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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Processing.  Why the silence?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 18:22:52 GMT
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I agree with Chuq's breakdown of word processors into a high-end/low-end
category.  In the low-end, I don't know much about those programs, though I
am curious -- is WriteNow 2.0 out yet?  I had understood it had been delayed
forever.   Also, I'd recommend looking at the new word processor in
Microsoft Works -- it looks like it's getting to be quite a full-fledged
word processor (text wrapping around graphics, spelling checker, etc.)

In the high end, I will agree that WordPerfect causes my skin to crawl;
after working with it for three hours, my motto became Kill Ugly Software.
As to FullWrite and Word 3.0, I still use FullWrite, but I will be the first
to admit that the speed problems are REALLY getting to bug me.  I know
people with Mac IIs (or accelerator cards) who love it -- apparently it runs
well with a 68020.  But unless Ashton-Tate comes up with something for the
68000 users, I don't know what I'm going to do.  I've played with the beta
for 4.0, and it really is a nice program (also, style sheets are SO much
easier to use).

Ashton-Tate is supposed to talk at the local Mac users group meeting next
week, and I will have some pointed questions for them at that time...

                           "I can't stand this proliferation of paperwork.
                            It's useless to fight the forms, you've got to
                            kill the people producing them."
                                        -- Vladimir Kabaidze, General
                                           Director of the Ivanovo Machine
                                           Building Works
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