Google Docs is great for some purposes. If you just want to get information down in a basic structured manner for sharing and collaborating on, it's perfectly adequate. I use it frequently for internal material.
But when you care about presentation - about making documents which can be printed or rendered to PDF and look good, Google Docs plainly sucks. It's just the wrong tool for the job when presentation counts for something.
Even just considered as a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Docs is primitive compared to some js components out there. Working with tables is a joke in Docs, and this is just one glaring deficiency of many.
if the competition is between Google Docs and MS Word, I don't think you can really appeal to the appearance of the final document as a deciding factor. They both suck.
Surely you jest. Word can be coerced into making great print documents. Not as good as applications focused on print, sure, but orders of magnitude better than gdocs.
But when you care about presentation - about making documents which can be printed or rendered to PDF and look good, Google Docs plainly sucks. It's just the wrong tool for the job when presentation counts for something.
Even just considered as a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Docs is primitive compared to some js components out there. Working with tables is a joke in Docs, and this is just one glaring deficiency of many.