Users can choose from an ever-expanding variety of templates, from presentations to spreadsheets to forms. With Docs, there are many more options than just creating a text document. Google Docs saves your work every minute or so, making it easy to hold onto. Before I became more diligent with saving my documents on other word processors, I lost a lot of my work due to crashes and accidental window exiting. Google Docs’s auto-save feature has also saved me numerous times.
Unfortunately, this often tweaks the font and paragraph formatting. Usually to do either of these, I have to use another program and copy-and-paste it into the document or upload a file. Drawings on other processors are usually limited to predefined templates, and it can be very difficult to add mathematical symbols into normal documents. I like these features because they address some issues I have had with other word processors. Font nerds like me will be dismayed at the omission of Helvetica, but it’s a comprehensive enough list for most purposes. Users have a more limited set of fonts than with other word processors-only Arial, Times New Roman, Cominc Sans, Courier, Garamond, Georgia, Tahoma, Trebuchet and Verdana. Here you can see the basic format, using text from the Emancipation Proclamation as an example. With a Google account, users can create a blank document that is viewable in print format. Word Processorĭocs’s most basic feature is modeled after word processors like Microsoft Word. Users can return to older versions in case of errors, something unavailable in Google Docs.
Other online collaborative word processors, such as Basecamp by 37Signals, save multiple versions of documents so there is no work lost. For example, if one user makes a mistake while editing the document and saves it, another would have to go back in and change it. One thing Docs could add to improve its sharing functions would be to save multiple copies of documents so users could return to previous versions. Screen capture showing all documents on Google Docs.
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