What bugs me about Google Docs

April 22, 2008 in peeves, technology with 2 Comments

I’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately.  It’s starting to grate on me a little.

If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version.  Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.

You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.

Don’t get me started on tables.  They’re even worse.

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2 Responses to “What bugs me about Google Docs”

  1. Joe Donahue April 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm #

    You know what I love about Google Docs? That you actually have the *opportunity* to lift up the hood and hack away at the HTML.

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  2. wvpv April 22, 2008 at 2:53 pm #

    Why should I have to hack away at HTML in such a “basic” thing as a document editor?

    It’s forcing me to dumb down my documents!

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