You may now feel free to post that my dislike of these applications betrays some deep seated incompetence or personality flaw on my part, tx.

Christ no. Can't your afford an iPhone and cloud storage?

office365 family for me

I find them quite handy tbh. Not paying for office. I also use libre Office which is a tolerable alternative to MS Office. I'm a big fan of open source software. 

it's 79 quid a year, for five people each getting 1tb of storage. why fook about with shitter versions

I always try, where possible ,to use the software of Gates,the great liberator, rather than Jobs expensive ecosystem

Agree Google Docs is shite

All the time. I work on a lot of shared docs and the collaboration/versioning/sharing side of it is significantly better than MS Office. 

Used to switch back to MS regularly for certain features but find I have to do that very rarely now. 

It's genuinely terrible. My PT tries to get me to use it to track progress etc I just refuse amd get her to take my data from MyFitnessPal 

"not paying for office"

r u actually serious?

I work locally. If I want to share a document I email it to the relevant person.

I used to do that but once you get weaned on to the shared doc stuff it’s fantastic.

I can right-click on a cell in Sheets and bring up a history of every value ever entered into that cell, and exactly who entered it. 

That’s way more useful to me 90% of the time than the occasional super-advanced feature of Office that isn’t in Docs. 

Only reason I use it is my work is a start up.... simple way to get started.

I love google sheets!

It is standard software suite at work. I LOVE the shared doc features and wouldn’t go back to anything else now. But I haven’t been trained properly on it so have no idea how to properly work it and have to pull down the docs to MS Suite if I want to do any actual work. This is how getting old starts….