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From: tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee Thiel)
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Subject: Re: MacWrite II vs. MS Word
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Date: 17 Jun 91 12:05:51 GMT
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>I'm considering purchasing MacWrite II (with a free upgrade to MW Pro when it
>comes out), but I've only used MS Word 4.0 so far.  Does anyone have any
>comments or ideas where I can find a real comparison of the two?
In many ways MacWrite II and Microsoft Word are two different beasts, MacWrite
II is simply not as high-end or full-featured as Word but is easier to use.
Perhaps MacWrite Pro will change that.  For reviews you might want to take a
look at the 3rd Edition of The Macintosh Bible.  For a personal opinion I would
reccommend WriteNow for a low-end word processor and Nisus for high-end.  I
think both are significantly better than MacWrite II or Word and I have used
all of them.  In fact I use Word quite alot because it is used so much by the U
of I.