tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post8145905767826034230..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Google Docs & Spreadsheets vs Microsoft OfficeAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-13143455617842255252015-11-01T20:01:42.437-08:002015-11-01T20:01:42.437-08:00Docs and Office are different. Docs is good for cr...Docs and Office are different. Docs is good for creating quick short non-proffessional documents or editing with friends. Docs doesn't include many useful features that are in word like columns, highlighting, headers and footers, etc. Docs also saves documents online so we cann't be sure of what google does with are info. Word saves everything to your computer and can also save in more formats that are compatible. Although google claim to be compatible with word, it isn't fully. Word has more options and compatibility, it's worth the money. With the new Office Online, both Docs and office are online and offline though one docs, you have to alliw offline access in order to see it online. On Office Online you have to download the file to a desktop version of office so you still have to pay to use it offline. Another good app for word processing, spreadsheets and slides are pages, numbers and keynote by apple. They are all easy to use and free with lots of options. Keynote is the only app that kind of reaches powerpoint's level but not fully because of one thing. The compatibility issue. Apple pages, keynote and numbers are only available on apple products and although they claim to be compatible with office, there are always minor issues that occur.<br />I hope this helped and choose between these depending on what you will use it for as they are all for different purposesThat one guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00094495747154944327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-67683870671231281592011-02-04T08:21:22.680-08:002011-02-04T08:21:22.680-08:00People "like to compare them" because Do...People "like to compare them" because Docs is apparently an attempt to emulate MS Office.<br /><br />IMHO <a href="http://bit.ly/fpR6dh" rel="nofollow">Docs is evil as are many examples of attempts to imitate popular tech products.</a>Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912683048610862404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-58932200494717623292010-09-22T18:35:24.994-07:002010-09-22T18:35:24.994-07:00I too have been finding myself using Google docs m...I too have been finding myself using Google docs more and more- I can access it from any computer and it saves space on my laptop.Caroleehttp://www.workingathomeadvice.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-60084249165502260172010-05-20T06:32:59.506-07:002010-05-20T06:32:59.506-07:00I'm writing a paer on economics that needs to ...I'm writing a paer on economics that needs to import papers written in 3rd part applictions and I need to do the reverse to. Notepad is no good: page presentation for academics is very important but ppt is unacceptable:only excel will do.<br />I've had a lot of mixups, pages getting confused from on import to another etc and hours of backtracking. I'm lucky because I've created an acceptable reference index. Does google have the flexibility to help me now that I'm in my final drft?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-86222712371778469792009-10-01T11:43:19.505-07:002009-10-01T11:43:19.505-07:00I find Docs good enough for most basic text editin...I find Docs good enough for most basic text editing, and for more advanced documents, I find Word and absolute dread to use anyway, and prefer the full control that InDesign offers.<br /><br />I know this is not the solution for everyone, but for me, the combination works splendidly.<br /><br />As for Excel though, I still have never met any real competition to this. I am an advanced Excel user, and Spreadsheets is lightyears behind. OpenOffice still can't beat Excel, but both of them are certainly moving forward all the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-38998957712533915232009-08-24T23:11:05.881-07:002009-08-24T23:11:05.881-07:00Google Docs is constantly improving. What are your...Google Docs is <a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html" rel="nofollow">constantly improving</a>. What are your needs?Alex Chituhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-63061517582689306572009-08-24T22:02:43.629-07:002009-08-24T22:02:43.629-07:00I think Google Docs is not good enough to meet my ...I think Google Docs is not good enough to meet my needs. Are there plans to better it in the future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-10757146998887225902009-06-16T08:32:00.059-07:002009-06-16T08:32:00.059-07:00Until recently, I wasn't aware of a function w...Until recently, I wasn't aware of a function within Revisions that acts as a Track Changes. If you select your document, then go to the dropdown box for "More actions" and then select "Revisions." From there, you can select different revisions and then click on "Compare Checked." When the page loads, it shows everyone's names in the upper right corner with different highlighted colors. As you review the document, you will see the different