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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Which Word Processor is easiest to use?
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Date: 27 May 90 10:30:55 GMT
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It depends how sophisticated you are, what your needs are, etc.

Right out of the box, Ami Pro is easier to use than Word for Windows.

Both support style sheets.  WfW goes beyond in having an excellent programming
language in which you can write really powerful macros, and in its notion of
template documents which bundle text, style sheet, macros, and field 
capability (fill-in and calculated).  All this may not mean much to you if you
don't do a lot of repetitive work, but for an organization that wants to 
invest in it, WfW provides the hooks to revolutionize and standardize the way
documents are developed.

You can draw directly in Ami Pro.
WfW has nifty annotation/revision capabilities (someone else can non-
destructively mark-up your document).  I think Ami Pro lacks this.

WfW is very close to Macintosh Word (except for its macro language).  Both
WfW and Ami Pro can save in RTF (Rich Text Format).

Skip Ami unless you're desperate to save money, and go straight for Ami Pro.

Ultimately, it's your decision.  These are both huge great wonderful complex
frustrating programs.  *** DON'T TRUST any magazine review of them, because it
takes weeks-months-years to really come to grips with either.  Hence ignore
my comments, since I only spent a few days perusing Ami Pro and WfW.  I
decided to stick with (non-Windows) Word 5.0 because WfW under Windows 2.1
had memory problems with my very complex documents, and recommended that 
others in my company use WfW because of its family relationships with Word 
5.0, and Mac Word.  But I notice that several people rebelled and use Ami Pro
instead because it's cleaner and easier at first.

Have fun, don't lose too much sleep over the decision :-)
=S Page

P.S.  Anyone else kicking themselves for not putting every spare cent into
Microsoft stock?  With hindsight, a company with quality products on every
platform, that's written two of those platforms, and writes the programming
languages and networking as well... WILL SOON TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!