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Wait, are you saying you moved from Office to Google Docs and nobody could find a thing there missed? So nobody ever used table of contents, styles, paragraph f
by roel_v 11y ago
Wait, are you saying you moved from Office to Google Docs and nobody could find a thing there missed? So nobody ever used table of contents, styles, paragraph formatting, a document that has mixed landscape/portrait pages, cross-references or templates? How is that possible? What kind of profile are those users, I mean, what sort of work do they do in Word? (I'm assuming we're only talking about Word here and not Excel, because then it'd be even harder to believe)
- baldfat 11y ago100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents. We didn't go with Docs but it would have worked fine. I would say our company of 400 people have very little need for Word and they don't know how to use Excel besides making budgets with no real complected formulas.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago> "100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents." Did you explore using Mail Merge?
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoOr Notepad?
- ZenoArrow 11y agoWhy would Notepad be any better than Google Docs in this instance?
- baldfat 11y agoWhy would people need mail merge when making written reports? Heck I bet you the money in my wallet that less than 1% of current users even know how to do a mail merge let alone have a use for it. Sure in the 1980s and 90s doing mail merges for people's Christmas letters felt like a killer app at the time doesn't really get used much these days in Office.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago> "Why would people need mail merge when making written reports?" Depends on whether you want the data to be easily reusable or not. Is there no need for any summarisation of the data on these reports? Is the layout of these reports standardised in any way? Mail merge isn't exactly an advanced feature, all you need is a basic Excel spreadsheet containing the data you want to insert. Takes 10 minutes or less to teach someone how to use it.
- baldfat 11y agoYou do know you can do mail merge in Google Docs? I am certainly not trying to say mail merge is an advance feature. I am just saying MOST people can not do a mail merge, THE VAST majority.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoCannot because they can understand it or cannot because they haven't been shown it?
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoNow that we're putting our thinking caps on - do you really want your business to depend on freebies from Google? Does anyone really want to become dependent on a web app, where you have no control over whether you move to the next version or not? I can ask all sorts of questions to make people move away from Google Docs. Just because you manipulated some people into making a bad decision doesn't mean you're right.