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Google docs gets you 99% of the way there so long as you are doing a simple task, like a simple data table or a simple letter. For simple tasks it’s very user f
by zarzavat 5y ago
Google docs gets you 99% of the way there so long as you are doing a simple task, like a simple data table or a simple letter. For simple tasks it’s very user friendly and efficient. But it lacks features to do anything more complicated than that.
- gpt5 5y agoLike what? (Honest question)
- batiudrami 5y agoAside from being a native app which is faster and more reliable, and works without an internet connection, and you can be confident that Office will always open a document you've been sent as intended with all features. Aide from that, the main missing features are in excel. Sheets is missing hundreds of functions and lots of customisation/features in its charts, pivot tables, and data analysis functionality. It also can't handle large data sets (30k+ rows) which you'll run into regularly with any kind of data logging. It is possible you will never use these functions, but the entire professional world runs on excel sheets and registers (even though there is probably a tool somewhere that would work better for individual use cases). The universal compatibility is very valuable and the cost is negligible for businesses.
- unsignednoop 5y agoIt’s funny you should say that because I was joking with someone the other day about google workspaces “the only thing google docs needs is a decent editor (vim),” but in seriousness, if you are referring to vbscript or macros then you are missing the market that google is aiming at.
- dudus 5y agoI'll take a project to develop some automation in Google Apps Script any day before I take a VB scripting job.