Google Docs or Office

[nufcfan]

As per the title, what is the concensus?

Office I think offers more advanced features, but is it better for most?

I probably want access on a Windows 10 desktop and iPad. Need to be able to access offline as well, so looking at Google drive or OneDrive giving access to Google docs or office respectively.

[bitchstewie]

What do you need to do?

Either will do most of the basics so one thing may push you in a certain direction.

For example I use Chrome and Google Drive so tend to use Google Docs just because it's better integrated for me.

[Derek Smith]

My daughter-in-law is a writer, not of books, at least at the moment, but of content for websites. She's very good at it and earns more than a police chief inspector in the Mets.

She has gone through various word processors. She now uses Google Docs exclusively. She has a number of writers who work for her and requires them to supply copy in Google Docs. She recently tried for a contract - outcome unknown - with a well known and fairly large company that demanded that she supply copy in Google Docs.

I'v heard criticism of the GD spreadsheet when it get to be very large. but have no experience of this.

I write as well. I use Word - I got 2016 free with one contract - but I would not have bought it myself. I've used Libre Office without problems. Some I know prefer it to MS Office. Some national companies use it in preference to MS Office.

Word is a waste of money unless you need all the bells and smells.

[hutchst]

Interesting question.

I treated myself to a NUC for Christmas. It's now set up with dual boot running Win 10 and Linux Mint. The NUC stays at home, and I have a laptop in the office (also Win 10 + Office 2016). I don't bring the laptop home, it stays in the office except when I go on business trips.

I have a fresh install of Office 2016 Pro on the Win side of the NUC at home, and LibreOffice on linux, and am now just starting to do some comparisons.

Most of my files live on locally connected drives, either inside or attached to the parent machines. But current stuff I'm actually working on or dealing with is in Onedrive so I can get at it and read/modify/save at either location. When I say that, I mean at home I'm opening, modifying and resaving the MS Office files at home using LibreOffice on the linux machine. They are principally Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentation files. So far I have had no problems (other than getting used to where the icons are in LibreOffice, and what they do).

I appreciate the question related to GoogleDocs, not LibreOffice, but I think the principle holds. So far the only thing I'm using Win 10/Office for at home is Outlook, and that is only to use my company mailbox. My personal mail accounts are on the linux side.

If I can find a worthy alternative to Outlook, then I can't see me using Win 10 or Office for very much at all, which is a shame because the software cost me about £300 at Christmas.

[Corso Marche]

I solely use G Suite for personal use, because it works simply and quickly for us as a household.
I will admit to a certain bias though, as I made the personal switch after working as a G Suite admin in an organisation with circa 400 users and made a personal decision that it was a better fit with us.

I use Office online if I receive a file in Office format which I must return to someone in the same format, but that seldom happens. In reality probably once or twice every 24 months in recent years.