Google Docs --- anyone use it?

Trollheart · 10-30-2013, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Rezdaddy Longlegs

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If you won't use that then yes google docs is ok and reliable but doesnt have near the options in formatting etc that open office or Microsoft office does.

Thanks Rez. Have that but had a lot of problems --- files disappearing and so on,

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Originally Posted by Engine

It has been essential to me - mostly for sharing documents/working on collaborative things though. As for its reliability, as long as Google doesn't go out of business or have all their servers crash (it's possible) then it will save your stuff forever. As for local saving you can do that by going (in any specific google doc) to: "File>Download as" and it will DL to your hard drive in a file format of your choice (.pdf, .txt, .html, and so on)

Thanks Engine, I did not know that. Very helpful tip. Appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Da fuq? Why would you trust local saves over cloud storage? Cloud storage is saved forevers!!!!

Local saves are so fickle and if your machine crashes and dies on you then it's a wrap but cloud storage is way more better to depend on. As soon as your machine is useless you can always get your docs back on a new machine.

Dunno. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer to have a physical (as it were) copy of the file I can see when I want to, move places if I need to make backups and so forth, rather than trust that a "city in the sky" I'm never going to visit is holding my files safe for me. No, I'm not very au fait with cloud computing, obviously.