplayer document editing. Having multiple people working literally at the same time is an interesting way to work, though not something I want to repeat/rely on often.
- imtringued 1y agoUhm. You probably haven't seen the crazy Google sheets that exist out there. They are really stretching what you should be doing with a spreadsheet and they are fully collaborative/multi-user. At some point it got really old to wait fifteen minutes for the sheets to recalculate.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoNot if you don't have internet access.
- s1artibartfast 1y agoIt has the worst commenting and track history I've seen. My company went to Google docs about 5 years ago and I have steadily walked the work product of engineers go downhill because of it.
- thebytefairy 1y agoFor what reasons? I've used both and never seen such a thing. In fact I'd argue the simplicity and collaboration features of Google Docs gives it an edge.
- s1artibartfast 1y agoOne issue is information density of the UI, the other is that text edits are embedded as comments. I think it is great for planning a birthday party. Less so for critical engineering documentation when lives are on the line. My experience is that sloppy imprecise tools lead to sloppy imprecise work.
- robertlagrant 1y agoIt's far better than Office 365's though in my experience.