• John Richard@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      That is fine to have that opinion but it is irrelevant to the discussion since no where did I praise Google Docs. I’m just explaining the difference between this & and editor that does descent typesetting.

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        23 hours ago

        And an editor that does a decent job is not google docs.

        It is embarassing that MS has dominated this for more than 30 years and Google, despite its infinite wealth, hasn’t made a decent office app.

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          21 hours ago

          I wholeheartedly agree with this opinion. Google Docs has done very little to innovate. The fact that you’re still limited to like 6 built-in styles & lack of integrated syntax highlighting is ridiculous.

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            18 hours ago

            Google Docs has done very little to innovate.

            The place where I see Google Docs being far superior to any other product I’ve run into is collaborative work. Having multiple people writing in the same doc at the simultaneously is a train wreck in most products Office365 included. In other products there’s a good chance you’ll have a version conflict and someone’s changes will be lost. Google docs handles that with ease.

            • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world
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              14 hours ago

              I have been using collaboration with Microsoft products for decades with little issue. I first started in college in 2006 with Onenote and it worked well even then. googol is garbage.

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                8 hours ago

                I have been using collaboration with Microsoft products for decades with little issue.

                You’ve had 60+ people all in a single Excel spreadsheet on Sharepoint all making changes at the exact same moment and never once had a issue of a document lock or file corruption? Its okay to have a preference for one product over the other, but when you’re blinded by brand loyalty where you can see no wrong with your preferred product, it makes you lose credibility.

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                  1 hour ago

                  Just chipping in here but I gather 60 concurrent editors is pushing what most people have experienced - so thanks for your perspective!

                  Most I’ve dealt with is about 5 (in Excell) - and the actual changes were not really being made frequently or by all parties. The worst part was the project manager altering the view and fucking up everyone else’s perspective (even though each had their own?!) - Classic PM stuff.

                  Does Sheets and the rest of the Google suite handle this well?

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                    56 minutes ago

                    Does Sheets and the rest of the Google suite handle this well?

                    It does.

                    I’ll also be the first to say that many of these use cases should not be using a spreadsheet for the kind of work that is occurring and a database is much more appropriate, but we know “should” rarely is present in modern companies or enterprises.