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Create, edit and collaborate with others on documents from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Docs app. With Docs you can:
- Create new documents or edit existing files
- Share documents and collaborate in the same document at the same time.
- Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
- Add and respond to comments.
- Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type.
- Research, right in Docs with Explore
- Open, edit and save Word documents.
Permissions Notice
Contacts: This is used to give suggestions of people to add to files and share with.
Storage: This is used to save and open files on USB or SD storage.
- Create new documents or edit existing files
- Share documents and collaborate in the same document at the same time.
- Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
- Add and respond to comments.
- Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type.
- Research, right in Docs with Explore
- Open, edit and save Word documents.
Permissions Notice
Contacts: This is used to give suggestions of people to add to files and share with.
Storage: This is used to save and open files on USB or SD storage.
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Create, edit, and collaborate on the go with the Google Docs app.
Work together in real time
* Share documents with your team
* Edit, comment and add action items in real time
* Never lose changes or previous versions of your document with version history
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
* Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
* Get things done, even on the plane, with offline mode
* Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Search Google right in Docs
* Use Google Search without leaving your document
* Search all of your files in Drive, right in Docs
Edit and share multiple file types
* Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
* Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use
* Convert and export files seamlessly
Part of G Suite: Google’s intelligent apps for business
* Connect and collaborate with your team, using one suite—Gmail, Drive, Calendar and more
* Use Google’s AI to bring data insights to every employee
* Join more than 4M paying businesses who trust G Suite to power their organization
Permissions Notice
Camera: This is used to takes photos to insert into documents.
Photos: This is used to access photos under the control of Photos Application to let the users pick images to insert into documents.
Work together in real time
* Share documents with your team
* Edit, comment and add action items in real time
* Never lose changes or previous versions of your document with version history
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
* Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
* Get things done, even on the plane, with offline mode
* Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Search Google right in Docs
* Use Google Search without leaving your document
* Search all of your files in Drive, right in Docs
Edit and share multiple file types
* Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
* Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use
* Convert and export files seamlessly
Part of G Suite: Google’s intelligent apps for business
* Connect and collaborate with your team, using one suite—Gmail, Drive, Calendar and more
* Use Google’s AI to bring data insights to every employee
* Join more than 4M paying businesses who trust G Suite to power their organization
Permissions Notice
Camera: This is used to takes photos to insert into documents.
Photos: This is used to access photos under the control of Photos Application to let the users pick images to insert into documents.
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Jan 19, 2021 As with so many Google products, Docs worked well and integrated seemlessly with other products- until the inevitable glitch shows up. Usually the glitch is annoying, long-standing and leaves users scratching our heads for the absurdity of it. The fact that there's NO SIMPLE MARGIN TOOL in this app makes me want to throw up my hands, yet I just can't bear to move many years of work to another platform. And so we carry on.more -
Better for Personal Use
May 5, 2019 I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell.more -
Jan 17, 2021 I love this app. I do have a few issues that keep me from putting five stars. I have a doc that im working in for a book and it takes FOREVER to load all the pages, no type of format saves when I copy and paste into and from the app and it deletes my things sometimes. My book is over 330 pages and I don't want to start over if the app decides to bug out. Edit: Still have a problem with loading but it goes a but faster now. If there's anything that will help, maybe a way to load pages faster.more -
Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Aug 6, 2018 Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly.more -
Jan 3, 2021 Let me be clear: I love docs. Being able to collaborate on works and leaving comments in real time is brilliant. I wrote and published a novel with docs. It is garbage on phones or tablets. Once you get over/around 100 pages, it is laggy, glitchy, and you have to fight the document itself to work on it. Just got a brand new tablet and thought it just didn't work well on my old one. Nope, it's docs itself. Poorly optimized for anything but a real computer.more
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Jan 17, 2021 Google Docs has become a pure nightmare! Before, it was next to impossible to get docs to save a file on my device. Had to save it to the cloud, then download it to my divice. I used to be able to do this with CX File Explorer. But now the files won't transfer. Downloading them via Google Drive results in a PDF file (that Docs won't open). Looks like I'm going to have to cut and paste all my files from the cloud to my device, then remove Docs, and find another cloud for storage.more -
Jan 7, 2021 That awful floating menu is driving me mad. Every htime I try to do something it pops up although all it does is get in my way. Can you PLEASE HELP fasten it down somewhere? Use 6" nails or superglue if you have to, or but keep it out of my way. Can you also add Select in place of Comments, please which could go into a separate menu. I don't know what the new upgrade was intended to do, since the same old problems still persist. Instability is getting worse, and the app is practically unusable.more -
Jan 9, 2021 Attention Google, this really needs to be addressed. For some reason, when ever I try to stop downloading Google docs, it keeps redownloading itself. I am trying to recover my apps, but Google docs is constantly pending, so I can't. Again, even when I attempt to stop it from downloading, it somehow starts redownloading itself again, no matter what I try. Please fix this so I can recover my other apps.more -
Jan 12, 2021 It seems that the text selection-freezing issue is still prevalent. Selecting text can take up to 10 min or more just because the app keeps on becoming frozen while selecting significant amounts of text. Edit: I just updated to the latest version and I think it freezes EVEN more! I can't hardly even select three paragraphs without the app freezing until I close it. SUPER frustrating. Galaxy S8+ with Android 9, never had this problem with any other app. None of the updates ever fix it.more -
