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What kind of document did you open? A PDF??? It's working fine for me, .doc/.docx extensions open in QuickWord as expected.

by ZoF 13y ago

wslh 13y ago
A Google Drive document.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Anything else is outside its domain. Its not a replacement for Google Docs for working with Google Docs native formats.
  - wslh 13y ago
    Beyond the downvote to my comment, I think the same complain will be amplified by a lot of people beyond if it's in the app description or not. Currently, with hundreds of applications installed on the PC and mobile devices nobody reads every app description, they just assume certain features. You can't RTFM for every application installed.
    - dragonwriter 13y ago
      > You can't RTFM for every application installed. Reading the basic description of what an app is is not equivalent to reading a manual.
      - wslh 13y ago
        Please, give me a break. I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description.
        dragonwriter 13y ago
        > I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description. QuickOffice was always a MSOffice formats editing tool for mobile devices. Its never been a generic document reader. You assumed, for no discernable reason, that it was. Maybe you should re-evaluate your assumptions about the need to read descriptions of apps before you install and run them.
        wslh 13y ago
        You make me laugh, seems like you follow first order logic in a human discussion. Let me speculate what would happen if Google applied your thinking: - You could not integrate Google Adwords with Google Analytics because there were part of different companies. - Android could not integrate with Google Search Engine because it was only part of a mobile innitiative. You can play yourself combining the acquisitions listed on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
    - ZoF 13y ago
      It's quick_Office_.
  - SEMW 13y ago
    > If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice. "No no no, if it's a Word file you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green circle to edit it, if it's a native google document you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green hexagon to edit it." "You don't know what type of document it is? No problem, you can tell by... Open it up in one of the two apps and tell me what the file extension is. The file extension. The three of four letters at the end. Wait a sec, forget that, native google docs documents don't have file extensions." ["Well, does the icon look like--no, never mind, the icon is the same for both, four white lines in a blue square." - I was wrong about this, word files do have a different icon] "Umm, well, open it in one of them, and if you can't edit it, open it in the other one." "Hold on, I'll drive over..."
    - dragonwriter 13y ago
      > Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice. "If you need to edit things in Drive, use the Drive app." There are some use cases where the QO app makes sense, but its solving a fairly narrow problem that doesn't apply to most users. > Well, does the icon look like--no, never mind, the icon is the same for both, four white lines in a blue square What are you talking about? The icon for Word files in both the QO UI and the Drive app UI is a big blue W on a white square, and is nothing like the 3-long-1-short white lines on a blue square icon for Google Documents. > Umm, well, open it in one of them, and if you can't edit it, open it in the other one. The Drive edits Doc/Docx files; if for some reason you don't like using the Drive App to do that, you can switch to QO from the document opened in Drive by using the "Open in..." menu from Drive to open a document in QO.
      - SEMW 13y ago
        > The Drive edits Doc/Docx files I've just tried it, and no, it can't. On the webapp, editing is done by converting to google docs format; that option doesn't seem to be available on mobile. It can't even view them natively, if QO isn't installed it appears to show them in a web viewer. Only quickoffice can edit .doc/.docx's. But you're right you can open a .doc in QO from drive (assuming it's installed, it'll register an intent), which does alleviate the problem. But it's still silly, and confusing for non-technical users, to have two similarly-designed office apps, published by the same company, which can each edit a mutually-exclusive set of document formats. And that using intents to edit works one way but not the other. I'll be surprised if they're not merged at some point. On the other hand you're right about the icon. My mistake, I'll correct my post.

What kind of document did you open? A PDF??? It's working fine for me, .doc/.docx extensions open in QuickWord as expected.

by ZoF 13y ago

What kind of document did you open? A PDF??? It's working fine for me, .doc/.docx extensions open in QuickWord as expected.

wslh 13y ago

A Google Drive document.

dragonwriter 13y ago
If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Anything else is outside its domain. Its not a replacement for Google Docs for working with Google Docs native formats.
- wslh 13y ago
  Beyond the downvote to my comment, I think the same complain will be amplified by a lot of people beyond if it's in the app description or not. Currently, with hundreds of applications installed on the PC and mobile devices nobody reads every app description, they just assume certain features. You can't RTFM for every application installed.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > You can't RTFM for every application installed. Reading the basic description of what an app is is not equivalent to reading a manual.
    - wslh 13y ago
      Please, give me a break. I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description.
      - dragonwriter 13y ago
        > I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description. QuickOffice was always a MSOffice formats editing tool for mobile devices. Its never been a generic document reader. You assumed, for no discernable reason, that it was. Maybe you should re-evaluate your assumptions about the need to read descriptions of apps before you install and run them.
        wslh 13y ago
        You make me laugh, seems like you follow first order logic in a human discussion. Let me speculate what would happen if Google applied your thinking: - You could not integrate Google Adwords with Google Analytics because there were part of different companies. - Android could not integrate with Google Search Engine because it was only part of a mobile innitiative. You can play yourself combining the acquisitions listed on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
  - ZoF 13y ago
    It's quick_Office_.
- SEMW 13y ago
  > If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice. "No no no, if it's a Word file you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green circle to edit it, if it's a native google document you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green hexagon to edit it." "You don't know what type of document it is? No problem, you can tell by... Open it up in one of the two apps and tell me what the file extension is. The file extension. The three of four letters at the end. Wait a sec, forget that, native google docs documents don't have file extensions." ["Well, does the icon look like--no, never mind, the icon is the same for both, four white lines in a blue square." - I was wrong about this, word files do have a different icon] "Umm, well, open it in one of them, and if you can't edit it, open it in the other one." "Hold on, I'll drive over..."
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice. "If you need to edit things in Drive, use the Drive app." There are some use cases where the QO app makes sense, but its solving a fairly narrow problem that doesn't apply to most users. > Well, does the icon look like--no, never mind, the icon is the same for both, four white lines in a blue square What are you talking about? The icon for Word files in both the QO UI and the Drive app UI is a big blue W on a white square, and is nothing like the 3-long-1-short white lines on a blue square icon for Google Documents. > Umm, well, open it in one of them, and if you can't edit it, open it in the other one. The Drive edits Doc/Docx files; if for some reason you don't like using the Drive App to do that, you can switch to QO from the document opened in Drive by using the "Open in..." menu from Drive to open a document in QO.
    - SEMW 13y ago
      > The Drive edits Doc/Docx files I've just tried it, and no, it can't. On the webapp, editing is done by converting to google docs format; that option doesn't seem to be available on mobile. It can't even view them natively, if QO isn't installed it appears to show them in a web viewer. Only quickoffice can edit .doc/.docx's. But you're right you can open a .doc in QO from drive (assuming it's installed, it'll register an intent), which does alleviate the problem. But it's still silly, and confusing for non-technical users, to have two similarly-designed office apps, published by the same company, which can each edit a mutually-exclusive set of document formats. And that using intents to edit works one way but not the other. I'll be surprised if they're not merged at some point. On the other hand you're right about the icon. My mistake, I'll correct my post.