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

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Back in the day, I used Final Writer quite extensively and was happy enough with its capabilities. Like Amiduffer, I was pretty unimpressed with the bundled A1200 version of WordWorth.

Nice to see some other OpenOffice users on here too!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

I like Protext too - very useful application and great that it's cross-platform.

I used to use it on both Amigas and on PCs via MS-DOS, mainly as an editor for cross-assembling Z80 code - great that you can get to and from the OS's command line with no effort!

But for real work these days, it's OpenOffice all the way. No need to pay for overpriced M$ products that do less than the free ones!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

adolescent wrote:
OpenOffice, at ~440MB, can't really be considered "thin".  Plus, the facts that it mangles about half the MS Office files it opens, and isn't nearly as powerful for actual business users, should be at least considered when dismissing Office because of "bloat".

440Mb? A full install takes up ~330Mb here... But yeah, not exactly "thin"!

As for mangling MS Office files - I've had a few instances where some formatting is altered slightly, but the bulk of MS-format files import fine, including large Word documents with multiple sections and styles.

And for 95% of business users doing typical word processing and spreadsheet/graphing tasks, OpenOffice is more than powerful enough. Granted, for the top 5% of "power" users, it may not suffice, but for the others, it's great.

Last year at my workplace, the time came for renewals of MS Office to upgrade from the 2000 version and we made the decision to junk it and go with OpenOffice instead for everyone except for ~30 people at the company's HQ. Aside from a few initial teething problems, it went very well and is now nicely integrated into our environment.

Anyway... I digress!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
...all my letters are originally written in OpenOffice, so the mangled M$ Office files aspect you mentioned doesn't exist for me...

Yup! No sense in converting to/from MS Office formats every time a file needs to be opened or saved. And with OOo's nice and easy PDF export, that does the job for anything that needs to go to non-OpenOffice users...

 - Ali