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I only rarely encounter people who use Google Docs, but when I do it’s a huge pain if you care about preserving the formatting at all.
by D13Fd 2y ago
I only rarely encounter people who use Google Docs, but when I do it’s a huge pain if you care about preserving the formatting at all.
- ryukoposting 2y agoBoth startups I've worked for used it exclusively - one of them being a med-tech with a boatload of documentation needs. A lot of schools have dropped MS Office as they've switched to Chromebooks. None of this is to say GDocs isn't a miserable turd of a program. I'm convinced word processors have actually regressed in quality since the mid-2000s. GDocs somehow manages to be less featureful, slower, buggier, less user-friendly, and less compatible than Word XP. There isn't a single thing GDocs does better than an office suite that's pushing 25 years old, save for real-time collaborative editing which is hardly worth all the other compromises. This sounds silly, but I encourage you to dredge up an old Windows XP system and a copy of Office XP. I was shocked to see how far we've strayed from the light.