highlights for the different contributor's edits. Hope that helps!kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-90596633269189048082009-03-12T18:27:00.000-07:002009-03-12T18:27:00.000-07:00Another aspect of Internet Docs and Spreadsheets. ...Another aspect of Internet Docs and Spreadsheets. We don't need to have document concept anymore. All kinds of data can be blended together in form of web CMS protal, where any kind of information can be published, analyzed and shared. We can support any kind of llinks and embeded visualization objects bound to external cloud databases always available on-line. Everything is on-line once and forever. We don't need to think about document as file storage concept anymore.Andrey Eliseevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712812610149388100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-48829261784210540242009-03-12T18:19:00.000-07:002009-03-12T18:19:00.000-07:00Internet Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations don't r...Internet Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations don't rely on local computer processing power. That means internet spreadsheets and presentations can utilize unlimited on-line resources. For example we can create presentation containing all movies stored on you-tube. Or we can create spreadsheet feeding data from Amazon cloud database. If all that staff is smoothly integrated in Google domain it would be another world of data processing. Lets say relatively simple web UI bound to unlimited computing power of cloud database it is perfect blend.<BR/>Who needs to install local version of SQL server, OLAP, data mining and all required infrastructure for data analysis, when business applications actively migrated to cloud space?<BR/><BR/>Data analysis would be performed in the same space where business applications are hosted. And today majority of business applications hosted at third party hosting sites or migrated into Amazon cloud where they utilize advantage of unlimited on-demand resources. So the idea is that all business analysis tools will follow business applications to Amazon cloud or similar space.<BR/>So Google Docs are perfect solution in this situation. MS Office applications would work only for large corporate clients. Who have extra security requirements and have enough resources for infrastructure development and support.<BR/>So I consider that Google docs is future of data analysis.Andrey Eliseevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712812610149388100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-18585749030603251182009-01-28T10:08:00.000-08:002009-01-28T10:08:00.000-08:00Our small business runs on Google Docs. We have re...Our small business runs on Google Docs. We have recently encountered a major problem and I am writing to see if anyone has any solutions to this but also to warn the above posters that use Google Docs and haven't encountered this problem yet. <BR/><BR/>The problem is: We have run out of space. From what I can find, there is a limit to the number of spreadsheets you can have, and we reached it. We bought a lot more space while in our Google Docs account but apparently this extra space is only usable in Picasa & Gmail, but not in Google Docs! Does anyone know how to increase the space on Google Docs? I have not found a way to do this and don't think its possible.<BR/><BR/>We are facing a serious problem here and while Google Docs is great for personal records, it is not a good idea for a small business. We have become dependent on Google Docs for our everyday functioning and now are crippled. I personally have had major issues with our company using Google Docs for as many things as we do, but that is not my area and the people responsible for that area think Google Docs is the best for us as we require a system where everyone can reach the same info & see changes as they occur. We have looked into different shareware and online hosting options but as we are located in Costa Rica we have run into some complications and have not at this point been able to work it out.<BR/><BR/>Anyway please let me know if anyone knows of a way to increase space on Google??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-72895839447278316352009-01-22T15:22:00.000-08:002009-01-22T15:22:00.000-08:00A lot of useful features are missing in Google Doc...A lot of useful features are missing in Google Docs. It collaboration features are useful, but as a word professor is pretty useless. It's bullets and text coloring doesn't work half of the time. Maybe I don't know how to use it properly, but how difficult should those functions be to use? Sure, MS Word is big and has a lot of features that I never use, but at least I know if I need a feature, it's there.