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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by hcurtiss on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:19PM (#32858590)
Office on the web actually does this really well now. The desktop app is a little more glitchy, but Google doesn't even have one of those. I really like tracked changes in Word on the web. Microsoft has come a real long way in the last three years.
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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by 8jy89hui on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:09PM (#32859088)
Does this include products like Word Online? Because that product is awful.

The visual bugs are annoying and the document-syncing with multiple editing people feels like 2005. As of last year, it couldn't even render a .docx file properly. It tried to render input fields as images. LibreOffice Writer opened the doc better than /Word/ Online.

I am a student who has access to office online and have tried to encourage my peers to use it for group projects so that we don't have to use Google. However after repeatedly having to make up excuses for their neglected product, I have given up and just request anonymous editing links for Google Docs.

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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by rvba on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:10AM (#32863888)
Completely different experience for me. The desktop app is solid (although latest patches made it unstable + the visual change is just not good), but the collaboration tools are horrible to use.

You dont know where files are saved, you cannot connect a file to a file, lots of options seem to be disabled (e.g. collaborative Excel on Teams).

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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by matwood on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:46AM (#32865381)
> Office on the web actually does this really well now.

Did you miss an /s? I just tried using this again and it's slow and buggy. Office has a lot of advantages, but collaborative document editing is not one of them.

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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by behnamoh on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:57PM (#32861880)
I won't touch any web app because I'm perfectly fine using my Vimium shortcuts that I don't need them to interfere with a web app that could have been just a native app...
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