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Google Docs
Online document creation and editing
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Google Docs Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
Google Docs FAQs
Q. Who are the typical users of Google Docs?
Q. What languages does Google Docs support?
Google Docs supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Google Docs support mobile devices?
Q. What other apps does Google Docs integrate with?
Google Docs product overview
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Google Docs pricing information
Value for money
4.8
/5
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Google Docs features
Functionality
4.5
/5
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Total features
17
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Google Docs users reviews
Overall Rating
4.7
/5
28K
Positive reviews
- Value for money
- Ease of use
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- Customer support
- Likelihood to recommend9.21/10
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Julliana R.
Partner
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
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Sarah M.
Instructional Technologist
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
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Ho'omana Nathan H.
Higher Education, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Google Docs is the gold standard for document collaboration and sharing. You can send a link so that everyone always sees the latest file (instead of emails bouncing back and forth), you can give and get and accept feedback. Word is the better processor, but OneDrive is unreliable at best for filesharing and the collaborative features in OneDrive are just awful. For anything that will be seen by anyone but me, Google Docs is all I use.
Google Docs makes it SO easy to collaborate with others on documents, give, request, and incorporate comments, and share files that can be updated in realtime. For collaboration and sharing, Google Docs is the only platform I use.
As a word processor, it doesn't have all the great features that Word has. It's not ideal for creating a new document if you need a lot of formatting options (ESPECIALLY tables, which are a nightmare in Docs). Luckily, you can always just upload a document you've created in Word to Docs and it does a pretty good job keeping formatting.
Jason G.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Fantastic software. Google support it heavily and you can google most answers if you get stuck on something.
It’s a very easy software to use, with abundant features that are designed to make your document admin life a lot easier. And it works.
Nothing to not like. All around a decent software and very helpful.
Oliver M.
Higher Education, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Collaborating on medium-length documents with multiple sections and moderately complex formatting is now a breeze in Google Docs. All team members can work on the same document in real-time with little fuss and few issues. Complex formatting may still require export to other software prior to final output. However, for the most part Google Docs just "works"
Intuitive layout, integration with other Google services/offerings and hosting in the cloud make Google Docs arguably the best way for small teams with far-flung members to quickly generate collaborative documents. Four years ago, using Google Docs to author, edit and review documents was a nonstarter due to missing features found in word processing software. Today, many such features have been implemented, such that quick and easy collaboration using Google Docs warrants overlooking remaining "holes" with respect to features.
Working with long documents containing complex section-dependent formatting is still a huge issue. More flexibility in the definition and application of styles is in order. As is more granular control over numbered lists to allow section-based dynamic numbering of figures and tables, for example.
Simone R.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Google Docs is a must have tool in the modern world, for a lot of professionals. It's not easy to find a real alternative - even MS Words falls apart when we compare it to Google Docs regarding the ease of use and the sharing functionalities.
Google Docs is now a mature and fully functional product. I prefer it to MS Word, for its ease of use and integration with Google suite.
Google Docs assumes all your documents will "live" mainly in the Cloud. Even if there is some option to use it offline, this is not the main feature. Also, bear in mind that all your data will stay on Google servers - with all the consequences about privacy that you can imagine.
Judy K.
Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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THe overall experience with Google Docs was really good. Most of the features are so easy to use I believe an 11 year old could master it. There is nothing about this software that would deter a person in purchasing it.
At first I didn't think I would like Google Docs only because I was unfamiliar with it. As I started using it more and more I realized what a great tool it was. There are so many easy features to it and its ease of use was a total winner for me. I find it easy to share with my Partners. The best feature was the hyperlink to other sites, I was blown away by that feature. Using Google Docs is practically a no-brainer.
When I tried to add to the document I found it a little tricky trying to add or delete, it was a different learning curve, it wasn't as user friendly as the other features were.
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