Hello It depends on what you want and need to do. You are required in business to use MS Word; most college professors also use Word and expect students to follow suite. Publishers expect manuscript submissions to be in Word.
GW Micro does a wonderful job supporting Word and I use it 8-12 hours a day.. Peter Duran From: Craig Werner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: help choosing a word processor Hello, Grant. You may want to give Jarte from Carolina Road Software a try. It uses the WordPad engine as its platform, but its capabilities go far beyond WordPad. Although it cannot save in the ".docx" format, it can read files in that format and can save to a ".doc" or "rtf" file. Jarte's developer is committed to accessibility and has implemented a Screen Reader Mode for use with programs such as Window-Eyes. He answers email promptly and is extremely helpful. There is a free version of Jarte and a shareware version. For documentation and the software itself, go to http://www.jarte.com Craig On 4/21/2013 11:12 PM, Grant E. Metcalf wrote: I am needing to upgrade my word processor capability. I have been using Word Pad with XP Pro SP3 and Window-Eyes 8.1. I need a word processor that will read and edit files ending with the .docx (d o c x) extention. What is the latest version of MS-Word that works with XP PRO and will read and edit .docx files? Other suggestions would also be welcome. Thank you! Grant E. Metcalf Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc. Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Desk: 754-4207 Website: http://bartimaeus.us/ If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
