Google Has Expanded Its Productivity Apps To Compete With Microsoft Office

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Recently, Google has expanded the series of its productivity apps, including Google Docs, Google Sheets, and latest one, Google Slides for Android. It seems that these apps will be available for iOS as well.

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are the good alternatives to choose if you are not too keen with Microsoft Office’s performance and price. Actually, there are a lot of free, open source document processing programs out there, like OpenOffice and LibreOffice to name a few. However, Google’s productivity apps offers a little advantage over other apps on the market: they allow you to edit Microsoft Office files without needing to convert them.

Other feature that makes Google apps stand out is its Suggested Edit mode for PC, which they promised to be available on mobile version right away. The feature allows multiple users to edit the document, where the document user can either accept or reject. The feature itself is not entirely new, as Microsoft Office has implemented the same feature long ago. Still, with Suggested Edit, Google is trying to say that their products are “as good as Microsoft” and it’s completely free.

These Google products (Docs, Sheets and Slides) will have full offline support, so you don’t need to have an Internet connection in order to create, edit or view files, both in PC or mobile.