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office 365 is far inferior to google docs for online collaborative document editing. You can lock the doc in office, you get into situations where it's very har

office 365 is far inferior to google docs for online collaborative document editing. You can lock the doc in office, you get into situations where it's very hard to safely have people collaborate on docs.

DamnYuppie 9y ago
I don't find this to be true. For the last 2 years I have been using G-Suite and recently went back to O365. I find the collaboration features in the new version to be on par with googles. Also the UI is better, the online feature set is better, especially for PowerPoint and Word. As for Excel the desktop version is still the undisputed champion but it syncs up very quickly with others who are editing the same document on their desktop with excel.
- Jesus_Jones 9y ago
  6 months ago at my last company they used office and we used office 365 to collaboratively edit some word docs and we had a problem where the docs kept getting locked and others couldn't edit them. this doesn't happen with google docs. if you have a big collaborative doc its a problem, or was 6 months ago. Did it get fixed?
  - prteja11 9y ago
    I have used O365 to collaborate on a spreadsheet and the experience was horrible. We had about 500 rows and 8 columns and it would lock up or just crash on us. We were not even collaborating. We just shared the file with 8 people and were trying to copy data from one tab to other (within the sheet). Google Sheets was a much better experience for collaboration.
- rahimnathwani 9y ago
  My experience has differed from yours. I've recently started using O365 for some client work. I'm really missing a few features from GSuite, that are important for collaboration: 1. Ability to reference a specific person in a comment (e.g. +DamnYuppie please add your thing here). 2. Ability to add/update TOC for a document 3. Comments being owned by whoever wrote them, so others cannot accidentally edit the text of the comment. 4. Ability to notified of and reply to comments by email. 5. Ability to organise documents within my own folder, without creating second copies. (In GSuite, a document is a single thing, even if different people want to organise their own folders differently.) I also find the UI is hard to get used to. It's different from GSuite, which is to be expected, but it's also different from the desktop version of Word. Of course I went through a phase of finding that GSuite lacked features that I liked in Excel, but the ease with which you can use Google Docs/Sheets/Slides across devices, and the super-slick display and interaction of the commenting and suggesting features, more than make up for those.

DamnYuppie 9y ago

I don't find this to be true. For the last 2 years I have been using G-Suite and recently went back to O365. I find the collaboration features in the new version to be on par with googles. Also the UI is better, the online feature set is better, especially for PowerPoint and Word. As for Excel the desktop version is still the undisputed champion but it syncs up very quickly with others who are editing the same document on their desktop with excel.

Jesus_Jones 9y ago
6 months ago at my last company they used office and we used office 365 to collaboratively edit some word docs and we had a problem where the docs kept getting locked and others couldn't edit them. this doesn't happen with google docs. if you have a big collaborative doc its a problem, or was 6 months ago. Did it get fixed?
- prteja11 9y ago
  I have used O365 to collaborate on a spreadsheet and the experience was horrible. We had about 500 rows and 8 columns and it would lock up or just crash on us. We were not even collaborating. We just shared the file with 8 people and were trying to copy data from one tab to other (within the sheet). Google Sheets was a much better experience for collaboration.
rahimnathwani 9y ago
My experience has differed from yours. I've recently started using O365 for some client work. I'm really missing a few features from GSuite, that are important for collaboration: 1. Ability to reference a specific person in a comment (e.g. +DamnYuppie please add your thing here). 2. Ability to add/update TOC for a document 3. Comments being owned by whoever wrote them, so others cannot accidentally edit the text of the comment. 4. Ability to notified of and reply to comments by email. 5. Ability to organise documents within my own folder, without creating second copies. (In GSuite, a document is a single thing, even if different people want to organise their own folders differently.) I also find the UI is hard to get used to. It's different from GSuite, which is to be expected, but it's also different from the desktop version of Word. Of course I went through a phase of finding that GSuite lacked features that I liked in Excel, but the ease with which you can use Google Docs/Sheets/Slides across devices, and the super-slick display and interaction of the commenting and suggesting features, more than make up for those.