In the strict mode all your corrections are shown to your co-editor only after saving the document. You can use the fast mode while brainstorming ideas or making final changes to the document together with someone. But ONLYOFFICE allows you to choose between two different co-authoring modes – fast and strict. Google Docs is famous for its real-time co-editing when everything you type appears on the screen of your co-author immediately. Don’t forget what your document looked like! ONLYOFFICE will retain the original formatting of the document regardless of the file size and complexity of its elements. Or if you haven’t changed styles in the online editor settings. Google Docs will open a document correctly if it doesn’t contain any elements that Google editors can’t work with – for example, a system of equations or an autoshape. Open your document in desktop Word to see them again. The image changed its position in the text, all of your formulas turned into sad inscriptions “Equation”. Choose the 2nd variant, wait for some time and say bye-bye to the original formatting. Press “Edit” and you will be asked whether you want to open the doc in MS Word on your PC or in MS Word Online. It is standard MS Word, installed on their server, that shows us this picture. MS Word Online opens documents perfectly using own Viewer. And here’s the result of our little research: the list of things you actually can do using ONLYOFFICE, but can’t using Google Docs or MS Word Online:

We compared ONLYOFFICE online editors to our main rivals – Google Docs and MS Word Online. We’re frequently asked the same question: what benefits does ONLYOFFICE have in comparison with other document editors? So, it’s high time we gave all of you detailed answer.

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