Jan 16, 2021 I added some information in one of my Google docs file on mobile phone everyday. On Jan 13 I opened this file and discovered that the information (text) that was added last days (10-12 Jan 2021) had been lost. I can't find it despite I've had sync switched on. I tried opening the file in my Google Drive on PC but the result is the same. Also sometimes I fail to open my files in offline mode despite they are marked to be available offlinemore
- Take your documents on the go when you create new or edit exiting files that can be shared to collaborators
- No matter where you are you can access your documents offline
- Simple to use interface makes it easy to add and respond to comments, research topics with Explore, and turn into Word documents
Reviewed by Chris on November 15, 2018
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I use this app a lot
Aug 10, 2019 I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions.more -
Jan 6, 2021 I love Google Docs. All of Google's productivity apps are clearly designed by people with brains for people with things to do. There's nothing fancy about Docs; it's just a simple, clean app with all the features you need and everything right where you'd expect it. I appreciate the Google Drive cloud integration too. Being able to access my work from any computer or phone in the world is kinda cool.more -
Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Jul 9, 2019 Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations.more -
Jan 1, 2021 I love Google documents! I use it everyday. It is my favorite place to store my anythings and everythings like my to do lists even my grocery lists. I even store my thoughts in documents just like you would do if it were a personal diary. It's great for copying and pasting things that I like or need to remember and links to websites ect. I could go on and on. I love Google documents! I have ZERO complaints.more -
Dec 18, 2020 This app is very helpful, it's perfect for whatever your hobby is. Whether it's righting novels, writing lyrics, writings scripts, or even just writing an essay for school! So many different fonts, formats, sizes of lettering, it has everything you need! You can save endless amounts of documents, and you can name them so you don't lose them. This app is perfect!!!!more
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Better for Personal Use
May 5, 2019 I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell.more -
Jan 17, 2021 I love this app. I do have a few issues that keep me from putting five stars. I have a doc that im working in for a book and it takes FOREVER to load all the pages, no type of format saves when I copy and paste into and from the app and it deletes my things sometimes. My book is over 330 pages and I don't want to start over if the app decides to bug out. Edit: Still have a problem with loading but it goes a but faster now. If there's anything that will help, maybe a way to load pages faster.more -
Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Aug 6, 2018 Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly.more -
Jan 8, 2021 It's been good so far. But after updating it I can't open it. An error occurred pops up anytime I try opening a document or try to add a new document. And before this problem, I made some of my documents available offline but I'd have to turn on my data before I can have access them. Kindly work on this for me cos I really like this appmore -
Great, except...
Jun 18, 2018 Like most people of Generation Z, the later years of my education (8th grade-present) have greatly benefited from using Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Docs’s amazing accessibility, collaboration tools, storage, and auto-save have always been what’s made it better than competing office tools. The app itself is great, and once you get the hand of using it on a hand held device, it makes working from almost anywhere possible. I’ve found myself using these Google applications for more than just essays and presentations now a days, as I begin to need work resumés and finance budgets. So really, Docs (and other Google applications) are great! Except, I’ve encountered an issue when using this Docs app. Now, this could be because of several reasons, however, I’ve found that after prolonged used, when typing, the keyboard begins to lag a bunch, making working on documents so frustrating. At first I thought that the keyboard could be lagging because my iPad might’ve over heated? But, the keyboard has lagged even when the iPad doesn’t feel warm. I’m not sure if internet connection might have something to do with it, but my Wifi is pretty strong, and I rarely encounter issues with it. That’s my only complaint, but other than that I really do love the app.more
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Jan 19, 2021 As with so many Google products, Docs worked well and integrated seemlessly with other products- until the inevitable glitch shows up. Usually the glitch is annoying, long-standing and leaves users scratching our heads for the absurdity of it. The fact that there's NO SIMPLE MARGIN TOOL in this app makes me want to throw up my hands, yet I just can't bear to move many years of work to another platform. And so we carry on.more -
Jan 3, 2021 Let me be clear: I love docs. Being able to collaborate on works and leaving comments in real time is brilliant. I wrote and published a novel with docs. It is garbage on phones or tablets. Once you get over/around 100 pages, it is laggy, glitchy, and you have to fight the document itself to work on it. Just got a brand new tablet and thought it just didn't work well on my old one. Nope, it's docs itself. Poorly optimized for anything but a real computer.more -
Google did me wrong at the worst possible moment
Nov 22, 2019 You know how we all rely on google for turning in class assignments? Well... IT DID ME WRONG AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT!!! I take AP World History and had something due today and couldn’t get on it until this weekend but this week it was updated for a big fix that has going on for weeks now that is still going on!!! The app crashes at random times whether it’s long or short periods of time, and this week it’s gotten worse to the point I can’t even see my cursor when I type on my phone anymore and whenever I try to exit out of the page to refresh, I suddenly see two icons of my own account that was recently on the doc and and still see the cursor I recently used on my doc. I was copying and pasting my work from one box onto another but suddenly no matter how many times I double tapped on my screen, I couldn’t paste, forcing me to restart my phone and try again and once I got back on my doc, I realized I never pasted my paragraph back on the doc and now my work is lost until I can get on a computer tomorrow and search my version history and revive my lost work!! Sad to say, google can’t be relied on for everything especially when it’s been having a problem that gone unnoticed and unsolved for over 2 months now.more -
Meh.
