I like the flexibility of Word and the collaborative live editing of gdocs. I'm getting my feet wet with MS's OneDrive-based live editing since it has full Word capabilities. It's pretty good but it's still just not as snappy as gdocs - has maybe a 5 sec lag vs gdocs' 1 sec.
So internally and for final manuscript writing I go with Word. For collaborations it's still gdocs for me.
In my case with my coauthors we've found it efficient to edit manuscripts live, with them on phone/zoom while we all look at the same sentences and paragraphs and edit together. Works well in gdocs. Tried once so far in office and just a bit too slow.
I know it's a rather specific application but I end up doing it a lot.
Person 1: I don't like this sentence in the abstract because [xyz] Person 2: Ok what if we did this {modifies sentence} Person 1: yeah that's better, but lets add in [abc] {modifies sentence} Person 2: that works for me Person 3: but now when I read that it sounds like we're saying [jkl] Person 2: Oh right, {modifies sentence}. How's this? Person 1: Good Person 3: Good...
Maybe doesn't work well for everyone, but works for me (and coauthors). This isn't for initial writing (that would be very
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Word and gdocs (Score:4, Interesting)
I like the flexibility of Word and the collaborative live editing of gdocs. I'm getting my feet wet with MS's OneDrive-based live editing since it has full Word capabilities. It's pretty good but it's still just not as snappy as gdocs - has maybe a 5 sec lag vs gdocs' 1 sec.
So internally and for final manuscript writing I go with Word. For collaborations it's still gdocs for me.
Re: Word and gdocs (Score:2)
In my case with my coauthors we've found it efficient to edit manuscripts live, with them on phone/zoom while we all look at the same sentences and paragraphs and edit together. Works well in gdocs. Tried once so far in office and just a bit too slow.
I know it's a rather specific application but I end up doing it a lot.
Re: (Score:2)
It's more like this:
Person 1: I don't like this sentence in the abstract because [xyz] ...
Person 2: Ok what if we did this {modifies sentence}
Person 1: yeah that's better, but lets add in [abc] {modifies sentence}
Person 2: that works for me
Person 3: but now when I read that it sounds like we're saying [jkl]
Person 2: Oh right, {modifies sentence}. How's this?
Person 1: Good
Person 3: Good
Maybe doesn't work well for everyone, but works for me (and coauthors). This isn't for initial writing (that would be very