{"id":846,"date":"2011-02-20T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T22:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=846"},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:22:17","slug":"why-dump-microsoft-office-and-switch-to-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/why-dump-microsoft-office-and-switch-to-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dump Microsoft Office and Switch to Google Docs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Google Docs supports MANY file types:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(far more than just .doc, xls and pdf &#8212; seriously, take a look below&#8230; you&#8217;ll be surprised.  I sure was)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because Google Docs is <strong>FREE<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li>No need to deal with conflicting file types: platform\/version, etc etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Your files will always be securely available online (to you and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=86152\">others you authorize<\/a> to share)<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll always have the latest and greatest versions- no need for upgrading ever again!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more Read More About Getting Away from Microsoft Products and Switching to Google --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a look at the additional file formats they&#8217;ve just added: <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(pasted from the GMail Blog)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html\">https:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 \/ 2010 (.PPTX)<\/li>\n<li>Apple Pages (.PAGES)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Illustrator (.AI)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)<\/li>\n<li>Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)<\/li>\n<li>Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)<\/li>\n<li>PostScript (.EPS, .PS)<\/li>\n<li>TrueType (.TTF)<\/li>\n<li>XML Paper Specification (.XPS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full article found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html\">https:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Google Docs in Plain English<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(authored by Google)<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe class=\"lazyload\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27480%27%20height%3D%27390%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20480%20390%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27480%27%20height%3D%27390%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRqUE6IHTEA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>To sign up for Google Docs for FREE:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\">https:\/\/docs.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Docs supports MANY file types: (far more than just&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/why-dump-microsoft-office-and-switch-to-google-docs\/\">Continue Reading<span> Why Dump Microsoft Office and Switch to Google Docs?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,70],"tags":[230,229,228,126,127,125],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-2","category-web-tips-and-tricks","tag-difference-between-google-docs-and-microsoft-office","tag-google-docs-vs-microsoft-office","tag-google-docs-vs-office","tag-micrsoft-office-vs-google-docs","tag-using-google-docs-instead-of-microsoft-office","tag-why-dump-microsoft-office-switch-to-google-docs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}