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User Name epresley
Member Since 2004-04-24
Total number of Feedback Posts: 3
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Grammatica 7.0 (Mac OS X)
It flagged 'jacket', a noun in that sentence, as a verb and wanted me to make it agree with the noun. It is dog slow. It makes changes that you can't see until you go back and look at your original text. Has a really hard time with a selection if you make changes on the fly as the checker checks. You can't 'go back' or 'undo'. You can't edit right into the text field without the beach ball of death spinning into a crash. Doesn't play well with latest mac:Word. It flagged enough stuff that I wanted it to that I was very disappointed with its bugs, its slowness and the fact that it flagged words like 'The' at the beginning of a sentence and wanted me to make it agree with other parts of the sentence. [alert admin]
Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 07:12 PM PST
Grammarian PRO X 1.8.3 (Mac OS X)
Tons More Rules, But Still Fairly Stupid
For the slang word "gonna" it suggested this to help correct the error: "i before e except after c or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh." It does offer up some good suggestions, but just like Word and most other checkers, it's still too stupid to understand what it is you're doing and will still suggest you do things that are just blatantly incorrect. You still need a grasp of grammar and usage so that you don't make ridiculous mistakes based on what it thinks it's found. Thus, it throws every rule that I don't know in doubt when it suggests them, because if it's wrong about that, is wrong about this too? It did find some things that surprised me I over looked so bonus points there, but it's very slow, you constantly get the beach ball of death waiting on it and in the newest Word for Mac, it doesn't actually correct the text, I have to make the changes by hand as I follow it along... so what's the point? [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 06:14 PM PST
AbiWord 2.1.2 (Mac OS X)
It claims to open WordPerfect doc's, but as someone with hundreds of WP doc's from his long time use of a PC and WPWin, this program DOES NOT open up most WPWin doc's and the one's that it does are incomplete - in my experience. I would PAY for a program that ACCURATELY opens up WP doc's on the Mac...haven't found one YET!!! I just want to open a WPWin doc...is that so wrong?!? As a free thing for quicky documents, it's fine...but there are so many other word processors for the mac that are more stable and offer as good a feature set or better. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 08:42 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by epresley [ Search for All ]
Tons More Rules, But Still Fairly Stupid 
Yes, it pastes the 'corrected' text after the fact, but what it shows in the text drawer were mix matched fonts and it constantly chopped off the first letter of many words after correcting the previous sentence, and then kept flagging them as wrong. I didn't know what I would get by pasting with it, so I denied it when it asked if it wanted me to paste.
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Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 06:18 PM PST
All of these programs suffer from not just design flaws but also from the flaw that they think these programs need to be simple, meaning, stupid, for the user to stay focused. For me its just the opposite. I need format and editing choices when I work. Maybe not the depth of Word, and certainly more streamlined and easy to use, but I do need to be able to manipulate and save and compile to…
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Monday, December 08 2008 @ 09:48 AM PST
The Upgrade Charge Is Quite Unsettling and Callous to NWX Supporters!
Especially when NeoOffice is FREE... and is the most compatible with MS Office on the PC.
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Monday, August 27 2007 @ 02:01 PM PDT
