On the flip side, GSuite is great if it’s all you know. Kids doing the Google thing through school come out with that environment being the one they are familiar with. They hit the ground running when they reach the workforce, even if they are put into Microsoft Office. For some reason, it’s loads easier to teach people to go from Google > Microsoft than the other way around.
Your experience matches what I’ve seen with clients who go down the Google path. Lots of people find it painful - usually older employees who have been using Office apps since before the ribbon (Office 2003), when keyboard shortcuts were more heavily used.
I personally love Sheets for most tasks. I hate it as soon as we get to charts and advanced stuff, though. There’s no getting around the fact that Microsoft has the edge (heh) on things like macros and charts.
Ah that makes sense! Personally been using PC since I was a kid in the late 90s, and Dad hated anything Apple so we never had a Mac or anything, just Microsoft. When I hit the workforce in 2011 I was miles ahead of my peers with using shortcuts.
Going MS to GS is very painful. Had to print out a little sheet with the common shortcuts. And lookup the formulas for Sheets. I did some reporting and never had the time to learn how to automate it (had to generate report between calls). Whereas if I was using MS, they would have had their reports waaaayyyyy quicker.
Ah well, water under the bridge. I do enjoy that fact that kids learning on GS are finding MS easier to grasp. But I definitely do not recommend going the other way haha
On the flip side, GSuite is great if it’s all you know. Kids doing the Google thing through school come out with that environment being the one they are familiar with. They hit the ground running when they reach the workforce, even if they are put into Microsoft Office. For some reason, it’s loads easier to teach people to go from Google > Microsoft than the other way around.
Your experience matches what I’ve seen with clients who go down the Google path. Lots of people find it painful - usually older employees who have been using Office apps since before the ribbon (Office 2003), when keyboard shortcuts were more heavily used.
I personally love Sheets for most tasks. I hate it as soon as we get to charts and advanced stuff, though. There’s no getting around the fact that Microsoft has the edge (heh) on things like macros and charts.
Ah that makes sense! Personally been using PC since I was a kid in the late 90s, and Dad hated anything Apple so we never had a Mac or anything, just Microsoft. When I hit the workforce in 2011 I was miles ahead of my peers with using shortcuts.
Going MS to GS is very painful. Had to print out a little sheet with the common shortcuts. And lookup the formulas for Sheets. I did some reporting and never had the time to learn how to automate it (had to generate report between calls). Whereas if I was using MS, they would have had their reports waaaayyyyy quicker.
Ah well, water under the bridge. I do enjoy that fact that kids learning on GS are finding MS easier to grasp. But I definitely do not recommend going the other way haha