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Google Docs

Powerful online word processor with real-time collaboration, document conversion from Word, extensive formatting options, revision history, and multilingual capabilities, all integrated within the Google Drive ecosystem, accessible through any internet-connected device.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
4.0
Very Good12 reviews
952likes
18comments

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Real time collaboration
  2.  Team Collaboration
  3.  Cloud based
  4.  Collaborative writing
  5.  Online Sharing
  6.  High Availability
  7. Office Online icon  Office Online integration
  8.  Autosave log
  9.  File Versioning
  10.  Upload directly to Google Drive
  11.  Text formatting
  12.  Scanner
  13.  Online collaboration
  14.  Google Login
  15.  Dark Mode
  16. Google Calendar icon  Sync with Google Calendar
  17. IFTTT icon  IFTTT Integration
  18.  Collaborative live documents
  19.  Works Offline
  20.  Multiple Font Colors
  21.  Export to PDF

 Tags

  • automatic-suggestions

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Google Docs is praised for its ease of use, collaboration tools, automatic saving feature, and being free, making it ideal for students and team-based projects. It excels in real-time editing and document sharing, but users raise concerns about its web-based nature limiting offline access and privacy issues due to its cloud reliance. Some users suggest that Google Docs has superior functionality compared to Microsoft Word, although handling images can be problematic.
Top Positive Comment
ab1
0

"Help Docs improve" button with optional screenshots is just great sometimes!

Top Negative Comment
Julien Mercier
-2

Google docs is not a good alternative for microsoft office. If you need to do things online, I would still recommend microsoft office online.

rmn
0

Still one of the best online collaboration tools for working with text that almost everyone is familiar with. Great version history, commenting, and editing features. The UI is simple enough, and yet there are a lot of powerful features under the hood. Been using it for many years with many different people, and it's just consistently reliable and stable.

ab1
0

They have many minor improvements over years. They don't make news for every change. Some features can be undocumented.

Try new things yourself!

Megan Beckitt
0

Google is just the best for online work. Editing and suggesting modes are amazing for team work and learning without immediate changes.

Steven
0

Used it to write my papers in college/uni. It took off alot of stress, since it saves automatically in the cloud. Google's format doesn't take up any space in Google Drive. Files can be downloaded as pdfs, docx, odf, and others. I mostly download files as docx. Combined with LibreOffice for local use, it's pretty useful.

It's recommend for taking notes, and making bibliographies. Most of my classmates and I used Google's office suit to collab on assignments if needed.

Gaila Everett
0

Like this for my projects with schoolmates!

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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What is Google Docs?

Google Docs is a web-based word processor part of Google Drive icon Google Drive . It allows users to create, format, and share text documents in real-time. Users can upload Word documents and convert them into Google documents for easy editing. It offers features to adjust document aesthetics like margins, spacing, fonts, and colors. Users can also invite others to collaborate on a document with different access levels.

Google Docs provides a revision history to revert to previous versions. It allows downloading documents in various formats like Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML, or zip file. It also has a translation feature and the ability to email documents as attachments.

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Google Docs information

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4 (12 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Albanian
    • Amharic
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Assamese
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bengali
    • Bosnian
    • Bulgarian
    • Burmese
    • Khmer
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Gujarati
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kannada
    • Kazakh
    • Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
    • Korean
    • Lao
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Macedonian
    • Malay
    • Malayalam
    • Marathi
    • Mongolian
    • Nepali
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Oriya
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Panjabi, Punjabi
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Sinhala, Sinhalese
    • Slovak
    • Slovene
    • Spanish
    • Swahili
    • Swedish
    • Tagalog
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
    • Thai
    • Chinese
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Uzbek
    • Vietnamese
    • Zulu

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