When I was working at the TSX, I had to start using Google Docs for some documentation, and it drove me crazy. It was missing basic features, like the ability to change headers and footers from one page to the next and an automatically generated table of contents. Over the last couple of years, Google has added features to the point where Docs is becoming almost usuable.
Now they've announced that Docs will finally get the ability to switch between portrait and landscape pages in the same document. Despite the snarky take of the article, this is a useful and often necessary feature for technical documentation.
Documents created in Google Docs can now be changed between portrait and landscape orientation on a per-section basis, meaning that you don't have to make every page tall and thin just because the first page looks good that way. Microsoft Word documents that contain a mixture of vertical and horizontal pages will be able to be imported, edited, and exported soon as well.
As well, you will be able to directly edit Microsoft Word documents without having to change the format. Next year, there will be an update that allows to layer text and images and add watermarks to a document.
It's always easier to start with a template rather than creating everything from scratch. That's especially true in Docs, which lacks som of the features that would make document formatting easier. Here's an article with links to some useful Google Docs templates for both home and business use.
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