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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor for Windows 3.0?
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.155636.5769@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <3116@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 15:56:36 GMT

In article <3116@s5.Morgan.COM> joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) writes:
>In article <1991Apr26.004923.8553@int13.hf.intel.com> tim@int13.hf.intel.com
>(Timothy E. Forsyth) writes:
>>lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Prometheus) writes:
>>>Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG Word Processor for Windows?
>>
>>Geee!!! It sounds like what you want is ....  wait for it ...
>>  WORD FOR WINDOWS (by none other that Microsoft)
>
>I use AmiPro (from LOTUS) and like it a lot. It is FULLY windows compatible
>and can import a wide variety of documents created by other word processors.
>It is WYSIWYG and has so many features I couldn't begin to list them.

     Both of these products are quite good, but different.  I have
little experience with Ami, so I invite others (like Joe) to supplement
my observations on this product.
     As far as I can tell, Ami Professional is largely oriented to graphics
design and desktop publishing.  (It includes drawing tools and other
things one normally doesn't associate with a word processor.)  From what
I hear, its interface is highly intuitive.
     On the other hand, Word for Windows is an extremely programmable
text production environment.  You can do things in WfW like create
documents that prompt you for input.  (If this doesn't sound too useful
to you, think about the routine task of writing letters.  There is a lot
to a letter that's always the same, and then there are minor variations
that need be introduced like the salutation.)  The tradeoff on all this power
is that WfW has a moderately steep learning curve.  Luckily, the manual
is quite good.  Unfortunately, it's incomplete.  (It doesn't cover the
macrolanguage, WordBASIC.)  WfW is an excellent choice if you have heavy
duty text processing needs but your graphical needs are restricted to
importing graphics from other programs.
     I hope this was useful.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca