Choose your weapon: Amigawriter2.2, FinalWriter97 or Wordworth7? Why?

[amigadave]

A useful question, and I hope you will get more replies from people who have used more than one.

I have used Final Writer a little many years ago, installed and looked at, but not really used Wordworth, and have not installed or used Amiga Writer 2.2 yet.

I think Final Writer is a fairly capable and easy to use and understand word processor, but like you, I would be interested in reading other reviews and opinions.

On the PC I have switched to Open Office and refuse to buy another copy of Microsoft Office ever again.

I hate Word and actually prefer WordPerfect over any other word processor I have ever used so far.

[amigadave]

QuikSanz wrote:
Hi,

When I bought my A2000HD used from a store it came with a GVP Combo 030/40 and some software, one of them being "Final Copy", anybody know if it's any good or just a cut down Final Writer?

Chris

I needed a better word processor than what I originally had on the Amiga back in 1987 (can't remember what it was) so I purchased Final Copy when it first came out, upgraded to Final Copy II and on through all the versions of Final Writer, including buying the Windows version so working on my PC at work for personal letters or papers (frowned upon and later impossible to install any software on your workstation without administrator approval).  Final Copy is the precursor to Final Writer, not a cut down version of it.  Final Copy is not bad for 7MHz Amigas, but get Final Copy II instead if you need a word processor for a stock A500, or A1000.  I can't really compare Final Writer to the others, but can say that it was the best Amiga word processor before Wordworth came out and might be as good or better than WW.

What the AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS2.x need is a port of Open Office complete.  That would go a long way toward making the two Amiga PPC OSes usable alternatives.  Is there a version of Open Office that runs on Linux PPC?  I use Open Office for everything on my PC and hope to never have to buy a MS Office product again in my lifetime. (I hate Word and its quirks that I just can't get around.)  My other preference is WordPerfect12 Office Suite.  "Back in the Day" and perhaps even still today, WordPerfect was the best, most intuitive and easy to use PC word processor.  Too bad the Amiga version was dropped and 4.xx.  I still have the boxed Amiga WordPerfect.