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If you’re working on a collaborative document or group project, Zoho is your first choice, displacing even what MS Office 2010 so far has to offer. Winner: Zoho - Zoho has all the online sharing, user-control, and collaboration features that Google Docs brings to bear, but with more features and a nicer interface.
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What can these apps do that Office can’t? Zoho is Google Docs with a few more bells and whistles, but not enough to be a full-time Office displacer. ThinkFree simply isn’t reliable enough for basic users, let alone those of us that depend on an office suite every day.
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Pass: IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 - Based on the same original source code as OpenOffice, Symphony has most of the same functionality, but with noticeably less polish and third-party support.įail: Google Docs, ThinkFree Office Online Beta, Zoho - Google Docs is stripped to the bone, so much so that basics like format fine-tuning or advanced find/replace tasks are flat-out missing. It has almost all the same power functions (mail-merge, Web format output) and shortcut keys as Office, and none of the ribbon interface that drives many Office 2007 users crazy.
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Winner: OpenOffice 3.1 - Frankly OpenOffice is the only contender here that made a veteran MS Office user (and professional writer and speaker) feel at home. How well does an app accommodate those of us that lean heavily on our word processor, spreadsheets, or presentations to get the job done? We don’t do occasional tasks in our productivity suites we perform daily, job-critical functions. Some of us use an office suite as our primary job tool, and we’ve got a number of tips and tricks to show for it. Add to that the bizarre scheme that segregates document sharing from document editing and you’ve got a loser. Symphony is somewhere in the middle of Zoho and OpenOffice, but it’s just as easy to use.įail: ThinkFree Office Online Beta - ThinkFree had the worst server latency and timeout issues I’ve ever experienced with a Web app (and I use Twitter daily). Along those same lines, OpenOffice is almost a clone of Word 2003, right down to the submenus. Pass: IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3, OpenOffice 3.1, Zoho - Zoho is like Google Docs with extra polish and more robust features, but the core simplicity - dolled up to look like MS Word 2003 - is still there.
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Almost anyone can use it from the word go. Google offers the bare minimum functionality presented in a usable style with plenty of online support to help you along the way. Winner: Google Docs - This is where Google Docs is designed to shine, and it does. How easy is it to switch to a new layout and set of menus? We’ve all had years of training and practice at using Microsoft Word. Google Docs and Zoho are simply paying the price for being Web-based: They occasionally mangle heavily formatted or graphics-intensive documents, which can be a real pain when it comes to spreadsheet forms or presentations.
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For an online Web app, that’s very high praise.įail: Google Docs, IBM Lotus Symphony, Zoho - Symphony falls down in its inability to save to newer Office formats it can open almost anything, and convert it quite well, but you have almost no choice but to save in Open Document format or old-school Word. While that choice cost ThinkFree in other areas, it does mean that you can open almost anything in ThinkFree with minimal format drift. Pass: ThinkFree Online Beta - ThinkFree made an interesting choice to segregate document viewing and sharing from document editing. This versatility extends to both spreadsheets and presentations, too.
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More to the point, OpenOffice can save to virtually any format it opens, and it has a top-notch native PDF output option. Winner: OpenOffice 3.1 - Thanks to some serious third-party and open-source community support, OpenOffice can handle almost any format you throw at it, including Office 2007. Can your app open - and save to - a variety of document formats, including all the new and old Office file types? You don’t have to use MS Office, but almost everybody else will.
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The overall points-winner will be crowned the best free alternative to Microsoft Office that money can’t buy. A rank of Winner will confer two points, a rank of Pass will confer one point, and rank of Fail will confer zero points. In each of the following categories, the contending applications will be graded as the overall Winner, Pass, or Fail.