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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @01:01PM
I realize the article was about Word vs Google Docs and not office suites, but in practice businesses standardize on office suites. I don't know anyone that works at a business that uses a word processor from one company and spreadsheet software from another.
I don't use that many advanced spreadsheet features either. As I wrote, for personal spreadsheets I use EtherCalc (an open source equivalent to Google Sheets, though with far fewer features).