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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Fullwrite Prof.
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Date: 9 Oct 90 22:21:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ml27192    Oct  9 17:21:00 1990


You write:

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FullWrite

Hi.  I was wondering if you could give me your impressions of this
program.  In particular, how does it compare to Word 4.0 and MacWrite II?
I've used both Word and MW but would like to see what other people think
about some of the other programs out there.
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I say all this as a Word power user:

I just bought FullWrite recently, having seen it at MacConnection for about
$27, and couldn't resist. I was interested in the intergrated drawing
feature, since I'm doing technical docs that really need diagrams
and copying back and forth between SuperPaint or Canvas and Word is
getting anoying. However...

FullWrite is more like a page-layout-capable version of MacWrite than
a Word competitor. It has _very_ basic style sheets, so cumbersome
that there is no point (or flexibility) in using them. Word's outliner
is also easier to use--or, rather, I haven't figured out how to move things
around in FW's. And it has no tables. Its manuals are skimpy, even the
"reference" one, which offers little more that the intro. I love the
sidebars, but they don't seem to be easily resized!

FullWrite doesn't seem very intuitive. Word isn't either, especially
its style sheets, but once you learn how to harness that power you can
do almost anything. FullWrite doesn't have the power. If it does,
I haven't found it, and I think _Word_ is reasonably understandable once
you get into it's mindset. I can't get into FullWrite's.

I would, and will, stick with Word by all means. 
I will probably start using "live" pastes from Superpaint to deal
with the updating problem, and won't have conversion problems. (FullWrite
reads Word 3 but crashes on 4. Hope you know in advance what version you
try to read.)

I would like to love FullWrite, but now I'm indifferent. It was a cheap
experiment.

Mark Lanett, ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu