Gregory's ServerI don't use Google Docs very often. But when I do, like right now ... this is a really bad product. I can't do anything of what I want to do. Custom paragraph styles? Nope. Insert a spreadsheet? Nope. We had all of those since ... the eighties? Why not in Google Docs?
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@paninid Now that would be an entirely other can of worms. Spaghetti code worms that is. Libreoffice is ugly as hell, and its UX is not very good, but at least it gets to job done. And free.  @J12t I've always *hated* WYSIWYG editors with a passion. If I want to write something efficiently I'll use anything but that. The only use I've had lately for word editors is to print envelopes as it's very easy to format the paper and text orientation, there's let's than a dozen lines, only one font and no style. @J12t OTOH I've been forced to use Google sheets a couple years back and it wasn't that bad, maybexcel when sticking only to formulas. Amongst others I was rendering heatmaps (sort of) and the one thing that bugged me the most was the lack of gradients. That said I also encountered very weird FP comparison inconsistencies lately... Same formatting, data type, everything but same computed values compared inequal due to rounding errors, big fail IMHO. @J12t P.S. it was only additions and subtractions of two decimal numbers (money). While I understand the issues working with FP numbers I think spreadsheets should be able to abstract this, especially when all values have the same precision (ex. divisions...) and data types are set to financial. Plus it just stopped working like that (I've been using the same sheets/formulas for years without any issue). |
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It’s almost enough to make one pay for Microsoft products.