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Article: Word processing powerhouses. (high-end word processors) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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How do the new-generation programs compare? Have they gotten too big? Macworld Lab finds out.
You've seen the headlines, heard the debates, read the letters to the editor: Microsoft Word 6 is slow as molasses! WordPerfect 3.1 is faster! Word 6 users are going back to Word 5.1! Nisus Writer 4 is better! Word 6 has everything a writer could want! What are the facts behind all the commotion? Which, in fact, is the best of this new crop of high-end word processors?
Making that call is not easy. Today's high-end word processors are among the most complex software products you'll encounter--unless, perhaps, you do maintenance on the space shuttle or operate an ...