Apple's last WORD

**macridah** · January 27th, 2003, 11:07 AM

Here's an article from MacWhispers that reports: Apple's Microsoft Word Killer:

"Information from a variety of sources reports that Apple is near a beta release of their long-rumored professional word processing application. Details of the software are fascinating.

The new package, said to be named "Document," includes 100% import and export functionality with Microsoft Word files, but goes much farther than that venerable word processor has ever managed in giving the user a full-scope document development environment (a term used by one of our sources in describing the new product).

It is said that Apple Document will draw heavily from the experience gained within the KeyNote development team, but has been a completely independent project within Apple. And, many of the rich feature concepts evident in KeyNote will also be present in Document, with full implementation of the Aqua interface and of Quartz graphics, including anti-aliased text.

Sources say that Document will seamlessly import and export components in a large number of formats, from Word, Excel, and Photoshop, among others. And, most interesting is a report that it will also provide many alternate output format choices, including advanced .PDF (with selectable compression), several levels of HTML (including DHTML), a wide assortment of multimedia formats, and will provide easy to use tools for adding XML tags to documents."

crossing my fingers for this one! Hopefully by MWNY

**stealth** · January 27th, 2003, 11:50 AM

once they release Document. im sure the first thing ill do is drag microsoft office to the trash

if they are truely going to bring such a project to us. i seriously cant wait

**twister** · January 27th, 2003, 02:59 PM

I would LOVE this. I hate Office and Apple Works is falling behind.

Twister

**Langley** · January 27th, 2003, 03:09 PM

Why do you hate "ms office" apart from it being MS?

**stealth** · January 27th, 2003, 03:14 PM

i dont hate it personally. i find office for mac good

i hate the pc version for word

and im sure that any apple office project will be much better than MS office !
and i hate MS because it doesnt help ppl. it makes their lives more difficult. their programs have problems. not secure. not stable. hard 2 use. they just trouble every1 instead of help them get do more complicated stuff faster

**twister** · January 27th, 2003, 03:17 PM

I hate it because it's to much. Maybe i just haven't taken the time to learn it properly. It seems like they created the program to help me only it doesn't listen to me. It just does what it thinks i want.

Twister

**Remco** · January 27th, 2003, 03:23 PM

Word is nice for simple documents, but it's a joke with more complex documents, like legal contracts. It's difficult, but it works, but all of a sudden it ruins your complete document and there's no way to get it right again, no logic will help you. The Windows-version won't help either. You can't really depend on it. Although currently there isn't much else to choose from, if you want compatibility with .doc. That's the biggest problem, their .doc-format. Once they leave that real competition can have a chance.

**Langley** · January 27th, 2003, 03:25 PM

What type of problems? I have never had one in all my essays/presentations/spreadsheets etc. Not a crash, not anything?

Come to think of it my computer illetarete girlfriend jumped onto excel and designed a calculating home budget in a arvo?