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From: rowland@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Fred Rowland)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Ami Pro Wordprocessing: Opinion?
Message-ID: <10790002@hpavla.avo.hp.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 14:15:23 GMT
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I've tried both Word for Windows and Ami Pro, and definitely prefer Ami Pro.
Unfortunately, I'm now designing some windows 3 Help screens and Ami Pro
lacks one essential feature for that job (it doesn't permit the use of
arbitrary letters or numbers as footnote references).

Given my druthers, I would use Ami Pro.  It's easy to use, much more
intuitive than W4W, and comes with real manuals.

Word for Windows, on the other hand, seems overdesigned to me.  It has far
too many different ways to accomplish the same thing.  And it keeps
interfering with your work because of a mistaken idea of being helpful.
The manual supplied with it is an alphabetical reference, not a task-oriented
user guide.  And the manual assumes a pre-Windows 3 environment so many
things do not work if you have the latest MicroSoft setup.  

As you've probably gathered, I do not care for W4W but I'm forced to use it.


Fred Rowland