Comments on: Like a Plodding Tortoise Poised to Win, Google Docs Adds .docx, .xlsx Support http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/google-docs-docx-xlsx-support/ Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/google-docs-docx-xlsx-support/#comment-419252 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36762#comment-419252 about time. but yet, they do have the problems pam mentioned. Gdocs is certainly no alternative to word.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/google-docs-docx-xlsx-support/#comment-419251 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:59:27 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36762#comment-419251 Ugh. That’s a bummer, Pam. If I wrote heavily formatted documents, I’d likely be in the same boat. Sounds like they have some work to do; I hope you reported the issue to them and that they get it fixed soon.

]]> By: Pam T. http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/google-docs-docx-xlsx-support/#comment-419250 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:55:00 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36762#comment-419250 Sorry Kevin, as far as I’m concerned Google has broken Docs badly. Uploading a doc strips the formatting from a Word document terribly – I lost not only the hanging indents, but also the line spacing. I used this back in the days of Writely and I never had these problems. Now a doc only works if I used Docs to originally write it. Overall, I don’t think GDocs works at all as advertised.

I’ve switched over to Zoho Docs for the time being, as I love their desktop app, but they have speed issues, IMHO.

]]> By: Pam T. http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/google-docs-docx-xlsx-support/#comment-419248 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:47:12 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36762#comment-419248 Dare I hope they’ve fixed some of their other problems as well? I quit using GDocs when they refused to recognize the hanging indent on uploaded docs. Stripped it out on the save and made writing manuscripts there useless.

Must go see…

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