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I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head:

* 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...



MS Word templates are one of the most awful things I've ever messed with. I had a fun time using them with pandoc to produce autogenerated word documents. ARGH! The nightmares!

We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not that I have. ahhahahaha.


Is it just about the default font? Most office workers have 0 sense of aesthetics and sometimes official guidelines actively make things ugly (like forcing fonts like Times New Roman on everyone). Or the cutesy Calibri on official notices.


Word is also ugly. When I care what it looks like I use LaTeX.




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