Oct 6, 2019 The only reason I use Google Docs over programs like Pages and Word is that my school system uses it and I have unlimited storage for Google Docs in my drive (which by the way is great). But the app is just sooooo s l o w. I don’t know if this is an issue with my iPad (which has plenty of performance issues itself) or with the app, but it’s nearly unusable for me. When I use my bluetooth keyboard with it the text is very laggy (or with the onscreen keyboard for that matter) and text editing is an iOS 12-style nightmare. You can’t drag your finger over text to select it like in iOS 13, you have to tap on the cursor, select “Select,” and then drag over all the text you want to select (which is very slow and laggy). I would really appreciate a couple of features, like viewing the same app in multiple spaces in iPadOS (because I find myself needing to look at multiple docs at once more and more these days) or at least some kind of similar system and a better Explore feature like on desktop. And as several other people have mentioned the text correction is nowhere near perfect. It always marks weird things as grammatically incorrect that are perfectly fine. Google please please please please listen and thanks for readingmore -
Google Docs is OK but painful on iPad
Oct 30, 2017 I think if I used an external keyboard it might be better, but formatting and getting spreadsheets to function like excel is really not an option. I find that trying to select text to cut and paste or copy or for formatting font size or color is very frustrating. You have to grab and roll your finger just right or you select too much. Also, when backspacing, use caution. I couldn't stop it from deleting far more than i wanted. Make sure you select what you want to delete instead of relying on bkspc to stop when you want it to. I am happy I found a way to do my budget on my iPad since my laptop is tedious to start up just to work on my finances, but i do wish it wasn't so painful to toggle into edit mode. Google should talk to more end users, and I am also not a fan of the company being that I have a 35 yr Career in Technology and I am FEMALE...so I am sure they will wake up and come into the 21st century soon with their treatment of women, and get more women managing projects and holding positions of power. Their tolerance for misogyny is incredibly sickening. I wish someone from a more progressive company would invent a better alternative since I don't trust or like Google.more
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Jan 16, 2021 I added some information in one of my Google docs file on mobile phone everyday. On Jan 13 I opened this file and discovered that the information (text) that was added last days (10-12 Jan 2021) had been lost. I can't find it despite I've had sync switched on. I tried opening the file in my Google Drive on PC but the result is the same. Also sometimes I fail to open my files in offline mode despite they are marked to be available offlinemore -
For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
Feb 4, 2020 I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t.more
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Jan 17, 2021 Google Docs has become a pure nightmare! Before, it was next to impossible to get docs to save a file on my device. Had to save it to the cloud, then download it to my divice. I used to be able to do this with CX File Explorer. But now the files won't transfer. Downloading them via Google Drive results in a PDF file (that Docs won't open). Looks like I'm going to have to cut and paste all my files from the cloud to my device, then remove Docs, and find another cloud for storage.more -
Jan 7, 2021 That awful floating menu is driving me mad. Every htime I try to do something it pops up although all it does is get in my way. Can you PLEASE HELP fasten it down somewhere? Use 6" nails or superglue if you have to, or but keep it out of my way. Can you also add Select in place of Comments, please which could go into a separate menu. I don't know what the new upgrade was intended to do, since the same old problems still persist. Instability is getting worse, and the app is practically unusable.more -
Jan 9, 2021 Attention Google, this really needs to be addressed. For some reason, when ever I try to stop downloading Google docs, it keeps redownloading itself. I am trying to recover my apps, but Google docs is constantly pending, so I can't. Again, even when I attempt to stop it from downloading, it somehow starts redownloading itself again, no matter what I try. Please fix this so I can recover my other apps.more -
Jan 12, 2021 It seems that the text selection-freezing issue is still prevalent. Selecting text can take up to 10 min or more just because the app keeps on becoming frozen while selecting significant amounts of text. Edit: I just updated to the latest version and I think it freezes EVEN more! I can't hardly even select three paragraphs without the app freezing until I close it. SUPER frustrating. Galaxy S8+ with Android 9, never had this problem with any other app. None of the updates ever fix it.more -
Dec 29, 2020 I don't like the available offline symbol. I manually set each document to not be available offline, just to get rid of the symbol. This app does not give me the option to encrypt my data with my own personal password. Some Google employees are able to read my documents. I need an encryption option which is similar to the encryption option which Chrome offers for saved passwords. I want to use an encryption password which cannot be reset by Google.more
What’s Groovy
I’m a writer and google docs is my go-to for writing. I love it, it’s simple and accessible from any device and saves automatically so I don’t lose anything if I accidentally close out.
