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Posted by Hugh
Aug 9, 2010 at 05:17 PM
Open Office (and Neo Office): regarded as somewhat clunky I think, but the price is incomparable and many folk use one or other as their main WP.
Posted by Hugh
Aug 9, 2010 at 05:20 PM
Sorry Steve! Repeating your words; it sounds like our experiences of this software are very similar.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 9, 2010 at 05:37 PM
Hugh,
Glad you chose the same word to describe Open Office—it helps me varify my experience, as well as giving me some hope for my feeble memory!
Steve
Posted by Tom S.
Aug 9, 2010 at 07:30 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I have been so busy with outliners for my new Mac, I have not much looked at word
>processors. I did download Open Office, Mellel, and Scrivener. I wonder if there’s
>advantage to also checking out Nissus and Mariner, or the Mac WP.
>
>Any
>thoughts?
This may be heresy but I find that MS Word 2008 works just fine.
I know its not a WP but I’ll probably give Scrivener a try the next time I have a big writing project. I’ve resisted up until now because I need to manage citations with something and I’m not sure how Scrivener handles that. I know for sure that my days of manually adding and formatting them are over, though.
Tom S.
Posted by Hugh
Aug 9, 2010 at 07:59 PM
You can set a citations manager such as EndNote or Sente in the Preferences, use a hotkey to launch it and then paste citations into your project.