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From: palmerc@infonode.ingr.com (Chris Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.224413.22111@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:44:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.092400.10827@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jan14.104559.23914@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>Have any of you who are flaming MB tried
>Word or 123?  Word for the MAC is one of the best, if not the best,
>wordprocessors around. 
>As for Spreadsheets, 123 is the best.  Why because it is the
>standard (please no flames :) ).  Go into any major company and see which
>spredsheet they use, 9 times out of 10 it will be 123. 

I will agree with you 100% that Microsoft Word (for the Mac) is one of, if 
not the, best word processing programs I have ever used and that includes
different programs on at least six different machines and operating systems
plus several dedicated word processing units.  The ease of use, speed, and
sheer power of it make it a winner.  It still has some faults (spell checking
comes to mind), but its virtues outweigh them.  I use WordPerfect on my Amiga
because it is the only program I have found that is both powerful and fast. 
It is by no means pretty, easy to use, or flexible, but I've had to learn to
live with it.

I have to disagree, however, about Lotus 1-2-3.  I do not believe that 
being an industry standard says very much about the quality of your product
(look at IBM, :-) ).  It would look good to potential business customers to
have 1-2-3 available for the Amiga, but I don't know how many hardcore
Amiga people would use it.  I've used 1-2-3 many times, and every time I
use it I am amazed at how much I don't like it.  Analyze!, or even several
PD programs like AnalytiCalc, are as powerful and more easy to use and even
1-2-3 compatible to some extent.  I hate to give so much good press to 
MicroSoft considering their prejudice against non-IBM/Mac stuff, but
MicroSoft Excel on the Mac is an excellent spreadsheet.

To be extra fair on the above reviews, I worked during college doing typing,
data-entry, and desktop publishing on Macintoshes at a local business.  We
had tons of software at our disposal, but Word, Excel, Adobe Illustrator,
and Aldus Pagemaker were used 100 times more often than any other packages.
Ironically, I haven't found Amiga software in the same niches that are half
as nice as the above mentioned four packages.

P.S.  I've run all four packages on IBM compatibles (386-based, Windows, etc.)
      and I must say that I was not at all impressed.  I guess I'm really
      prejudiced against IBM systems.

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