🚀 go-pugleaf

     I sympathize with all those who are looking for an alternative
to WORD, but for me, that alternative is not WriteNow 3.0
     I purchased WN 3.0, learned to use it, and found a number of
likable features, particularly in the area of disk and RAM use and 
some niceties in the way the app operates.
     After a few days, however, I knew I'd stay with WORD. I missed some
of the very clever, useful features in WORD that I had taken for granted:
the ability to navigate Yes/No/Cancel dialogues from the keyboard, a list of
the last four open files, the ability to delete files from within WORD, etc.
     Couple this with the fact that WORD is THE standard, and WN just didn't
make any sense for me, though it may for others.
     This is not to say that WORD is without faults. It is big and slow,
and the manual is a tome. 
     Here are some features of WN I would like to see in WORD:
@ability to copy ruler settings easily and intuitively
@more WYSIWYGness in normal view

     I do love WORD's ability to let you set the default font, set save 
reminders, and generally customize the living hell out it.

     Here are some quirks I didn't like in WN:

@To use ruler, you must click on it, then click again to use it.
@After using ruler, you must click on the document window, where
 your cursor is sent to the beginning of the paragraph.
@Generally unattractive appearance, especially the icon and that
 TeachText Save/Don't Save/Cancel dialog box.

     The grass is always greener in another word processor, but in the 
rush to trash WORD and praise WN, some facts seem to have been left out.

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Leslie Lamont Jones        ^^    Wildness is our tonic...                     
ljones@utkvx.utk.edu       ^^    We can never have enough of nature.
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