Actually, it’s pretty much perfectly me except for the fact that it starts lagging a bit if my document begins getting too long (I’ve had to start writing the second part of a story in a separate document which can get sort of annoying but also it’s not The Worst), AND that also brings me to the point of y review: this app crashes on me All. The. Time. I’ll be writing, and suddenly my screen will go black and then I’m on my home screen bc. Well, it crashed. No clue why, it’s happened on so many occasions with all different sized of documents, it just happens, and it’s so annoying because sometimes it kills y writing groove, you know? It’s be great if this could possibly be fixed. Happens on both iphone and iPad, probably more often with longer documents (maybe a hundred pages idk) but has also happened with shorter ones. I’ve been writing for maybe four hours and it’s happened to me three times today. Again, it’s definitely not a deal breaker, I love docs and I’ll never go for anything else, but it is super irritating.
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Disappointing - You'd have thought Google would be able to produce an app that is reliable and works well. Unfortunately this app doesn't work as it should - documents created and edited on Chrome lose functionality when editied with the app and visa versa. Try linking in to Google Sheets and the woes are exacerbated. Google should be really good at this stuff, but they keep switching things around making for a frustrating user experience. I'm finding migration from Microsoft to Google just isn
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As with so many Google products, Docs worked well and integrated seemlessly with other products- until the inevitable glitch shows up. Usually the glitch is annoying, long-standing and leaves users scratching our heads for the absurdity of it. The fact that there's NO SIMPLE MARGIN TOOL in this app makes me want to throw up my hands, yet I just can't bear to move many years of work to another platform. And so we carry on.
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Better for Personal Use
I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell. -
I love this app. I do have a few issues that keep me from putting five stars. I have a doc that im working in for a book and it takes FOREVER to load all the pages, no type of format saves when I copy and paste into and from the app and it deletes my things sometimes. My book is over 330 pages and I don't want to start over if the app decides to bug out. Edit: Still have a problem with loading but it goes a but faster now. If there's anything that will help, maybe a way to load pages faster.
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Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly. -
Let me be clear: I love docs. Being able to collaborate on works and leaving comments in real time is brilliant. I wrote and published a novel with docs. It is garbage on phones or tablets. Once you get over/around 100 pages, it is laggy, glitchy, and you have to fight the document itself to work on it. Just got a brand new tablet and thought it just didn't work well on my old one. Nope, it's docs itself. Poorly optimized for anything but a real computer.
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I use this app a lot
I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions. -
I love Google Docs. All of Google's productivity apps are clearly designed by people with brains for people with things to do. There's nothing fancy about Docs; it's just a simple, clean app with all the features you need and everything right where you'd expect it. I appreciate the Google Drive cloud integration too. Being able to access my work from any computer or phone in the world is kinda cool.
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Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations. -
It's been good so far. But after updating it I can't open it. An error occurred pops up anytime I try opening a document or try to add a new document. And before this problem, I made some of my documents available offline but I'd have to turn on my data before I can have access them. Kindly work on this for me cos I really like this app
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Great, except...
Like most people of Generation Z, the later years of my education (8th grade-present) have greatly benefited from using Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Docs’s amazing accessibility, collaboration tools, storage, and auto-save have always been what’s made it better than competing office tools. The app itself is great, and once you get the hand of using it on a hand held device, it makes working from almost anywhere possible. I’ve found myself using these Google applications for more than just essays and presentations now a days, as I begin to need work resumés and finance budgets. So really, Docs (and other Google applications) are great! Except, I’ve encountered an issue when using this Docs app. Now, this could be because of several reasons, however, I’ve found that after prolonged used, when typing, the keyboard begins to lag a bunch, making working on documents so frustrating. At first I thought that the keyboard could be lagging because my iPad might’ve over heated? But, the keyboard has lagged even when the iPad doesn’t feel warm. I’m not sure if internet connection might have something to do with it, but my Wifi is pretty strong, and I rarely encounter issues with it. That’s my only complaint, but other than that I really do love the app.
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Works but uhhh
I can’t get on it currently I need help, cuz I need to finish an assignment. O-O
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I use this app a lot
I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions. -
I love Google Docs. All of Google's productivity apps are clearly designed by people with brains for people with things to do. There's nothing fancy about Docs; it's just a simple, clean app with all the features you need and everything right where you'd expect it. I appreciate the Google Drive cloud integration too. Being able to access my work from any computer or phone in the world is kinda cool.
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Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations. -
I love Google documents! I use it everyday. It is my favorite place to store my anythings and everythings like my to do lists even my grocery lists. I even store my thoughts in documents just like you would do if it were a personal diary. It's great for copying and pasting things that I like or need to remember and links to websites ect. I could go on and on. I love Google documents! I have ZERO complaints.
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This app is very helpful, it's perfect for whatever your hobby is. Whether it's righting novels, writing lyrics, writings scripts, or even just writing an essay for school! So many different fonts, formats, sizes of lettering, it has everything you need! You can save endless amounts of documents, and you can name them so you don't lose them. This app is perfect!!!!
