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What word processor do you use?

Microsoft Word 2011 for school documents
OmmWriter for inspirational stuff
WriteRoom for inspirational Stuff
Bean for quick notes
BBEdit for misc. stuff
Grandview for day to day writing (and making amazing videos for the gf)
 
Pages on my Mac
Office 2010 on my PC.

I don't do any major work on my laptop beside basic typing. If I need to create something more complex, I'll move it over to my PC.
 
Since Lion, I really dived into the "Apple" experience and now use Pages instead of Word for normal word processing.

My English teacher has us use Google Docs for his curriculum though. So Google Docs holds that, and any docs that I need to work on collaboratively with friends.
 
Some combination of Pages, OmniOutliner, Bean and Notational Velocity.

NV is awesome as once set up (in anything from 10 seconds to maybe five minutes) it effortlessly (like proper automagically) syncs via simplenote to iPhone, or whatever, and it's free!
Does Scrivener do the simplenote sync too, or just dropbox?
Oh yea, and everyone with more than one computer that they use, or an iPhone, or iPad, should really really get a dropbox account.
 
NeoOffice, but from now I want to move to Pages. I fancy the idea of docs being synced between machines.
 
MS Word 2011 for massively formatted text.

other than that

nvalt for notes
byword for pure or lightly formatted text.


I strong dislike Pages. It is a pain to use on the 11 MBA and it is still unpleasant on a 27 ACD.
 
Google Docs if I just need text and no formatting. It also works best for collaboration, if I need to do so.

Pages for fancy formatting or I need to print. So fun and easy to use.

Word as a last resort for compatibility with Windows users. If Google Docs is not an option for collaboration, than Word it will be. I prefer not to use it if I don't have to.
 
Being retired I don't need a heavyweight WP program. I like Bean (free) for 80% of my writing and Pages for page layout stuff (newsletters, brochures, stuff like that).

I think that WP is a highly personal thing and we're very fortunate to have so many different choices depending on our needs.

I hope you discover one that is comfortable and suited for your use.
 
Yukon Jack said:
Being retired I don't need a heavyweight WP program. I like Bean (free) for 80% of my writing and Pages for page layout stuff (newsletters, brochures, stuff like that).

I think that WP is a highly personal thing and we're very fortunate to have so many different choices depending on our needs.

I hope you discover one that is comfortable and suited for your use.
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This is so true! While I think MS Word is a great general purpose processor which is a safe bet for most writers, it isn't necessarily the best WP for actually writing. I have tried Pages and I quite like it and I'd love to use it instead of Word for my editing and my drafts, but unfortunately I exist in a Word infrastructure (academia) where my work depends on the commentary function in Word. I have however managed to convert many of my fellow Mac users to Scrivener for the "writing phase" of academic projects.
 
I use Nisus Writer Pro (I'm still on 1.4.1 and not 2.0). I mostly use it for writing fiction and novels (like Nanowrimo).

I really like the sidebars; and especially the ease of having a thesaurus suggest words as I type. The main thing missing from it is the outlining/brainstorming tools that is part of tools such as Scrivener.

I don't think there's any one best word processing tool-- I think we're lucky to have so many alternatives, and so many choices from small software shops.
 
I always use Scrivener and TextEdit for my actual writing, and just use a standard wp to sort out formatting, referencing and the like.

Until now I have used Word 2011 for this, just for compatibility even though I don't like it much. But now I have a Lion mac I'm reluctant even to install it, since there seem to be loads of issues.

So I'm hoping to switch to Nisus Writer Pro. But I am concerned about compatibility with my Mac-phobic tutors, so I may have to rethink, unfortunately.
 
Word2011 for academic work.
Pages for creative layout.
Scrivener for process writing.
Writeroom for pure writing.
 
I use Bean! It's free, fast, the interface is nice, and it's got all the features I need.

Word is too slow and bloated and I don't need its' extra features.

Pages uses a proprietary file format and I don't want to be locked into that and struggle to open files years from now.

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TextEdit for plain text documents and for other things when I don't need a page layout view.

Pages sometimes actually, but only when I'm doing something with a fancy layout or lots of graphics (Word sucks for text + graphics.)
 
I use a combination of Word 2011, Pages (iPad and OS X versions) and (though it's not really a word processor) Scrivener 2 for really lengthy stuff/research etc.

Having written a PhD thesis on Word (mainly in Word 2000 and 2003) I can only mutter into my beard at not discovering Scrivener sooner.
 
Mawal said:
MS Word 2011 for massively formatted text.

other than that

nvalt for notes
byword for pure or lightly formatted text.


I strong dislike Pages. It is a pain to use on the 11 MBA and it is still unpleasant on a 27 ACD.
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Why?

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t0rr3s said:
Word2011 for academic work.
Pages for creative layout.
Scrivener for process writing.
Writeroom for pure writing.
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Not to be a pud, but what is "pure writing"?

I use Pages, dropped the Office version before '11 2 years ago next month and haven't looked back. For Sharing, PDF it... not biggie.

I also use Scrivner, especially since with the latest update it can export to eBook...

I have my students use Google Docs from their iPads, so that they can collaborate and share.

Coachingguy
 
I use MS Word for mac. Having come from a PC world 3 years ago I stuck with it. It works fine for me and saved me having to learn my way around a new piece of software:)
 
Prodo123 said:
Office 2011 came free when I bought mine from a college student, but it's absolutely horrible when compared to the Windows version that I've been using for 10+ years.
So I use Pages.
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Really? I haven't tried 2011 but I found Office 2008 to be far better and organized than 2007. All in all, I prefer Pages as it works very fast and is easily transported onto my iPad (Pages.app). Anyhow, with the introduction of iCloud and document syncing, Pages will be the app to go to for those who use an iOS version and a Mac version.
 
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