Any attempt to do serious work within InDesign would lead to a Chromebook being flung at the wall in a fit of rage. The Lenovo's desktop was badly shrunk within the Chromebook's browser window, making it very difficult to read anything on the screen and impossible to hit small icons with the mouse. Whilst making the connection wasn't too painful, actually manipulating the desktop was. I used Chrome Remote Desktop to hook into my Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga X1, wondering whether it would let me use InDesign, Photoshop and all the other apps for which there's no good Chromebook equivalent. You might think that one way around some of the app restrictions we've identified would be to remote desktop into your regular PC. The other downside is the same one that afflicted the Slack app the default font size is fixed and uncomfortably small to read for a fortysomething. If your Chromebook has stylus support, OneNote instantly kicks into Draw mode when your stylus come in contact with the screen, letting you scribble notes or draw a diagram without fuss. There's little in the way of editing options, but arguably that's not a major drawback for a note-taking app. That said, the app's mobile-first design does work well in windowed mode, allowing you to pop a small OneNote window on top of, for example, the web browser and make notes while referring to the content in the background.
Maybe it's just ingrained muscle memory, but having notebook sections running vertically down the side of the screen rather than horizontally across the top just feels awkward and wrong on a landscape screen. It feels like a stretched mobile app, rather than the full-blown desktop app I'm used to. Of all the main Office apps, OneNote is the one that struggles most with operating on a full-size laptop screen.
On the plus side, it coped fine with a password-protected worksheet, but overall it's probably best to think of Excel for Android as more of a glorified worksheet reader than a true Excel replacement.
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