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Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: Which works better for business?:
Have you been thinking of reassessing which word processor your business should standardize on? The obvious choices are the two best known: Microsoft Word and Google Docs. But which is better?
Several years ago, the answer to that would have been easy: Microsoft Word for its better editing, formatting and markup tools; Google Docs for its better collaboration. But both applications have been radically updated since then. Word now has live collaboration tools, and Google has added more sophisticated formatting, editing and markup features to Docs.
TFA requires free registration, but the question is an interesting one: Have Google Docs arrived at parity with, or surpassed, Microsoft Word for business needs? How much work is required to transition existing documents, macros, and workflows?
(Score: 5, Informative) by coolgopher on Tuesday June 02 2020, @04:23AM (1 child)
A colleague of mine just learned the hard way that you cannot (successfully) export Google Docs containing mathematical formulas to Word format (.docx).
OpenOffice apparently can manage it in a way which preserves the way the formula looks, but not the actual formula. The example given was that "a + b-subscript-i" structurally ends up being "(a + b)subscript i".
Moral of the story: just stick to LaTeX for serious documents.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 02 2020, @11:54AM
I'll second that. I use LyX myself and have always been happy with the results.
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