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WordPerfect is a standard word processor that is available for many different platforms. With it, it is easy to transfer work from the computers at work to those at home and back again – which is important for many who must bring work home from the office. When the Amiga version became so old that it was no longer compatible with the new versions, this ability was lost – at least to a large extent. WordPerfect is also quite powerful, on other platforms. It is the only 'transportable' word processor we have had that would do such things as indexes, easy column handling, endnotes or footnotes and that sort of thing easily. It is so widely used that there are many pre-made style sheets and macros available for it. ProText, to the best of my knowledge, is not available here at all, and is certainly not in wide use in offices. Is ProText also used on other platforms – computers likely to be found at work? Does it do the endnotes and footnotes, the tables of contents, several kinds of columns, and easy indexing? Does it have macros and style sheets? I'm pretty sure that offices over here would not be using ProText, else we would have heard more about it. We have quite a few word processors here that are excellent for what they do – mixing text with graphics, providing good printer output, allowing use of several fonts, and a few of them have a thesaurus and/or spell checker. Some offer one or another of the facilities above, but not all of them. And NONE of the others are likely to be found on the other platforms that people find at work, so they cannot bring work home to finish and then take it back to work and just stick in the disk and go the next day. For my own use, I don't have to have compatibility any more, but I do want the abilities that WordPerfect has. Many people need the actual compatibility. When the Amiga has none of the software used in offices available, it cuts down on its credibility as a machine capable of being used for 'real work.' —Betty