Comparing a Word document on Office Web Apps on SkyDrive or Office 365 to Google Apps

David Overton — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:13:45 GMT

Hi, I’ve been asked this before, so I thought I would share this today. I don’t use Google Apps, so I don’t have personal experience of the services, however I work with companies who employee’s choose to use the services – often because they can’t access the corporate environment from home or have file size limits that stop them. Anyway, I do use Word, Excel and PowerPoint and I use quite a lot of the features in my documents (e.g. the book and reports in Word, my personal finance spread sheet in Excel and numerous presentations in PowerPoint). I’m fussy, I like my documents to render the same, no matter what device I’m accessing them from and especially when I’m presenting. I’ve always seen the differences when they are shared with products other than Office and have been known to spend a couple of hours fixing them up once they come out of the “other” services. People ask me why I stick to Microsoft, this is one of the reasons. Today I saw this - http://bit.ly/tSedOC – it has a...(read more)

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Comparing a Word document on Office Web Apps on SkyDrive or Office 365 to Google Apps