[att.sys.pc6300] Word Processor Survey

rdj@ttrdf.UUCP (Robert D. Jackson) (01/12/88)

A friend of mine has asked me for recommendations for a VERY EASY TO LEARN
AND USE word processor for his wife.  She has just learned to put a disk
in the drive and is having trouble with the word processor that came with
their PC-clone (some word processor I've never heard of).  I use Wordstar 
2000 and am very happy with it, but I am not certain that it is easy for a 
novice to learn.  I would like to take a survey from the net for easy to 
learn and use word processors.

Please respond by email and I will post a summary and tally of the votes.

Thanks in advance.

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Bob Jackson  (rdj@ttrdf)  312-982-3578
AT&T Information Systems
Computer Systems Division, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL  60077
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stanwyck@drutx.ATT.COM (Don Stanwyck) (01/16/88)

> A friend of mine has asked me for recommendations for a VERY EASY TO LEARN
> AND USE word processor for his wife. 

My wife and our Spanish foreign exchange student have loved WordPerfect.
The lessons that came with it were easy for them to do (I skipped them),
and they feel comfortable with it.  My wife had previously given up on
PCWord, the shareware program.  She couldn't seem to learn how to use it.
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wg@aluxp.UUCP (Bill Gieske) (01/19/88)

I have been using WordPerfect for over a year, it is robust, yet easy to
learn.  WordPerfect 5.0, due out eminently, will be close to a desktop
publishing system, yet I gather the same as using a word processor (it
will be compatible with WordPerfect 4.2, the current version).  I think
you can't go wrong with WordPerfect.