It's the little things...
I use it every day and really haven’t had slowness issues, even when running via Parallels on the Mac side. Of course, typically my docs are <100 pages and light on images.
I have seen undo history go away when edits collide with multiple users, but that’s really the only way it could work. And you can still view old versions of the doc if you need to retrieve/restore something.
MS Word as a whole is definitely very far from flawless, but it’s still better than the alternatives I’ve seen, and it’s extremely entrenched. That’s why it’s hard to see “git for office docs”succeeding.
~250 pages, ~100 images, not something I expect a modern computer to struggle with. We used the web version on Linux sometimes, but I think it also happened when we didn't.
>I have seen undo history go away when edits collide with multiple users, but that’s really the only way it could work. And you can still view old versions of the doc if you need to retrieve/restore something.
The other way is like git does it, manual merging and conflict resolving. I don't think there's a way around that once you work with enough people together on a file.
Personally for the kinds of documents I work on, I'd rather risk losing my undo history than have to deal with manually merging changes from multiple users.
Plus, without real-time concurrent editing, the changes are much more likely to conflict.
While some of the ideas are great, the overall experience was pretty bad. Leaving autosave on often slowed down Word to an unworkable pace and after a few other issues (I'm not exactly sure what, wasn't involved) we just made sure only one person at a time works on the document.
Some other annoying small issues I experienced: when working together sometimes your undo history is gone. I guess that's because someone else edited too and correctly undoing something someone else edited in between is not simple. IMO it's impossible and any system doing merges automatically will fall apart at some point.
Track edits cannot track deleting rows of a table
Wed based word works actually pretty fine, but it misses random features. Adding captions seems not to be supported.