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I wrote a paper recently with some colleagues who use MS Word (common in some fields), mailing around .docx files in the usual manner, and it seemed to work ok.
by _delirium 12y ago
I wrote a paper recently with some colleagues who use MS Word (common in some fields), mailing around .docx files in the usual manner, and it seemed to work ok. Obviously not a detailed test, but we exercised a reasonable number of features without breakage: a two-column document with stylesheet, a number of figures, several equations, and a reference section with auto-updated numerical references.
- taeric 12y agoMore pertinently, it does work better than using google docs. Assuming, of course, you can't get folks to agree to lose features and just move completely to google docs.
- _delirium 12y agoYeah, in my experience Google Docs is mainly useful if you treat it as an editor for lightly formatted (RTF-style) documents, not as a Word-compatible editor. If I really needed Word-on-the-cloud I'd probably use Microsoft's "Word Online", which is a lot more compatible than Google Docs (and also free).