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It is just me? I cannot find any reason, or arguments stated in this article. Just an opinion. My opinion is, Google Docs rocks because 1) extremely portable,
by vinhboy 17y ago
It is just me? I cannot find any reason, or arguments stated in this article. Just an opinion.
My opinion is, Google Docs rocks because 1) extremely portable, a keyboard and a chair is all you need 2) sharing of documents make it very useful 3) can convert many different formats and export to PDF.
I have yet to find any reason to use anything else.
- neilc 17y agoI have yet to find any reason to use anything else. For lightweight text editing and easy document sharing, GDocs is perfectly adequate. For more serious document preparation (i.e. when you care what the output looks like), it still has a long way to go. The recent improvements are great, but I'm a little surprised Google haven't devoted more resources to it.
- gte910h 17y agoI'd really really like to see an export API which exposes the document features and allows people to export differently/to different things.
- storm 17y agoGoogle Docs is great for some purposes. If you just want to get information down in a basic structured manner for sharing and collaborating on, it's perfectly adequate. I use it frequently for internal material. But when you care about presentation - about making documents which can be printed or rendered to PDF and look good, Google Docs plainly sucks. It's just the wrong tool for the job when presentation counts for something. Even just considered as a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Docs is primitive compared to some js components out there. Working with tables is a joke in Docs, and this is just one glaring deficiency of many.
- regularfry 17y agoif the competition is between Google Docs and MS Word, I don't think you can really appeal to the appearance of the final document as a deciding factor. They both suck.
- storm 17y agoSurely you jest. Word can be coerced into making great print documents. Not as good as applications focused on print, sure, but orders of magnitude better than gdocs.
- regularfry 17y agoIf you're used to latex, there's no comparison :-)