While Google offers offline versions through plugins with the Chrome browser, they are not always consistent or reliable. You can easily collaborate and share without downloading anything, add missing features with plugin integrations, and work with files from a variety of formats including Microsoft Office files. It works great on Windows, Mac, Linux, and any other computer with a modern web browser.
The combination of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Meet, Google Chat, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Forms come together around online storage solution Google Drive as a top-notch productivity offering. The best Microsoft Office alternative for businesses is Google Workspace (formerly G suite). External contacts can join online meetings using the Lync client application, or a Web-based client.Google Workspace is our overall top pick due to its easy-to-use interface, online storage, and massive combination of workplace productivity tools. With Lync Online, you can share and collaborate in real time on any item on your desktop. However, Office 365 handily makes up for the lack of native collaboration within documents by making it easy to set up an online whiteboard session through its Lync Online service. Microsoft recently rolled out a coauthoring function for the Word Web App, but it works only when you’re sharing files from the Windows Live SkyDrive file storage service, and when you’re using the Word Web App it doesn’t work with Office 365. Office 365 provides some real-time collaboration capabilities in Excel and OneNote, but not in Word and PowerPoint. You won’t necessarily be able to add or edit many of the more advanced formatting elements from the desktop Office tools (such as footnotes, headers, or a table of contents), but you can view them, and at least they won’t screw up.
When it comes to document fidelity–maintaining formatting consistency from a Microsoft Office program to a cloud-based equivalent and back again (or vice versa)–no online productivity platform is perfect.Īs you might expect, though, Office 365 beats out both Google Apps and Zoho Docs in this department.
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