🆚 Google Slides vs. Microsoft Word

Type

Document editor
Document editor

About

Google Slides is a cloud-based presentation application that enables users to create and deliver slide decks with real-time collaboration in a web browser.

It includes presenter view with speaker notes and audience Q&A, live captions generated during presentations, slide linking for non-linear navigation, and an Explore tool that suggests layouts and design improvements.

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Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.

It provides rich text editing with advanced formatting, templates and styles, spell check and grammar assistance, tables and graphics insertion, document layout controls, and collaboration features such as real-time co-authoring and comments.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Google Workspace
Business Starter (30 GB) $84/user/year
Business Standard (2 TB) $168/user/year
Business Plus (5 TB) $264/user/year

Categories

Document Editors › Rank #4
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Online Collaboration › Rank #15
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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Slides document editor is 1.4 times more popular than Microsoft Word.
Total websites

Market share

Document Editors

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Slides is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Russia, while Microsoft Word is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Russia
Spain
Italy
France
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Slides is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and blogs and wiki, while Microsoft Word is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, personal pages, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Personal Pages
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,125
#16,483
#19,532
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Name
Rank
#57,724
#83,577
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See also

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