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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know, it’s confusing. A Chromebook is basically a web browsing machine. There is no desktop or folders—it’s ONLY a Chrome web browser. As long as you only use Google sheets and Google pages, it’s fine. But you can’t save files on it, you save them to your Google drive. You can’t run Word. It’s great for what it is, and it doesn’t get glitchy like a laptop. Kids can’t really screw it up. [/quote]

+1  If you need to be able to send a letter as a Word doc then a Chromebook is not for you.  If you want to be able to save documents and access them without using the internet, then a Chromebook is not for you.  There is a wider level of functionality in Excel that doesn't exist in the Google version of Excel online.  In general a laptop will be a better fit for an adult than a Chromebook imo.  The downside of a laptop is that you will need to purchase an Office software package in order to be able to use the laptop for office types of uses like Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

I have a work laptop and a work Chromebook.  999 times out of 1000 I will use the laptop before the Chromebook.[/quote]

It's cumbersome but can't you write something in google docs and save it as a word file? Or better yet, a pdf?[/quote]

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