Michal Ždanský This week, Google released the long-awaited Slides app, the remaining editor in the Google Docs suite. It's been a few months since Google decided to separate the editors of its proprietary office suite from the Google Drive app. While Docs and Sheets were released simultaneously, Slides for editing and creating presentations had to wait.
The application, like the other two editors, will enable collaborative editing of presentations within Google Drive, and while joint editing can be done online, editing your own presentations does not require an Internet connection, as was the case with editors in the unified Google Drive application. Of course, the application is exclusively connected to Google Drive and takes all files from it. All created presentations are automatically saved to Disk. What's new is the ability to edit Microsoft Office files natively, or those with the PPT or PPTX extension.
By the way, the updated Docs and Sheets also got the editing options for Office documents. Google achieved this by integrating QuickOffice. He bought this app with the entire Google team last year for this very purpose. At first it offered QuickOffice for free to Google Apps users, later to all users, but in the end it was completely withdrawn from the App Store and its functionality, i.e. editing Office documents, was incorporated into its editors, which otherwise work with Google's proprietary format.
Editing Office documents works surprisingly well, for example, Docs had no problem working with a longer film script and didn't clutter text formatted with tabs and indents. While text editing was seamless, I soon ran into the application's limits of only containing basic functions. For example, it is not possible to change the layout of the document, work with tabs and others. For full-fledged work with Office documents, Office from Microsoft (requires an Office 365 subscription) or iWork from Apple remain the best options. For easier editing of documents, however, Office support is a welcome novelty.
