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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-I-convert-my-existing-files? dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @03:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @03:57PM (#1002199)

    > If you opened the file from LibreOffice, the checkboxes were completely misaligned. Instant vendor and version lock-in!

    No this was all solved by having 2 different formats both called docx. One of them is compliant with standards and one isn't. It's not their fault that everyone didn't change the default noncompliant docx to the complaitn docx. The market has decided I guess?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @12:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @12:44AM (#1002518)

    It is actually 9 different formats. If you smooth over the various BC/FC issues and don't need certain features, you can get that down to 4. Whee. Are we having fun yet?