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Originally Posted by Graham
Well that's a different issue from the one you raised above where you asked whether ChromeDocs (which I took to mean Google Docs) could be used with DropBox.
Anyone who must maintain full compatibility with legacy Office format documents will, of course, still need acccess to a Windows machine. That's one of the reasons why none of us are recommending a ChromeOS device yet as your primary machine.
The options you currently have with Office format documents are to use Microsoft's Office365 web versions of the applications - which themselves don't give all the functionality of the desktop versions - or to open with a compatible third party solution.
Google's own solution is QuickOffice which it is in the process of baking into ChromeOS, but this is undoubtedly poor at preserving formatting, etc., at the moment. Definitely a work in progress.
However, the tools work reasonably well if you just need to read a legacy document (and can cope with some formatting glitches). It's for editing that you need to switch back to Windows.
Or move the document over to the Google format at that point, tidy up, and then you're fine for future editing.
Where I do need to return to Windows is for complex Excel sheets and applications that I'm mandated to run through work. I remote desktop into my old Windows netbook for this (as it's much quieter than my Windows desktop).
But for leisure, and a great deal of my work, I use my ChromeOS devices. The Chromebox coupled with the 23" monitor is a pleasure to use, and I genuinely do prefer using it now to my Windows i7 desktop.
Graham
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Guess I didn't explain it properly. I have a ton of Office documents in Dropbox and it would be so convenient if I could open and edit them in Chrome, hence GoogleDocs, save them back to Dropbox and then distribute them as needed to clients that use Office.