close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close) (06/24/91)
I'm soon going to be buying a 286 laptop and I need suggestions for a good word processor for it. Not just any old word processor, mind you, but one that will allow multiple documents (without my having to go to a Windows-based system). Right now I own an Atari ST and use WordPerfect for Atari on it. Although this version is stuck at 4.2 (4.1 in the numbering system, but 4.2 in functionality) is has the wonderful feature of allowing you to have 4 document windows active at any one time. I've toyed with just switching to WordPerfect for the PC, but I understand it only allows 2 active windows. Are their any other word processors out there for the PC that allow more than one or two windows/documents active at a time? -- Diane Barlow Close close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com I'm at lunch today. :-)
jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun24.001909.28280@fido.asd.sgi.com> close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes: >Are their any other word processors out there for the PC that allow more >than one or two windows/documents active at a time? I have found MicroSoft Word to be a good word processor. I only used version 5.5 a few times, and so far I am more used to the feel of word 5.0a. At least in 5.0a you can use multiple windows. Not sure what the limit is, but 8 seems to ring a bell. (As they can't overlap, you wouldn't want much more than 5 even is 60 line mode). - John