My publisher provides a MS Word style sheet that they want me to use. MS Word is the word processor of the business world and most publishers want you to submit your work in MS Word format. However, if you’ve come across better tools feel free to educate us in the comments so we can explore them for future blogs. Here’s our attempt to round up the top five best word-processors. However, each is particularly strong in some areas over the others.
Nothing terribly ground-breaking has happened since 2006 to word-processors, except that they keep copy-catting each other’s best features to the benefit of users, like saving to the Cloud and collaboration tools. There are valuable add-on tools like Grammarly, or Scapple (from Literature & Latte), worth mentioning in future blogs, but they aren’t fully-fledged word-processors, thus not within the scope of this blog. Scrivener is now at version 3.0 and seems here to stay. That same year, Scrivener 1.0 by Literature & Latte arrived and gave writers an alternative to MS Word with its Dark Mode screen on the Mac and sophisticated outlining features. Now they could share and update documents in real-time. No longer did they need to attach large files to emails and hope they made it to the recipients. No longer did authors need to print out and make paper copies to make redlines. In 2006, Google Docs came along and changed the way people worked. MS Word remains the heavy hitter in the word-processing world and it’s affordable for $6.40/month for the entire MS Office package, but an increasing number of free apps keep driving down its price. Although, there are loyal WordPerfect users out there and there’s a WordPerfect Office Professional 2020 suite available, but at over $500 it’s out-priced itself out of the market.
Its main competitor became WordPerfect, but that program soon fizzled out and became a minor player. The market has remained fairly static for word-processors since MS Word was released as Multi-Tool Word Version 1.0 in 1983, it’s dominated the word-processing market.
By Jeff Hortobagyi, Cathalynn Cindy Labonte-Smith, Elizabeth Rains & Stephen Smith Introduction
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