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Accessible anywhere
Before knowing about Goggle Docs I would use word, a coworker who was also in school showed me how to access it on my phone if I’m on the go, or just sitting at my desk. It was much more enjoyable and easy to use when needing to jump back on at any time. I have told others in my class about google docs, it just took a while for me to actually access all my emails that I can link to . It saved me time logging into a computer, when I’m already looking at my phone. It’s better than word. Also when having errors it allows you to see a correction or just add a comment on the side so you can either fix or re word later. I really like that I can pull it up on my phone and allow a friend to read from my laptop for a review on some thing I’ve missed while working and writing. The application saved me a lot of time. Thank you! I think if there were step for first timers also once you open a google account explain the many options you can do with the application!!! -
For adding - Film Script features * Screenplay, AV, Stageplay, Audio Play, and Comic formats. * all the tools you need to bring your scripts to camera: scriptwriting, breakdown, storyboarding, scheduling, budgeting, and cast and crew reports. This can be very rewarding for every filmmaker. Please add script writing feature on next update It is very necessary. It is expected that more facilities will be provided by the "Docs" team than the facilities provided in the "Celtx Studio" application.
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Fantastic with some suggestions
I love the way docs works because it saves your data constantly and it doesn’t glitch on you and it provides you with so many ways to type notes for school, writing, and much more. I do have some suggestions to make the work flow for taking notes easier though. When it comes to fonts, there are specific ones I like to use for notes, but it becomes a pain to have to go back and switch it to the font you like instead of the default Ariel. The same goes for the headings and other text variations. They default to Ariel instead of the font that you were using before hand. Another suggestion I have is to make a keyboard short cut for the horizontal line. That would make dividing sections of writing way easier. The last suggestion I have is to also make a key board short cut for the list option styles. For example, I don’t like using the default dot style for the list. I like using the star one because it makes the list more interesting to look at. So instead of defaulting to the dot style it could default to the style of list that you were using before hand. For example, I would be using the star style of list and then I would section that list off with a horizontal line and then begin to start a new list that would then default to the star style. In general, maybe you guys could make google docs more customizable or at least have let it have the option to be more customizable with custom keyboard commands for different things. -
I ❤️ Google Docs but...
Well, honestly, Google Docs is AMAZING! I love all the features and it just has this very nice atmosphere and it’s just...AWESOME!!! But there is just ONE little problem. You see, before I had an iPhone, I had an LG phone. Specifically, the LG Fortune. And when I had that phone, you could put emojis in the text. But NOW I can’t even add an emoji! I bet you’re thinking this is useless, but what about when I’m writing a story or something? Like for example, I add a texting part to my story. Then, I do it like someone adds an emoji to their text. It WOULDN’T appear! It kinda get’s me a little disappointed because it ruins the whole book. I don’t care if whoever’s reading this thinks I’m dumb or stupid, but hey! I’m saying MY opinion! Isn’t that what a review is for? To share your opinion about a thing (in this case, an app)? Anyway, I just think that Google Inc. should consider this and improve it or fix it. But overall, Google Docs is an extraordinary app that I recommend to everyone. 😄 -
This app best suites me, I've always have lots of documents coming on my gmail account eg: school works. And then, this app helped me a lot. You can do lots of different kind of things inside the app. It's complete, simple and useful. It's like the MOBILE version of MS word. So much nothing to say! Good work.
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Better for Personal Use
I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell. -
I love this app. I do have a few issues that keep me from putting five stars. I have a doc that im working in for a book and it takes FOREVER to load all the pages, no type of format saves when I copy and paste into and from the app and it deletes my things sometimes. My book is over 330 pages and I don't want to start over if the app decides to bug out. Edit: Still have a problem with loading but it goes a but faster now. If there's anything that will help, maybe a way to load pages faster.
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Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly. -
It's been good so far. But after updating it I can't open it. An error occurred pops up anytime I try opening a document or try to add a new document. And before this problem, I made some of my documents available offline but I'd have to turn on my data before I can have access them. Kindly work on this for me cos I really like this app
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Great, except...
Like most people of Generation Z, the later years of my education (8th grade-present) have greatly benefited from using Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Docs’s amazing accessibility, collaboration tools, storage, and auto-save have always been what’s made it better than competing office tools. The app itself is great, and once you get the hand of using it on a hand held device, it makes working from almost anywhere possible. I’ve found myself using these Google applications for more than just essays and presentations now a days, as I begin to need work resumés and finance budgets. So really, Docs (and other Google applications) are great! Except, I’ve encountered an issue when using this Docs app. Now, this could be because of several reasons, however, I’ve found that after prolonged used, when typing, the keyboard begins to lag a bunch, making working on documents so frustrating. At first I thought that the keyboard could be lagging because my iPad might’ve over heated? But, the keyboard has lagged even when the iPad doesn’t feel warm. I’m not sure if internet connection might have something to do with it, but my Wifi is pretty strong, and I rarely encounter issues with it. That’s my only complaint, but other than that I really do love the app. -
Love Google docs
I absolutely love google docs, especially since I’m in college and it saves your work automatically when your up at 2:00am trying to finish an essay that is due that same day and you fall asleep. There probably is away to do this, but if not I wish there would be away to categorize documents into different folders for different projects or classes and or poor year. I think this would be very helpful for me since one day I would love to show my kids that hard work does pay off. The slide shows are excellent and great for presenting history projects to make them at least semi fun and very easy to use once you learn to switch over from PowerPoint... but the basic outline I personally feel is similar yet differently. The docs were it is like Microsoft Word is very identical just a few extra perks of not having to save, having all of your work in one place, and very easy usage. The only reason for a 4 star was the fact is that if it doesn’t have the filing system “ I would be surprised if it didn’t” again probably haven’t figured it out, but have been using this program since 2015 at-least so I think I would have found it, but things fly over everybody's head sometimes “am I right or am I right?” -
Folders, please!