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03113658756279692373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-35993112025415798712008-10-07T15:44:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:44:00.000-07:00i use gdocs for essays, but when i need a little m...i use gdocs for essays, but when i need a little more power i use iwork 08 (brochures, presentations etc) but i love not having to email in gdocs and having like 5 differant copies of each documentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-69948015794301027962008-09-29T04:17:00.000-07:002008-09-29T04:17:00.000-07:00Pagination isn't desired "bells and whistles", it'...Pagination isn't desired "bells and whistles", it's an absolute dealbreaker for the majority of the audience they're trying to attract. I'm talking, of course, about students. <BR/><BR/>Students do a lot of basic word processing that doesn't require macros, mail merge, and all the other stuff that Word comes with - we also often have tasks that would greatly benefit from the collaboration features. Group essays and so on would be far, far easier with Google Docs. <BR/><BR/>The problem is that any sort of academic work requires footnotes, and footnotes require pagination. No footnotes == no use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-79598902788961566192008-05-11T09:13:00.000-07:002008-05-11T09:13:00.000-07:00Ionut, Thanks for doing this post, I found it real...Ionut, <BR/>Thanks for doing this post, I found it really helpful.<BR/><BR/>Personally. I use Google Docs more and more, and while I second the other commenters' pleas for Offline Gears implementation and tools like Footnotes, headers and footers (yes I know you can technically do the latter two by tweaking the CSS manually...), overall I find it does the trick.<BR/><BR/>For me, the thing that drove me into the arms of GDocs was Microsoft taking forEVER to update Office for Mac. Word ran so sluggishly under Rosetta that I felt like poking out my eyes every time I needed to use it. Now with Leopard's built in doc support in TextEdit, combined with google Docs, I rarely have a need for Word and I don't think I'll be buying Office 08, now that they've finally released it...<BR/><BR/>By the way, I am a fairly new blogger and I linked to this post in my recent article on the top 5 reasons I left Wordpress.com for Blogger. Rather than just linking to GDocs when I mentioned it, I figured why not link somewhere that explains well WHY my readers would want to use the service. So thanks! The post is <A HREF="http://smithereensblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/top-5-reasons-i-left-wordpress-for.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> if you're curious to see what drove me so batty about Wordpress that I moved my blog to blogspot piece by piece, by hand...<BR/><BR/>CheersDaniel Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08819669958365205046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-65851686064043977342008-04-16T17:59:00.000-07:002008-04-16T17:59:00.000-07:00One major complain about google docs is that I don...One major complain about google docs is that I dont know when the end of page page is and that why I chose office 07 over google docsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-52001868706894495072008-04-11T02:37:00.000-07:002008-04-11T02:37:00.000-07:00Well google will then be owning the entire "web" b...Well google will then be owning the entire "web" both static pages and data. A true monoply, it will be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-17821297673052522022008-04-11T02:11:00.000-07:002008-04-11T02:11:00.000-07:00Why doesnt google offer free web hosting services ...Why doesnt google offer free web hosting services with open source languages such as php or perl and database like mysql. Hell, they can design their own language or database! Give each account a reasonable space (like gmail) and increase it if the website has improving traffic.. everyone likes free stuff. And I am pretty sure Google will gain huge benefits in doing so and it already have the infrastructure, so why dont they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-55444470736105330032008-04-11T01:57:00.000-07:002008-04-11T01:57:00.000-07:00I believe the two will co-exist.Offline, I will us...I believe the two will co-exist.<BR/>Offline, I will use office coz it gives more functionalities. On occations that I dont have microsoft office or I want to share simple documents with others then I will choose GDOc or GSheet.<BR/>We as end users do not need to choose a side but rather use the right tool for the right situation.<BR/>MS office and G Apps are both here to stay. Not one will achieve the dominance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-7802067902024051552008-03-12T01:42:00.000-07:002008-03-12T01:42:00.000-07:00you can find some more useful information here htt...you can find some more useful information here <BR/>http://readerszone.com/2008/03/12/google-docs-vs-microsoft-office/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-30183501864387455562007-10-16T15:03:00.000-07:002007-10-16T15:03:00.000-07:00Thanks for posting article like this. Another ques...Thanks for posting article like this. Another question…<BR/>Does somebody know where I can get source code of "Google Docs"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-75773195697585269532007-09-20T15:18:00.000-07:002007-09-20T15:18:00.000-07:00Microsoft Office ... the best Swiss Army knife you...Microsoft Office ... the best Swiss Army knife you can get. And, like a swiss army knife, it's go so much crap it it, most folks can't figure out how to use it (IE: learning curve puts users off, and, quoting Joel Spolsky's 80/20 rule, 80% of the users only use 20% of the -most basic- functionality...)