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You only need a free Microsoft account to use them. has slightly limited versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that work exclusively online, so you'll need to have an Internet connection to use those apps.

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Now, that's what you'll pay for the full version of Office, but Microsoft also has free tools with and the Office mobile apps.

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Alternatively, you can purchase a one-time license of Office for $139.99. You'll either need a subscription to Office 365, which starts at $6.99 per month, or $69.99 per year and gets you Office 2016, 1TB of cloud storage in OneDrive and other tools. The full version of Office is going to cost you. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides don't have as many features as Office, but for many people they have enough to get the job done. Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNETДЇor students, teachers, workers or anyone who just needs to write, edit, build spreadsheets and create presentations, it's hard to beat Google Docs' free tools. Real-time typing helps you see what others are adding to your documents. The whole process feels like more work and more steps than sharing a file created in Google Docs. You can then open the file in the desktop versions of Word, Excel or PowerPoint for more advanced editing tools. However, clicking the link opens, Microsoft's free site with pared-down versions of the Office apps where you can make most edits.

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Microsoft designed it that way to make sharing easier, without requiring that you download the file before you open it. In my tests, sharing a file send an email to recipient, with a link to that file, instead of sharing an attachment. Type in an email address and decide if that person can only view the file or edit it, and click share to send them a link to the file. With Office 2016, you can share files directly from the new Share menu in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft has worked hard to make sharing much more seamless in Office 2016, but unfortunately, it still doesn't feel as easy as sharing in Google Docs.

That gives Google the upper hand here - at least for the time being. Google Docs has had this same feature for several years now, and what makes it better is that it works in Google's presentation app Slides and in Sheets, the spreadsheet app. Multiple people can work at once, but this feature is only available in Word. This works well, and as long as every person editing has a stable Internet connection, you'll see changes and additions almost immediately. Each person is shown as a colored text cursor with their name that moves as they type. Office 2016 introduces real-time typing to Word, where two or more people can work on a document at once, and you can see what everyone is typing. Three things Google Docs does better Real-time collaboration

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If your work requires a full range of features and offline editing, it's still very hard to beat Office. Google has improved Docs over the years, adding new features and making it work better, it still pales in comparison to what Office has been able to do for the last decade. Google Docs can work offline, but you'll need to have opened your file before you go off the grid. Not to mention, Office was designed to work both online and off, so you can do your work no matter where you go. And for many people, Excel is the gold standard program for crunching large amounts of data. That's because Word, Excel and PowerPoint are packed with advanced features, like mail merge, detailed charts and animated slides that are missing or limited with other programs. Microsoft Office has long been the standard for those who use word processors, spreadsheet tools and presentation builders at work. It's essentially a bookmark for your documents, and it's a fantastic tool for anyone working on a lengthy project over several days or weeks.