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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: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 02 2020, @09:19AM
Huh? Microsoft Office comes in two flavours: pay a one-off price for a single version of the office suite or pay a subscription for Office 365. In both versions, you get desktop apps. Office 365 gives you Windows, macOS, Android and iOS versions of the core apps (a few, such as Access, are available on fewer platforms).
Office encourages you to store documents in OneDrive / OneDrive for Business, but these sync locally. When you edit a document offline, it works. When you reconnect, if two people have edited it then it will report a conflict and open Word or whatever to merge the changes.
You can also use the versions in the web browser.
I've not used Google Docs for ages, but I think they have a similar offline mode.
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