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From: moorej@cpsin2.uucp (Jeffrey R Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WriteNow - $69.95 limited time offer!
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Date: 10 Jan 91 04:52:44 GMT
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johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>Announcing!  A limited time offer to owners of MacWrite, Work, and Works;
>upgrade to WriteNow 2.2 for a special low price of $69.95.  Also included
>at a no extra charge is Grammatik Mac 2.0 (a grammar-checker) and a 
>clip art utility.  The offer expires on January 31, 1991.

	I wonder if its possible for those of us who already own
WriteNow to pick up this extra software, cheap?  I bought my copy from
someone who was upgrading to Nisus, and haven't transfered the license
yet, so I don't get the literature.


>I also considered Nisus, by the way.  I received a demo disk from Paragon
>recently and was very impressed; it's powerful, intuitive, and unfortunately,
>ENORMOUS.  The macros are great, but for my needs the software seems to 

	I've been doing some DTP on the side in nisus, and I have to say
that I am also very impressed.  The more that I use nisus, the more I
like it.  I have only found a few things wrong with it (E-mail me for a
list), but their attention to detail and consistancy in the user
interface is amazing.  Ever since I accidentally pasted a graphic into
the find/replace dialog and had the graphic appear (Yes, It seems to
search and replace on graphics), amazing is a word that I have used alot
to describe nisus.  


	Both programs are really good.  Choosing between the two, its
hard to go wrong.


====== Jeff Moore <---> moorej@cpsin.cps.msu.edu ======