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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, Interesting) by richtopia on Tuesday June 02 2020, @04:44AM (1 child)
I've had customers who use both products. They are all bad. Microsoft products used to be the industry standard and more feature complete than Google, but Office 365 keeps providing headaches.
I personally write as much as possible in MarkDown, but that is my personal stuff; I suspect a real business would need something more.
(Score: 2) by julian on Tuesday June 02 2020, @05:50AM
My personal needs are well served by Notepad++ [notepad-plus-plus.org] (Windows), Kate [kate-editor.org] (Linux, KDE), and LibreOffice (available everywhere).
My office needs a lot of collaboration with documents so we do use Google Docs and it's a really great product for what it does. I don't have any technical complaints. I dislike Google as a company and don't use any of their products or services personally (other than watching YouTube with an adblocker). When the Internet goes down, we can't do much anyway, so it doesn't matter that our document collaboration system is temporarily unavailable too. And there are ways to make it work offline, with limited functionality.
We have a few MS Office 365 licenses because occasionally we need to interact with other offices who can't handle open formats, but it's used for little else.