I am a young writer and I use Google Docs for school and writing. I have many documents that are currently organized by last modified. This means that I have stories that I wrote, stories that my friends are writing that I get to edit, and rubrics, lists, and assignments that my teachers created for distance learning all jumbled together. As you can imagine, there is no rhyme or reason to this mess and I can never find what I need. This is annoying to me. I am trying to get myself together and be more organized, but this is hard when there is no visible means of organization. I want to keep my books separate from my gajillions of distance learning assignments, and that’s not possible. This is a suggestion, not for the app, but for Google Docs in general. My teacher told me about Drive folders, but they were difficult to use and they did not separate my work from my schoolwork, as I had intended. I’m thinking maybe when you go into Docs, instead of seeing all your stuff, you see all your folders. Then you click on a folder and it shows you all the documents inside that folder. This would make using Google Docs so much easier. Please add folders; it would make life SO MUCH EASIER!!! -
Great for writing, but hard to insert equations
Google’s Docs is fantastic! It is nice to have your document constantly backed up without hassle. I have grown to prefer using this app over Microsoft’s Word and Apple’s Pages. I use this app mostly on an iPad and keyboard. One thing that stand out for google docs over the other word processing apps is its ease to format using keyboard shortcuts. In iOS this is HUGE!!! The ability to use keyboard shortcuts drastically improves productivity when working in a touch based operating system! With that being said, I cannot do all my work on this app. I can type up most of my documents using this app, but I need to switch to a different device to do some finishing touches before publishing my documents. For example, it would be nice to change a documents margin’s while using this app. It also would be nice to insert equations using this app. As it stands, those features remain on the web based version of docs and not on the iOS version. That being said, google docs is my go to app for any word processing on an iOS device. It is clear the team at google have put a lot of work into developing this app, perhaps even more than its competitors. -
Good for the most part
Google docs is a fantastic website to use to get work done. It auto saves, allows collaboration, and has so many other features. The app, however, lags so much when typing that you can type a sentence or phrase and reasonably expect to wait another 10+ seconds before it finishes typing. And this is on a doc with only one person on it. Imagine the frustration when multiple people are on it! And if you think it’s done typing and go to fix an error earlier in the sentence, it will continue typing in the middle of the sentence (even though you finished typing several seconds prior). Another problem with it is the inability to copy and paste MLA citations in it. If I’m working on an essay and need to make a bibliography, I’ll copy the formatted citation from an online citation maker, paste it into google docs, then have to manually readjust the spacing to make it correct. While you can just paste it into Word and go, you can’t with google docs, which is frustrating, especially when you’ve got 15 sources to format manually. (This is a problem with the website on a computer, too.) -
Hi, this app is a very good application for essays, story writing, basically any type of writing. It works very well. I would like to make a suggestion though and that is for dark mode/theme. I usually type at night and the white screen gives me migraines from writing in it. I think that I would use this app a lot more if there was a dark mode/theme. But overall a good app.
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As with so many Google products, Docs worked well and integrated seemlessly with other products- until the inevitable glitch shows up. Usually the glitch is annoying, long-standing and leaves users scratching our heads for the absurdity of it. The fact that there's NO SIMPLE MARGIN TOOL in this app makes me want to throw up my hands, yet I just can't bear to move many years of work to another platform. And so we carry on.
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Let me be clear: I love docs. Being able to collaborate on works and leaving comments in real time is brilliant. I wrote and published a novel with docs. It is garbage on phones or tablets. Once you get over/around 100 pages, it is laggy, glitchy, and you have to fight the document itself to work on it. Just got a brand new tablet and thought it just didn't work well on my old one. Nope, it's docs itself. Poorly optimized for anything but a real computer.
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Google did me wrong at the worst possible moment
You know how we all rely on google for turning in class assignments? Well... IT DID ME WRONG AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT!!! I take AP World History and had something due today and couldn’t get on it until this weekend but this week it was updated for a big fix that has going on for weeks now that is still going on!!! The app crashes at random times whether it’s long or short periods of time, and this week it’s gotten worse to the point I can’t even see my cursor when I type on my phone anymore and whenever I try to exit out of the page to refresh, I suddenly see two icons of my own account that was recently on the doc and and still see the cursor I recently used on my doc. I was copying and pasting my work from one box onto another but suddenly no matter how many times I double tapped on my screen, I couldn’t paste, forcing me to restart my phone and try again and once I got back on my doc, I realized I never pasted my paragraph back on the doc and now my work is lost until I can get on a computer tomorrow and search my version history and revive my lost work!! Sad to say, google can’t be relied on for everything especially when it’s been having a problem that gone unnoticed and unsolved for over 2 months now. -
Meh.
