![]() I won’t rate it since MacUpdate does not allow to choose which version is being rated, and my comments are for 1.3.3 and not 2.1. Word took about 2 seconds while myWritings took about 6 seconds. I decided to find and replace some random text. After relaunching the app, using Open Recent it took 11 seconds. Word opened the file in 9 seconds, and myWritings took 13 seconds. I was unable to check since after selecting to view the header I only got the spinning beach ball again! It went from 1 MB originally to close to 900 KB after saving, probably due to lost formatting, headers, footers, etc. I then tried it with a DOC file saved before with myWritings. I gave myWritings another shot, and this time I only waited a minute before doing a Force Quit. After 4 minutes of the spinning beach ball I had to Force Quit the application. I tried to open a 3.1 MB TXT document in myWritings. I don’t find Word’s interface cluttered, and interestingly while doing a test of speed myWritings performed very poorly against Word. In this case, the developer pretty much says that Word suffers from a cluttered interface and speed issues (among other things). Although I’ve used Macs 95% of the time for over a decade, I actually like Microsoft and use Office regularly. I know it’s popular among Mac users to bash Microsoft. For example, I found no way to include drop-down lists within a document, or merge data from other sources for letters, labels, or envelopes. As the developer mentions in the Help, “myWritings is not designed and written to replace Word.” This becomes evident when dealing with certain tasks. The statement from a previous review that “anyone can use this in place of Word” is a bit naïve. Opening Word documents results in missing information (e.g., formats, headers, footers, graphics, margins). Quite different form other applications which include a Table menu item and commands such as “New Table,” "Insert Table" or “Draw Table” If you choose it when no table is selected, it will create a new table. There is a sort of Table “inspector” but it is not very refined. Working with Tables via a Contextual Menu is clumsy. There’s no button to Save or Cancel Preferences. In contrast, Word, Scrivener, Mellel, Nisus Writer, and others, work fine in OS X 10.5.x and, except for Word, all are still offering PPC compatibility. I have no interest in upgrading to 10.6 or 10.7, so the lack of development compatible with an older OS is a minus. Please note that these comments are for version 1.3.3, which runs on OS X 10.5 It's the word processor for the rest of us.įor those who just simply want to write and for all those missing WriteNow :-) Please notice - myWritings is not designed and written to replace Word. MyWritings is a clean, fast and mighty writing environment for the daily 99% of our writing tasks. No single wasteful feature.But a sophisticated and powerful functionality. So too our Mac.Īnd that's why you'll love myWritings even more… We don't need a speaking paperclip or ugly icons. We don't want dozens of buttons and labels and sub-buttons and panels and sub-panels. We all just want to do our work - we don't want to read hundreds of pages of a manual first to realize, that it still does not work. And everybody has unique demands and needs. But nobody really needs Word all the time or its cluttered interface and of course not its speed. ![]() MyWritings is the word processor for the rest of us, and all those missing WriteNow.Įverybody knows Word and everybody 'knows' what a word processor should do.
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