Word Vs Word Perrrfect

[the_leander]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Open Office Writer yet. It's free and up to most word processing tasks.

I always use OpenOffice Writer. I used to use Gobe on BeOS and Zeta, but tbh OO just works, regardless of the platform I'm working on.

[cecilia]

I use OpenOffice because it's available on linux (of course), windows AND a windows portable version. I can import spreadsheets and other wierd things like that, save to pdf files, etc. I don't write or print very often so I don't need bells and whistles, but it's nice to know they are there

[nishtek]

For those interested, we just listed Word Perfect 2000, dirt cheap and easy to try out.  You can always get newest version if you like this one.  For $15 including shipping to US and likely most of the world, you can't go much wrong.  This is slightly used though.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190316685987

Word Perfect is nice.  Word is ok (used mostly due to people at work).  Open Office Writer is nice/neat, good to use at home.  But then Excel is better that Open Office Calc Spreadsheet, especially if you use it at corporate/work level.
On Amiga, I'd say: Final Writer 97, AmiWriter (from Haage&Partner), Wordworth 7, ProWrite (nice & simple) in this order.

[stefcep2]

A few months ago I was sent a 60 page document in Word format, which I opened at work with openoffice.  Unknown to me openoffice re-formatted the page numbering and clauses.  When referring to the page numbers, the original author and I got totally confused as we were talking about different things in the document!!  It took a while to work this out though.  After that I think i'll stick to Word, I think.

[the_leander]

I guess it's down to document complexity. I know that recent editions of word do pose problems with OpenOffice.

If you're only doing the basics, OO.org does the job. Might be tempted to get that WP though at that price.

[ElPolloDiabl]

We should send this thread to Microsoft. It's the only way they will learn how to make good software.

[persia]

Word Perfect X4 is available for trial download at wordperfect.com

Me, I use Pages...

[toRus]

I use AmigaWriter/WordsWorth/FinalWriter on Amiga, NeoOffice on Mac, OpenOffice elsewhere, but I have to use Word when none of them is available, e.g. at work.