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From: Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Looking for Word Processor (Word Perfect not quite there)
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Date: 14 Nov 88 01:00:40 GMT
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I almost hate to say it, since I have seen so many people knock it, but I have
used almost everything from ST Writer, thru' Regent Word, First Word, Hippo
xxxx, Word Up, Tempus, Word Perfect, and Microsoft Write, and when I want to
do a fast letter or memo I use First Word Plus, for professional stuff where
I want excellent proportionally spaced type, with the use of the glossary to
built text from boilerplate components, i.e. legal stuff with special formats,
I use Microsoft Write. The more I use it and get really intimate with it's
features, the more I like it. With G+Plus instead of GDOS and an SLM804 it
produces truly professional copy, and quickly too. The only lasting beef I
have with it is the fact that every once in a while it boots up with a one
column page width and I have to reset the margin definitions when I start up.
It does multiple columnns with right justification and all that kind of bells
and whistles stuff. A very underrated program in my mind. The lack of an
integrated spell checker may bother some, but I've stopped relying on those
since I discovered how often typos aren't caught by them, since they constitute
a real word (i.e. thin, then, than, this, his, hen, etc.) When I have a real
long doc to proof I save it as ASCII run it thru word perfect's spell check,
by far the best spell checker I ever saw and then print it thru. MSW.