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And now something from a third non-AT person...

In article <32989@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Most of my co-workers also use Word, so there's a compatibility issue, also.
>It's just easier to use a single WP -- and while I prefer FWP to Word, I
>don't find Word to be a bad Word Processor, and there's a lot I like about
>it as well. So now I use Word, but I could use either one happily.

I'm sort of the contrapositive of chuq -- I can use either one, but not
contentedly.  To me, Word 4.0 is well-optimized and well-implemented, but
they continue to have a user interface which I find non-intuitive and rather
clunky.  The number of times I've had to go to the manual to find out "where
they put that option..."  FullWrite, on the other hand, has an interface I
love (with a few minor qualms and one semi-major one); however, when it
comes to performance, I have to give it the Victor Ehlrich award: "It's a
pig."  Even with a Mac SEx, with 5MB of memory and an 80 MB hard disk, I've
had times when I've hit the backspace key 5 or 10 times, and it's taken 2 or
3 seconds to update.  Urk.

So what do I use?  FullWrite, with my heart on my sleeve, i.e. I am really
hoping that all the fixes that Ashton-Tate has promised in their next
releases come about.  FullWrite has some features in it (referencing tables
and illustrations by clicking on their images, graphics support, nice
outline support) that bring it Awful Darn Close to what I'm looking for in
my Holy Grail of word processors.  It just hasn't evolved to that stage yet.
I'm putting my money on Ashton-Tate for the moment, but I'm not sure enough
that they'll pull it off that I'd invite someone else along for the ride.

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