What features in Office are essential for those users that you don't get from Google?
If you're talking about Excel I can imagine there are such features but not so much in other apps.
If you're talking about Excel I can imagine there are such features but not so much in other apps.
* Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good.
* Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1]
* Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates that I can use to format my offers. They often have an option to download a docx file, but it's complex through that you can't important it to Google docs without breaking it completely.
* Word/Libreoffice works offline (maybe docs with serviceworkers too? It never worked for me when I needed it).
* You can use word to generate documents using a template, don't think it's possible with Google docs
* Macros are not supported in Google docs
And I'm a complete noob when it comes to document editing software and actively avoid it. I can only imagine how much powerusers miss.
[1] https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hi...
We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not that I have. ahhahahaha.
A specific problem in this scenario is tracked changes. Google has a history/version control but it does not map particularly well onto Word's tracked changes, which the other party will understand and is likely to want to use. Passing things into and out of Google will often result in loss of useful information like that.
Personally: Word is the absolute best piece of software for dealing with numbered lists that is easily available. In many ways it is terrible of course, but it is less terrible than anything else. Getting numbering right is important.
Google has gotten better. It used to be very bad at larger and more complicated documents. But it still doesn't have all I need to write a really good contract (at least by my standards of "really good").
Backward compatibility with existing documents that are already in Word. Also, for those knowledge workers who aren’t in tech, the high likelihood that the recipient can open the document with correct formatting.
Set up Thunderbird on my work desktop that day, and haven't looked back. Wish I would have way sooner, to be honest.
The interface is far nicer than outlook, but the performance is just too annoying for me.
The order varies depending on what you do, each can become absolutely critical.
Outlook online doesn't seem to have any rule capability and can't talk to 3rd party email servers.
Some colleagues have issues because it can't handle very large documents too (above a few hundred pages).
It is basically the opposite of most MS products. There is not one feature that stands out as to why I hate Word, it is the summation of all the little things I hate about it that is the issue.