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I try to like it but… 
- Version: 3.1, 9/1/2008 05:21PM PST
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rubaiyat
…it has always been that bit odd and hard to use. The few outstanding features it had like non-contiguous text selection are available in virtually every Cocoa app now.
I have gone for clean, mean and fast simplicity in iText Express which is free, or the big brother upgrade iText Pro '08 [US$15]. Both are absolutely brilliant fast and easy to use, the way mac programs used to be. No wonder you'll find the users who have discovered them raving about them.
I use them to store all sorts of media, hold website clippings, do DTP to pdf, manage my links and DLs etc and am still finding new uses for them.
That is all cream on top of the best word processors money can buy (in the case of iText Express, none necessary).
Do yourself a favor, shake off the old clutter and get true Mac word processing back on your desktop.
I have gone for clean, mean and fast simplicity in iText Express which is free, or the big brother upgrade iText Pro '08 [US$15]. Both are absolutely brilliant fast and easy to use, the way mac programs used to be. No wonder you'll find the users who have discovered them raving about them.
I use them to store all sorts of media, hold website clippings, do DTP to pdf, manage my links and DLs etc and am still finding new uses for them.
That is all cream on top of the best word processors money can buy (in the case of iText Express, none necessary).
Do yourself a favor, shake off the old clutter and get true Mac word processing back on your desktop.
Is there really a need for this? - Version: 3.0.2, 5/6/2008 05:05PM PST
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bgrubb
After I discovered OpenOffice and Neooffice I started using Nisus Writer Express less and less to the point I forgot I even had it. At least until I upgraded to an iMac and version tracker showed me every piece of software I still had (unused or not) in need of an update.
Coming back I have to ask does this program even have a purpose anymore? OpenOffice and Neooffice offer so much more for far less of a price. IMHO time has passed this program by.
Coming back I have to ask does this program even have a purpose anymore? OpenOffice and Neooffice offer so much more for far less of a price. IMHO time has passed this program by.
No Thanks - Version: 3.0, 11/24/2007 09:33AM PST
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Kevinm78
I used Nisus years ago in the pre-system 10 days and loved it. I had quite a few problems with Nisus Writer Express though. I found it unusable. It had lots of bugs. It would place spaces between anything using the ' symbol, such as "Kevin' s." Tech support never answered my requests. Now I find it hard to swallow that if I want a version that works with Leopard, and hopefully fixes the bugs, I need to upgrade to 3. I also have a family license for which there is no upgrade path. I hate Word but it looks like I'm back to it.
I happily paid for the upgrade - Version: 3.0, 10/10/2007 12:38AM PST
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drtimothyjames
After being rather blasted for my comments on the recent MS Word update, I felt compelled to write a review of NWE 3.0, since only a few people have done that. Word may have its champions, but I am not among them. I've explored literally every Word alternative I could find, and I settled on Nisus. (I also like Mellel, but I don't like that I can't save in Word format without going through several steps. Nisus makes it a lot easier.)
I have found this program to be fast, stable, and sufficiently feature-rich, particularly now that it offers text wrap with images. I'll grant that Word provides a host more features, but if you want to simply get down to the task of writing, Nisus is likely to be very satisfying. The learning curve is low, and customer support has been good. I'd like to be able to see it work with .docx files, but I'm sure that will come in time.
I have found this program to be fast, stable, and sufficiently feature-rich, particularly now that it offers text wrap with images. I'll grant that Word provides a host more features, but if you want to simply get down to the task of writing, Nisus is likely to be very satisfying. The learning curve is low, and customer support has been good. I'd like to be able to see it work with .docx files, but I'm sure that will come in time.
Nisus WE is fantastic - Version: 3.0, 9/16/2007 08:40AM PST
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pawelkono
For my money, Nisus Writer (either Express or Pro) is the best word processor for Mac. Mellel is fine too, but Nisus is much less troublesome at contacting the Microsoft Oriented World. I strongly recommend it to you.
It's getting better all the time - Version: 2.7, 6/4/2007 03:59AM PST
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auser
Better much better
Great Real Word Processor - Version: 2.7, 4/6/2007 06:06PM PST
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Paulo_G.P._535
It's great to see an application that doesn't eat all the resources from your computer like Pages or doesn't give you a message "Disk full...", when you have a lot of free space, like MS Word (still not universal) do.
This app it's Universal, fast (even on a g3), has a simple/good mac interface. What more can I say!
Keep up the fantastic work!
This app it's Universal, fast (even on a g3), has a simple/good mac interface. What more can I say!
Keep up the fantastic work!
Best alternative to Word - Version: 2.7, 1/20/2007 10:45AM PST
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naturallynaomi
If you are looking for an alternative to Word look no further. Nisus Writer Express (NWE) has it all: universal binary, decent Microsoft Word 97-2004 support (.doc format), and an easy-to-use interface. Moreover, all the documents you created can be opened in Microsoft Word and many other word processors (since it is saved in the well-known rtf format). Best of all, the price is very low compared to Word (which costs quite a lot of money). It also blends in perfectly into the Mac OS X environment.
Compared to other alternatives like Mellel and Mariner Write, this is my preferred choice. Mellel namely saves documents in a propietary format (which cannot be read by Word and others). Mariner Write doesn't have the visual appeal of NWE, but does have a low memory usage. I would suggest to try them both out.
Compared to other alternatives like Mellel and Mariner Write, this is my preferred choice. Mellel namely saves documents in a propietary format (which cannot be read by Word and others). Mariner Write doesn't have the visual appeal of NWE, but does have a low memory usage. I would suggest to try them both out.
Using it on a new MBP 15 2.66 with Snow 10.6.2 & NWE lets you write.
You can customize as much as you need.
NWE gives you lots of features to turn out many types of documents.
However, the main theme remains - it is a joy to write with Nisus Writer.