No one will confuse Google Docs with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel; Google Docs has nowhere near the sophisticated capabilities of Office, but it does the basic job well -- if you have a live Internet connection. A common use of Google Docs is for collaborative document work, such as a group idea list or commenting on a draft, where being in the cloud and accessible from almost any browser make remote teamwork easy.
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