Browser-based word processors?

Most professional editors work in MS Word, so that if changes are to be handled seamlessly, you need to work with them. My last book moved back and forth between a line editor, an executive editor and myself quickly with each person's comments standing out so that the final product was easier to manage. Chrome has its own word processor which is compatible with Word, but it doesn't have the powerful editorial capacity when working with a team. I wrote my first book before the age of Internet. No writer today would mail a five hundred page manuscript back and forth and no editor on the planet would accept it unless the writer's name was E Hemingway or W Shakespeare.

If you believe your writing is worthy of publication by a house that provides editorial services to its contracted authors, you need to accept an investment in Word. Even an inexpensive computer can run it. If you are writing for yourself and/or self-publishing it doesn't matter.

Yay, Janet!

Google Docs is great! It has pretty much all the functionality of Microsoft Word plus other features. It's absolutely free. You only need a gmail account to use it.

See if you can work online on Google Docs, then.