You can also integrate images directly from Google Drive, Google's cloud storage. In Google Docs you can insert images via upload or online search. I looked into it, and it doesn't appear to be possible to insert images directly from Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage. In Word Online, you can insert images into a document in two ways: by uploading from a device such as a notebook, or by searching online.

Instead, I've decided to limit myself to these twelve functions where I found significant differences between the tools. Of course it would be far too tedious to list every single function and search for nuanced, detailed differences between them. In these sorts of basic functions, Word Online and Docs work equally well. In many areas - for example, when simply formatting text, bulleted lists, headers and footers, etc. In the following article I'll compare Word Online (not the version of Word which is installed locally) with Google Docs. Google's office apps, on the other hand, were developed for the cloud from the outset and have no local counterparts. Depending on your Office 365 subscription, you can either use the online tools exclusively or the online tools along with the locally installed apps. Microsoft Office is known above all for its locally installed applications such as Word and Excel, and only a few years ago it ventured into the cloud with online versions.

Microsoft Word Online and Google Docs are browser-based word processing apps, each part of larger office suites: Word Online is a Microsoft Office 365 module and Docs is a Google G Suite app.

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