<BR/><BR/>Sometimes, when you want to cut bread, you just want a knife...not a chainsaw.<BR/><BR/>I think a simpler application like Google Docs / Spreadsheet will find its place in a collaborative, online environment. Folks needing to do more technical things, like legal documents, can still rely on MS Office/Word to track changes and what not.<BR/><BR/>Can't wait for an online version of MS Access...heck, most everything stored online these days is in a database anyways...just make a decent web-front-end that can tap Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc...Google would have a real killer app on their hands.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, Microsoft is trying to encourage (*cough* coerce) folks into going onto a subscription plan with their MS Office, because (they won't admit it) they've run out of ides to improve it, and can't justify charging folks $700 for a new version every few years with is basically just a new paint job, some bug fixes, some optimization, and a few new bells and whistles which are so out there that nobody will use them (except for really specialized situations...to which folks will most likely already be using a much more specialized app for that anyways.) Microsoft knows they've pretty much tapped the reasonable potential of this product, so they're trying to milk it with subscription service now. I personally think that's lazy business, just trying to lock in consumers and milk them for something that probably won't change in the next 10 years. (And end up charging customers $30/mo x 10 years x 12 mo = $3600 for their product over that time without doing much to make it worth while....Oh, forgot to mention..if you let your subscription lapse, they shut off your license, so, sorry Charlie, all those docs/spreadsheets, etc you made with your MS Office subscription? Yeah, you can only look at them now, not edit them anymore. And you can't transfer them to another format, because MS has locked you into their proprietary format. Sucks to be you.)<BR/><BR/>Ok, so what makes me the expert? For starters, I'm a certified master ms office specialist. I know how much of a pain in the butt it is to get the certs, and it doesn't even cover half of what you can do with the program. I've also used MS Access & Excel enough to know that Excel is really good (although some random crashes suck), and MS Access is ok (being able to plug-n-play with multiple db formats in one cohesive gui environment) but Access has it's own flaws causing it to crash, or pull data slowly, or force you to jump through hoops to do things.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, I work at a job publishing .htm web-pages, but I have to use MS Word to do so. I've used Dreamweaver, Nvu, and even hand-coded HTML...and it's all better than MS Word as a web-page creation device. MS Word is ok, but, again, it's trying to be a jack of all trades (master of none). And it should just leave certain things alone to more specialized apps.<BR/><BR/>Ok, that was turning into more of a rant, but, my point is, a lot of folks will be very happy to just have a light-weight, online office tool. They don't want to spend $700 for tons of stuff they don't use, and for jack of all trades, master of none performance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-388047513590841802007-09-13T12:51:00.000-07:002007-09-13T12:51:00.000-07:00Agreed^ . I Trust google.Agreed^ . I Trust google.Manaswinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02379193583231704387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-77759517628494442512007-07-05T13:45:00.000-07:002007-07-05T13:45:00.000-07:00This is just silly. Apples to Oranges Google Docs...This is just silly. Apples to Oranges <BR/><BR/>Google Docs is a thin client application that gives control of your data to the host site. It has limited capabilities and depends on a fast Internet connection.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft Office 2007 includes entire products that Google does not yet offer. All in a very easy to use fat client UI that also works great with the web.<BR/><BR/>And don't forget the most important Microsoft product that Microsoft has produced in the last several years...SharePoint 2007. This web-based collaboration platform is now part of MS-Office. Many third parties are hosting it on the Internet. Or you can host it yourself. You don't have to trust Microsoft with your freedom.<BR/><BR/>And why the heck would anyone trust Google with ever increasing amounts of their private information is beyond me. <BR/><BR/>Information is power and power corrupts. Is misuse not inevitable? It wouldn't have to be the corporation itself, it could just be a bad apple working within the corporation.<BR/><BR/>Oh...but Google is different. It is OK to trust our freedom with them. They are just trying to improve the human condition. They would never misuse all the information they collect on us. Never. Never. Never.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-17944533840406502282007-06-30T14:59:00.000-07:002007-06-30T14:59:00.000-07:00holy typos batman! :)holy typos batman! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com