The only reason I use Google Docs over programs like Pages and Word is that my school system uses it and I have unlimited storage for Google Docs in my drive (which by the way is great). But the app is just sooooo s l o w. I don’t know if this is an issue with my iPad (which has plenty of performance issues itself) or with the app, but it’s nearly unusable for me. When I use my bluetooth keyboard with it the text is very laggy (or with the onscreen keyboard for that matter) and text editing is an iOS 12-style nightmare. You can’t drag your finger over text to select it like in iOS 13, you have to tap on the cursor, select “Select,” and then drag over all the text you want to select (which is very slow and laggy). I would really appreciate a couple of features, like viewing the same app in multiple spaces in iPadOS (because I find myself needing to look at multiple docs at once more and more these days) or at least some kind of similar system and a better Explore feature like on desktop. And as several other people have mentioned the text correction is nowhere near perfect. It always marks weird things as grammatically incorrect that are perfectly fine. Google please please please please listen and thanks for reading -
Google Docs is OK but painful on iPad
I think if I used an external keyboard it might be better, but formatting and getting spreadsheets to function like excel is really not an option. I find that trying to select text to cut and paste or copy or for formatting font size or color is very frustrating. You have to grab and roll your finger just right or you select too much. Also, when backspacing, use caution. I couldn't stop it from deleting far more than i wanted. Make sure you select what you want to delete instead of relying on bkspc to stop when you want it to. I am happy I found a way to do my budget on my iPad since my laptop is tedious to start up just to work on my finances, but i do wish it wasn't so painful to toggle into edit mode. Google should talk to more end users, and I am also not a fan of the company being that I have a 35 yr Career in Technology and I am FEMALE...so I am sure they will wake up and come into the 21st century soon with their treatment of women, and get more women managing projects and holding positions of power. Their tolerance for misogyny is incredibly sickening. I wish someone from a more progressive company would invent a better alternative since I don't trust or like Google. -
Google Docs works okay, but I've seen far too many technical problems to give it five stars, or even four stars. First of all, sometimes when I copy and paste an image, it doesn't show up. Also, adjusting margins doesn't always work properly. Among other smaller problems. If these things are fixed I might rate five stars, but they are super frustrating!
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Spellcheck...Really?
Don’t bother using Doc’s spellcheck, as it is almost as good as having a third grader edit your paper. Sometimes it catches a few mistakes, but it doesn’t catch but a small fraction of what Microsoft Word finds (and will fix automatically, or at least notify you immediately that something is jacked up). Also, sometimes it seems not to work at all. I’m not sure if it’s a “lagging” issue, a glitch, like one person mentioned in a previous post, or otherwise. I also dislike the ability to format, as all features (in general) seem harder to use and are more problematic than Word. Am I biased because I used Word for a decade or so before Docs arrived on the scene? Probably, but I still think there are many fixes needed before this is a reliable and user friendly platform. I’ve spoken to people who believe several of my gripes are due to a connectivity problem, as we use Docs in my school to write essays etc., but I don’t know...it seems pretty frequent and we have issues often enough for me to complain to random strangers on this platform. Sooo, General Google, get on this please.
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Google Docs has become a pure nightmare! Before, it was next to impossible to get docs to save a file on my device. Had to save it to the cloud, then download it to my divice. I used to be able to do this with CX File Explorer. But now the files won't transfer. Downloading them via Google Drive results in a PDF file (that Docs won't open). Looks like I'm going to have to cut and paste all my files from the cloud to my device, then remove Docs, and find another cloud for storage.
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That awful floating menu is driving me mad. Every htime I try to do something it pops up although all it does is get in my way. Can you PLEASE HELP fasten it down somewhere? Use 6" nails or superglue if you have to, or but keep it out of my way. Can you also add Select in place of Comments, please which could go into a separate menu. I don't know what the new upgrade was intended to do, since the same old problems still persist. Instability is getting worse, and the app is practically unusable.
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Attention Google, this really needs to be addressed. For some reason, when ever I try to stop downloading Google docs, it keeps redownloading itself. I am trying to recover my apps, but Google docs is constantly pending, so I can't. Again, even when I attempt to stop it from downloading, it somehow starts redownloading itself again, no matter what I try. Please fix this so I can recover my other apps.
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It seems that the text selection-freezing issue is still prevalent. Selecting text can take up to 10 min or more just because the app keeps on becoming frozen while selecting significant amounts of text. Edit: I just updated to the latest version and I think it freezes EVEN more! I can't hardly even select three paragraphs without the app freezing until I close it. SUPER frustrating. Galaxy S8+ with Android 9, never had this problem with any other app. None of the updates ever fix it.
