Post #2686023

2026-05-19 08:01 UTC

Is Google Docs as popular as Microsoft Office? I work in finance/insurance and can’t see a way to move away for Excel (there’s still there spreadsheets with 10+ years still being used). My wife’s company uses GDocs, but they’re do food research and barely uses those programs.

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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-05-19 11:33

This is because Microsoft intentionally breaks excel and PP compatibility with Google docs in small but important ways. It's the only thing keeping them afloat at this point. I have gotten into heated debates at work over this, because I prefer Google docs, but my boss will be like "we need to deliver this to customers who will open it in office and the formatting will break" and I'm like "that's what a pdf is for."

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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 08:32

As far as I can tell, Google Docs is at feature-parity with Office, and yes, is incredibly popular. The contest might be a bit more even in the corporate space, but at the last three companies I've worked for, GSuite was the default and you had to ask for Office.

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