Comments on: Microsoft’s Office Web Apps dilemma

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:16:13 +0000

Having used googledocs in anger for a few weeks now there are several minor issues that Word does have. autocorecting for one. I had no idea my typing was so atrocious. Another is document map. With forty or fifty chapters it’s an essential tool.

However, what I don’t miss are Word’s styles. All a morass seemingly locked to US English – yes, the language changes if you change the style – compared to the simplicty of google’s css based approach.

Word 2007 is a great program. Styles seriously let it down. For me, it just got too messy to manage the formatting and the constant arguments with word over the language to use. I have raised this as a bug with Microsoft MVPs but they’re not interested. Sad really. If google made a local apps version with auto correct and document map I’d use it all the time.

By: muck

muck — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:18:33 +0000

I disagree. I want speed and 100% uptime. I couldn’t care if my documents are ruined. That’s just a minor side effect and annoyance.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:40:21 +0000

Microsoft: “What would you like from our new application?”

Customer: “Well, if you could just about manage not to mess up my documents, that would be great.”

Microsoft:”Uh, I think we might be able to to that. We’ll get a team on it straight away!”