On Sun, 23 May 2004 17:27:12 +0100, Roger Houghton wrote: >There are a few word processsors that are, IMHO, better than either >Word or AppleWorks (though none as nice as WordPerfect). I use Mellel. > >MacUser had a review of some last edition: >
Yes, it was this article that reminded me about OpenOffice. Re-reading it, I'm beginning to think that the sorts of documents I deal with (short letters, quotes/invoices and support documents with plenty of screenshots) are a bit of a special case - AppleWorks' budget DTP tools work quite well for the latter and its word processing abilities are good enough for the rest. Of course, it gets more difficult to import/export once you start dealing with loads of graphics and tables. So things like word count don't interest me....and I can't believe that there's barely a mention of ThinkFree's sluggishness in the review. They must have been using a dual 2GHz G5 :-) Another problem I had (not mentioned in the review) was that I couldn't share Thinkfree Write files between OS9 and OSX versions of the application - the OS9 application is still version 1.7 and cannot handle the newer features. So you end up having to export to Microsoft Word format to go between old and new Mac platforms, and use Thinkfree Write format to guarantee the same appearance between Mac and Windows platforms. Which is completely the wrong way around and makes my head hurt! I'll take a look at Mellel... Neil -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