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I added some information in one of my Google docs file on mobile phone everyday. On Jan 13 I opened this file and discovered that the information (text) that was added last days (10-12 Jan 2021) had been lost. I can't find it despite I've had sync switched on. I tried opening the file in my Google Drive on PC but the result is the same. Also sometimes I fail to open my files in offline mode despite they are marked to be available offline
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For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t. -
I don't like the available offline symbol. I manually set each document to not be available offline, just to get rid of the symbol. This app does not give me the option to encrypt my data with my own personal password. Some Google employees are able to read my documents. I need an encryption option which is similar to the encryption option which Chrome offers for saved passwords. I want to use an encryption password which cannot be reset by Google.
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Deletes data
I use google docs to type up reports, nearly everyday. I type my notes on a variety of apple devices, and usually it works well enough. But occasionally it will pull up an old version of the document, sometimes a few weeks old, and it’ll delete all the previous weeks worth of notes I’ve written. Today I typed up my daily note on my ipad, all my notes were on there (I had used a MacBook Air earlier that week with no problem either). Afterwards I went onto an iPad mini to add to my note and it pulled up a version from over 2 weeks prior, showing none of my notes that I had recently written. I quickly pulled out my phone and checked the doc and it was the exact same on there, both completely sync’d up. I tried to check the history of the notes to see if I could see my deleted notes, but it didn’t have anything recent to show. The only was I was able to save my doc was by turning on airplane mode on my iPad and then opening the doc so that it wouldn’t update, and then turning the WiFi back on so it could make the others sync to it. This is extremely worrisome to use a service that is supposed to sync your notes across devices, but may actually delete all your data.
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I added some information in one of my Google docs file on mobile phone everyday. On Jan 13 I opened this file and discovered that the information (text) that was added last days (10-12 Jan 2021) had been lost. I can't find it despite I've had sync switched on. I tried opening the file in my Google Drive on PC but the result is the same. Also sometimes I fail to open my files in offline mode despite they are marked to be available offline
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For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t.
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Google Docs has become a pure nightmare! Before, it was next to impossible to get docs to save a file on my device. Had to save it to the cloud, then download it to my divice. I used to be able to do this with CX File Explorer. But now the files won't transfer. Downloading them via Google Drive results in a PDF file (that Docs won't open). Looks like I'm going to have to cut and paste all my files from the cloud to my device, then remove Docs, and find another cloud for storage.
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That awful floating menu is driving me mad. Every htime I try to do something it pops up although all it does is get in my way. Can you PLEASE HELP fasten it down somewhere? Use 6" nails or superglue if you have to, or but keep it out of my way. Can you also add Select in place of Comments, please which could go into a separate menu. I don't know what the new upgrade was intended to do, since the same old problems still persist. Instability is getting worse, and the app is practically unusable.
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Attention Google, this really needs to be addressed. For some reason, when ever I try to stop downloading Google docs, it keeps redownloading itself. I am trying to recover my apps, but Google docs is constantly pending, so I can't. Again, even when I attempt to stop it from downloading, it somehow starts redownloading itself again, no matter what I try. Please fix this so I can recover my other apps.
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It seems that the text selection-freezing issue is still prevalent. Selecting text can take up to 10 min or more just because the app keeps on becoming frozen while selecting significant amounts of text. Edit: I just updated to the latest version and I think it freezes EVEN more! I can't hardly even select three paragraphs without the app freezing until I close it. SUPER frustrating. Galaxy S8+ with Android 9, never had this problem with any other app. None of the updates ever fix it.
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I don't like the available offline symbol. I manually set each document to not be available offline, just to get rid of the symbol. This app does not give me the option to encrypt my data with my own personal password. Some Google employees are able to read my documents. I need an encryption option which is similar to the encryption option which Chrome offers for saved passwords. I want to use an encryption password which cannot be reset by Google.
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Deletes data
I use google docs to type up reports, nearly everyday. I type my notes on a variety of apple devices, and usually it works well enough. But occasionally it will pull up an old version of the document, sometimes a few weeks old, and it’ll delete all the previous weeks worth of notes I’ve written. Today I typed up my daily note on my ipad, all my notes were on there (I had used a MacBook Air earlier that week with no problem either). Afterwards I went onto an iPad mini to add to my note and it pulled up a version from over 2 weeks prior, showing none of my notes that I had recently written. I quickly pulled out my phone and checked the doc and it was the exact same on there, both completely sync’d up. I tried to check the history of the notes to see if I could see my deleted notes, but it didn’t have anything recent to show. The only was I was able to save my doc was by turning on airplane mode on my iPad and then opening the doc so that it wouldn’t update, and then turning the WiFi back on so it could make the others sync to it. This is extremely worrisome to use a service that is supposed to sync your notes across devices, but may actually delete all your data.
- Take your documents on the go when you create new or edit exiting files that can be shared to collaborators
- No matter where you are you can access your documents offline
- Simple to use interface makes it easy to add and respond to comments, research topics with Explore, and turn into Word documents
Reviewed by Chris on November 15, 2018
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