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Word is tons more powerful than Google Docs, has add-ins, way more formatting and styling. In my mind, Google Doc is not a direct competitor to Word when it com
by Khao 9y ago
Word is tons more powerful than Google Docs, has add-ins, way more formatting and styling. In my mind, Google Doc is not a direct competitor to Word when it comes to professional editing and writing.
- nihonde 9y agoIdeally, styling should have nothing to do with editing or writing. You're talking about print (or PDF/static image) publishing, I guess?
- Khao 9y agoIdeally, yes. But so many people only know of Word, or have been writing using Word for so long that they won't change their workflow and they simply do what works for them.
- TickleSteve 9y ago...in the real world, they're one and the same.
- scblock 9y agoProfessional firms that produce contracts and reports generally have document format guidelines and standard templates. They may also have approved typefaces, up to and including brand-custom typefaces. And while these things could be applied by document editors or tools later based on a simple set of text documents (I'd be in favor of that), in reality everyone works in Word, and the working Word documents are what will eventually become signed legal documents or stamped and sealed engineering studies, or similar. Styling does matter.