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> #1 This is 2020 and everybody's collaborating on a single doc with comments. But how do you point someone to a comment with a link? In Office 365, you can't.
by maxsilver 6y ago
> #1 This is 2020 and everybody's collaborating on a single doc with comments. But how do you point someone to a comment with a link? In Office 365, you can't.
Counterpoint: This is not a bug, it's the best feature of Office 365.
This is a bit of a rant, but the worst thing about Google Docs is how it encourages this terrible working pattern, where everyone wants to edit the same exact document at the same time like some kind of cursed nightmare Etherpad, without any way to reasonably handle merge conflicts, and with comments on comments on markup for lines. And every keystroke you press is logged indefinitely so you can't type anything out without everyone watching over your shoulder.
Just a personal opinion, but as a paying Office 365 subscriber, Office 365 is at it's best when it fundamentally rejects Google's workflows and offers it's own. Besides, if what you really want is Google Doc stuff, you can already buy that from Google today anyway.
- ljm 6y agoThe UI of it is what bugs me, as the comment boxes slide up and down the page while people are typing, so you have this annoying widget flying around and when you do want to reply to it, you've got to scroll around to try and find the thing again. A comment/request suggestion feature sounds like a good one, but I think the way Google did it is far from ideal.
- lewisjoe 6y agoThis is the reason why in Zoho Writer [1] we've put them in a neat pane on the side to show all your comments as a list. It's intuitive to jump from one comment to another, filter them and do bulk comment operations like delete-all/resolve-all. [1] https://writer.zoho.com https://writer.zoho.com