Google Docs is an online word processor, part of 
Google Drive, that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:
• Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document.
• Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff.
• Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access.
• Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document.
• View your document's revision history and roll back to any previous version.
• Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file.
• Translate a document to a different language.
• Email your documents to other people as attachments.
Google Drive, that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:• Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document.
• Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff.
• Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access.
• Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document.
• View your document's revision history and roll back to any previous version.
• Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file.
• Translate a document to a different language.
• Email your documents to other people as attachments.
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Office & Productivity • Remote Work & Education • Security & PrivacyTags
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It's stupid that it's a webapp, but this is one of the rare applications that actually saves your work! (so you don't have to press Ctrl+S every few seconds)
Allows guest editing permissions, may be used for anonymous editing.
If you have beef with Google, then you should already know to avoid this. Aside from that, the functionality of Google Docs, is...serviceable. The collaboration tools (comments, chat room, real-time changes) are all very good. The biggest problem I have with Docs, though, is its atrocious handling of images. Pasting an image into Docs will become a nightmare once you try to move it around.
Good if you are not storying anything sensitive, confidential, personal or corporate documentation. What it has impressed me it is how easy this app can be. I would dump every other app if there is a self-hosted version, even paying a licence fee. I do like anything in the cloud.
Google docs is not a good alternative for microsoft office.
If you need to do things online, I would still recommend microsoft office online.