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From: johnt@seila.UUCP (john grant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Need advice to help select WP package
Message-ID: <459@seila.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 22:58:46 GMT
Reply-To: johnt@seila.UUCP (john grant)
Organization: SEI Information Technology, LA, CA
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	I am looking for a word-processing package for myself (having changed
jobs).  I started life with MacWrite 1.0 (yes, I still have it, one unopened
package too), then progressed (?) to Word 3.X - there I stopped,

	I don't like the "feel" of word, I don't like not seeing what I'm
doing and I don't like the character spacing control.  I played with Fullwrite,
which seemed quite nice - I didn't crash it (even though it was v 1.0), I even
looked at the new Macwrite (nice find feature), but none of them really was
what I wanted.

	Given Ashton Tate's dubious Macintosh future, Microsoft's weird 
interface what do I pick ?

	Day to day I must be able to write letters, small reports, long-term
it must be capable of larger documents (but not books per se).  I would 
rather have one package to do it all, rather than say MacWrite & Publish-It!,
but if that is what it will take to get decent output, then so be it .

	Suggestions ?