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by JoeAltmaier 4121 days ago
Hm yet its leaky, buggy and low-feature. Useful for casual use but nowhere near professional. When will they drop it, or break it? Like some gmail features got broken this week.

Lesson: don't hang anything important on Google apps.

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Google docs is fantastic. I use it exclusively (docs and sheets) and haven't seen anything buggy about it. I have never found myself a wanting a feature in google docs that wasn't also missing from Office. The only limitation I came across in sheets was the limited scope of conditional formatting. That's pretty much it.
FWIW there are a few features I would love to have in docs: different headers/footers for title pages pops out to me. Sheets is a LOT less featured then excel but the scripting is pretty excellent so that actually makes it a better product for most of what I want to do. Plus who really uses the advanced features of excel?
Ive just been using it a week or so, but this is what I remember right off.

Features missing from Word Docs: KeepTogether, orphan/widow management, page layout, reviewing(?)

Bugs:

typeface changes when going back to Normal after any heading (doesn't change but ribbon says it has).

Ctrl-C copies but Ctrl-X doesn't delete text

Font changes randomly DO or DONT apply to the line you're on, when not selected