Ideal Word Processor?

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

I like to write, but it drives me crazy that all I have is Notepad, which has no spell check. I am starting to grow tired of Microsoft Word on my school's computers always picks apart grammar that I find is perfectly acceptable- it is so anal it stops to check every little thing, sentence structures that I've seen thousands of times in literature. So what is the ideal Word Processor program for someone who relies on Windows ME (pity me, Mike, if you will), is usually pretty happy with his sentence structure (when I WRITE a sentence fragment, I WANT a sentence fragment, goddamnit!) so that when I want grammar checked, it picks apart oinly the mst obvious mistakes.

[haas mark]

I like to write, but it drives me crazy that all I have is Notepad, which has no spell check. I am starting to grow tired of Microsoft Word on my school's computers always picks apart grammar that I find is perfectly acceptable- it is so anal it stops to check every little thing, sentence structures that I've seen thousands of times in literature. So what is the ideal Word Processor program for someone who relies on Windows ME (pity me, Mike, if you will), is usually pretty happy with his sentence structure (when I WRITE a sentence fragment, I WANT a sentence fragment, goddamnit!) so that when I want grammar checked, it picks apart oinly the mst obvious mistakes.

Turn off the grammar check, and voila! Also, if you can find it, Microsoft Works is comparable. Plus, you can have spreasheets within the same program, announcement wizards, calendar wizards, planner wizards, wizards for a lot of stuff.

[jegs2]

I like to write, but it drives me crazy that all I have is Notepad, which has no spell check. I am starting to grow tired of Microsoft Word on my school's computers always picks apart grammar that I find is perfectly acceptable- it is so anal it stops to check every little thing, sentence structures that I've seen thousands of times in literature. So what is the ideal Word Processor program for someone who relies on Windows ME (pity me, Mike, if you will), is usually pretty happy with his sentence structure (when I WRITE a sentence fragment, I WANT a sentence fragment, goddamnit!) so that when I want grammar checked, it picks apart oinly the mst obvious mistakes.

I go with Wordstar 5.0! Oh, wait, wrong decade...

[Evil Sadistic Bastard]

Grammar check is irritating. Me hate grammar check. Although it can be helpful at time.

[TrailerParkJawa]

Check out openoffice or turn off grammer check.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

Turn off the grammar check, and voila! Also, if you can find it, Microsoft Works is comparable. Plus, you can have spreasheets within the same program, announcement wizards, calendar wizards, planner wizards, wizards for a lot of stuff.

The funny thing is, I had Word, until my computer got a virus that required it to be wiped clean by a hacker friend of mine. He's the one who put in Notepad; I no longer have word, so I think this is a good chance to get something better, if there is anything better.

[TrailerParkJawa]

Notepad is installed by default in the Microsoft OS.

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/sour ... index.html

Try the above link. I have not tried it , but I believe others on this board have recommended it.

[data_link]

Probably simpler just to turn off grammar check.

Also, if you don't particularly care about complex formatting (which, if you use notepad, you probably don't), you might want to try Textpad, available at http://www.textpad.com. Not only is it a useful text editor (and it has a spell check), but it's also unbelievably useful for programming.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

I like to write, but it drives me crazy that all I have is Notepad, which has no spell check. I am starting to grow tired of Microsoft Word on my school's computers always picks apart grammar that I find is perfectly acceptable- it is so anal it stops to check every little thing, sentence structures that I've seen thousands of times in literature. So what is the ideal Word Processor program for someone who relies on Windows ME (pity me, Mike, if you will), is usually pretty happy with his sentence structure (when I WRITE a sentence fragment, I WANT a sentence fragment, goddamnit!) so that when I want grammar checked, it picks apart oinly the mst obvious mistakes.

MS Word with all the options unchecked. No autoformatting, no auto-highlighting of things it thinks you've fucked up. I do it to every computer I'm on at school. I find the "Autoformat" menu and uncheck all the options. Then I find the "Options" menu and tell it not to check my spelling or grammar as I type. Makes life much less stressful for me.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Turn off the grammar check, and voila! Also, if you can find it, Microsoft Works is comparable. Plus, you can have spreasheets within the same program, announcement wizards, calendar wizards, planner wizards, wizards for a lot of stuff.

The funny thing is, I had Word, until my computer got a virus that required it to be wiped clean by a hacker friend of mine. He's the one who put in Notepad; I no longer have word, so I think this is a good chance to get something better, if there is anything better.

For Windows, there really is nothing better than Word. As much as we all hate to admit it. OpenOffice is cute, but it tends to suck major donkey dick sometimes. StarOffice tends to be rather erratic when it comes to speaking M$, and who the hell knows what happened to WordPerfect.

Moral: MS Office tends to be the best office suite for Windows . . . and it's even better if you know somebody who'd burn you a copy of the CD for free.

[Cal Wright]

I don't have Word at all on this computer. I use thing called officeorg. Someone on this board gave me the link. I'll try and dig it up. At first it had some help boxes that popped up but it didnt take long before it let me alone.

[Enlightenment]

I don't have Word at all on this computer. I use thing called officeorg.

Chances are, that's openoffice.org, which has already mentioned in this thread and the name is its own link.

[Jason von Evil]

I'm in a similar boat, I only have notepad (I don't like it) and wordpad. My spelling sucks pretty bad and I could use a spell checker, too bad no one has created a plugin for wordpad. =\

[Dahak]

I prefer MS Word. And although the grammar check might be annoying, the spell checking is quite useful when you type long texts.

Open Office (or StarOffice as its earlier name) sucks so many ways it's not funny.

And if you're a masochist (or a total geek), you could always try LaTeX

[Pu-239]

yeah openoffice is slow. LaTeX is a typesetter, not a word processor.

[Pu-239]

It's pretty goood though. However it does a poor job of outputting very fancy formatting to word format

[Pu-239]

Textboxes don't convert right