Macwrite Pro 15 Review

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 01:36:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "William M. Porter" <WMPORTER@Jetson.UH.EDU> Subject: MacWrite Pro 1.5 review (text file) This is a text file explaining why a rational person (well, most of the time) with heavy-duty word processing needs finally abandoned Microsoft Word and embraced MacWrite Pro--and why that same person feels that he has made a step UP. If you are curious about MacWrite Pro, you may find this text document helpful. This is in some ways an update of the comparison of Word and MacWrite Pro that I posted in the Archives a year ago, when I was still somewhat ambivalent about MacWrite Pro. Will Porter / University of Houston ---- Cut here: what follows is for the Archives, not the Digest ----- What follows is a long e-letter I wrote on April 25, 1994, to my friend Paul in Boston, who knows that a couple of months I gave up on Microsoft Word and began to use MacWrite Pro as my primary word processor--indeed, as virtually my only word processor. Paul knows that a few years ago I was very enthusiastic about Word and wrote to ask my opinion about MacWrite Pro. Here is my response. In a way this updates a document I wrote comparing MacWrite Pro and Word in April 1993 and uploaded last year. Let me make two things clear up front. First, I do not hate Microsoft Word. I have used it since 1985, constantly. I've written three books in it and started a fourth. I have urged folks to buy it in the past. I have written minimanuals explaining its use for the benefit of my colleagues at the University of Houston. It is a fine piece of work, no doubt about it. I liked the PC counterpart somewhat better, but let's not get started on that. Second, I do not work for Claris, not even as a beta-tester, nor do I own stock in the company. I do this only because (a) I think others might find this useful and (b) I obviously have too much time on my hands. This document was written in MacWrite Pro 1.5. Will Porter / Houston, Texas wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (Internet) 75430,1351 (Compuserve) ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Paul, Here are some tips concerning MacWrite Pro version 1.5. I have used MacWrite Pro for over a year now, and around Christmas 1993 (even before I got version 1.5) I finally began to regard it as my primary word processor. I now regard it as virtually my only word processor. Weeks go by now in which I do not launch Word. I will read the press releases when Word/Mac ver. 6 comes out. I'm betting on Spring 1995, although Microsoft swears it'll be out this summer. I think they have their fingers crossed behind their backs as they say it, but actually I don't give a darn if it comes out next week. Right now, unless it will write my papers FOR me, I doubt that I will shell out another $100 or so for an u…