Microsoft Word Online (First impression) compared to Google Word

Disclaimer: I typically prefer Google's solutions so my opinion may be biased but I try not to be. I have also been using Google Word for a good period of time, but have only used MS Word Online in the last couple days.

Overall, both solutions meet the basic needs for editing a word document.

So far, Google Word is by far more superior to MS Word Online. MS Word Online is also far behind the capabilities available in MS Office Word so there may be hope in the future of MS Word Online.

As of the time of this post, there are several things lacking in MS Word Online that is available on Google Word both of which are free as long as you have a login. Here is the list of things missing:

• Revision history
• Keyboard input (useful for international languages)
• Offline viewing (personally, I never used this in Google)
• Table of Contents (this was a huge surprise)

Pros:

• Similar layout to MS Office Word*
• 1-click styles (I use this all the time, Google word requires 2 clicks**)

Cons:

• Errors creating/loading word document***

* I know most people do not like the MS Office Word ribbon style, but I have really adapted to the ribbon and find it much more effective. I will admit that there is quite a relearning curve.

** There is a keyboard shortcut for Google word, but ctrl+alt+# is not a simple combination. 

*** This may have been temporary.

Other Notes:

I used Google Chrome for both. This may or may not have a difference to the experience of MS Word Online. I do not plan to test this in IE, maybe Firefox if only Chrome is not available.

Hyperlink in Gridview

There is no way to decode the hyperlink with gridview when autogeneratecolumns is set true. BoundField has a property HtmlEncode that can be toggled to false to allow hyperlinks.

This was needed for blogs and changelogs but not for defect resolutions due to wanting to deploy the actual html. Not sure what happens if I need to include a link and actual html.

Buggish: Visual Studio 2013 with Azure - Waiting Internal Operation and Checkin

Waiting Internal Operation

Microsoft Visual Studio is waiting for an internal operation to complete. If you regularly encounter this delay during normal usage, please report this problem to Microsoft.

I don't know why I get this sometimes, but is quite frustrating to wait for several minutes for this to go away. I have not figured what causes this. My only guess at this point is it may be due to me rebuilding the solution too frequently in a short period of time although this is not always the case.

Check In

Check in fails if I have a sql query open that was not saved. I do not want it saved since I only use it to check certain queries and view data information. If I select not to save, the check in will cancel. The only way around this is to close the window or save. What makes it odd is that the count with the number of files does not change so the process is odd to be dependent on a file that is not even part of the project or check in count.