Switch to SharePoint Online from Google Sites

Create

• Choice of site type and template for a team and/or for communicating broadly across your org

• Configurable pages, document libraries, lists, apps, news, and recent site activity.

• Multi-column pages can be edited with a built-in WYSIWYG editor.

• Configurable web parts for adding rich content in pages such as people, highlighted content, video & social stream.

• Choice of page templates (including announcement, file cabinet, and list) and a choice of themes.

• Pages can be edited with a built-in WYSIWYG editor.

Secure

• Permissions can be applied to site, collection, page, library, list, folder, or file.

• Permission levels:

  • Site owners

  • Site members (edit)

  • Site visitors (read)

• Permissions can be applied to site.

• Permission levels:

  • Is owner

  • Can edit

  • Can view

Collaborate

• Files in SharePoint Online can be co-authored with Word, PowerPoint, or Excel for the web or Word or PowerPoint 2016 or 2019. See Collaborate on Excel workbooks at the same time with co-authoring for details on co-authoring with Excel.

• Files can be displayed on a page, linked to on a page, or added to a document library.

• Files can be checked out or unshared to prevent changes.

• Users can get notifications when a file or site changes.

• Find things your colleagues are working on, news relevant to you, recently used sites, and sites based on recent searches or suggested by the Microsoft Graph.

• Connected experiences such as People cards that surface content and details from your colleagues’ profiles.

• Files are co-authored within Drive.

• Files from Drive can be linked to on a page or added to a file cabinet.

• Files can be locked to prevent changes.

• Users can get notifications when a file changes.

Manage documents

• Files can be created on the site or added from another location and displayed in thumbnail view or list view.

• Build workflows and develop custom apps with Flow and PowerApps integration in document libraries and lists.

• Files, images, and conversations are created and accessed from outside the site in Drive and email.

Sync files for offline use and uploading

• Files stored on SharePoint sites can be synced locally for offline use and for uploading to the site for sharing.

• Files stored in Drive can be synced locally for offline use and for uploading to the site for sharing.

Work on the go

• SharePoint mobile apps for:

  • Android

  • iOS

  • Windows Phone

• New SharePoint sites feature responsive design to adapt to mobile web browsers.

• There are no mobile apps for Google Sites.

• New Sites feature responsive design to adapt to mobile web browsers.