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It's the sharing. In distributed teams that one feature makes up for a multitude of sins.
by hodgesrm 5y ago
It's the sharing. In distributed teams that one feature makes up for a multitude of sins.
- LightG 5y agoMaybe for replacing Word, not Excel. Google Sheets is handy for basic tasks among small/large groups. Get even a tiny bit "sophisticated" and it's all over.
- DarkmSparks 5y agoI mostly replaced excel with libreoffice sheets where possible. I actually prefer writer in all circumstances. For everything else similar (e.g. shared complex excel docs with tons of VB) I use MS office on a mac mini and my main desktop is a fc33 build with an RTX3070 and AMD5900X
- LightG 5y agoThanks, good to see some options I can dabble with.
- hodgesrm 5y agoWe have a 100% remote company. We run our business on Google Sheets. It's entirely sufficient for our purposes which include cloud cost modeling (we do a lot of that) as well as cash flow management and financial projections. I'm an Excel fan as well but in our case it simply would not work due to the fact the team is spread across so many locations.
- LightG 5y agoI will give Sheets another go soon to see how it's progressed but I've always run up against a deal breaker before. And I say "soon" because I thought I'd have a Sunday-morning nosey around right now after reading your comment (I was inspired) ... and ... : ** Google Docs encountered an error. Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes. To learn more about the Google Docs editors, please visit our help centre. We're sorry for the inconvenience. - The Google Docs Team ** ... It went away 10 minutes later, but I can't have that in the middle of a working day.
- LightG 5y agoAnd then ... : Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist. Make sure that you have the correct URL and that the file exists. Get stuff done with Google Drive Apps in Google Drive make it easy to create, store and share online documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. Learn more at drive.google.com/start/apps. .... The above is actually an error produced by me just trying to create a new blank page. Sorry, I won't be going near Sheets for anything I care about. I'll try again in a year. The above annoyed the hell out of me.
- hodgesrm 5y agoI've never seen this bug, but it would definitely alter my opinion as well. :/
- haswell 5y agoMicrosoft has invested heavily in realtime collaboration, and while I think Google still has the edge there, O365's collaboration features are reasonably good in 2021. I realize the parent question was more focused on how people find success with Google Docs, but if that success is primarily due to collaboration, and collaboration in O365 is now decent, I wonder if some of the justifications for using Google Docs still hold up.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoI've had some pretty terrible experiences trying to to collaboratively edit word documents in Office 365. You get all sorts of corruption with people bumping into one another. Big groups, small groups, it doesn't matter, at some point you'll see some malarkey.
- haswell 5y agoI’m with you. I’ve had some pretty terrible experiences with this in the past as well. I haven’t had many issues over the last 6-12 months, though, and as far as I can tell, they continue to improve. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not a fan of MS products and as I said, I think Google still has the edge in collaboration. But they’ve come far, and it wasn’t that long ago that those collaboration features were unusable or non-existent.
- hodgesrm 5y agoSame here. Office 365 collaboration is cumbersome and awful. (YMMV, this is my experience.)