Microsoft Word 4+

All of my most elaborate written works have been completed in microsoft word, it is an excellent tool-- untuitive, clean, and easy to use. This platform is not merely an application in which a man may lay down some lines-- no, the words that are typed into this application are the engines that run the world! From scripts to songs to essays to books, you can bet it has had a brush with Microsoft Word at one time or another. Word is a kind of Big-Bang in each typed character-- in the mind a course is concieved and in Word through an act of Will is born a character which with diligent coaxing may become a word, which when like bricks stacked one upon another may seal together a created structure that did not live before! Word is the battleground where Men train to be like the God from whom we fell. Word is a kind of Eden reclaimed-- God provides our being, he is the generator that supplies all power to us, and in answer to being provided with ourselves, we too seek to create, and so we learn to do so by word, and often times that happens-- you guessed it-- in Word.

One of the most enjoyable experiences in using a Mac is that there is noi taskbar anbd popups from every program that thinks it needs to run in the background, take up resources without asking and give you "urgent" messages, in your face thinking that "I am the most important piece of software and daily task you will ever have". Microsoft products take me right back to that old feeling. At any given moment a message could pop up on whatever I do from Word or any other Office app telling me that it must close down all my documents because there's an urgent update (Usually it's some idiotic thing like dictionary update for ancient swahili spelling of the word "cave"). When you refuse because - hey I am working here, it keeps nudging you time after time after time after time after time after time. Leave me alone. I am the owner of this computer and I am the one paying for the licensing fee and my priority right now is my work and not YOUR schedule of updates. Microsoft still has that mentality that your priorities are subject to theirs. Who cares about your deadlines, focus, other tasks?
As for the rest of the porogram - it's ok but in this day and age I would expect drawing, dictionary, design, envelope and mail merge, and charting tools to be more advanced, reliable, fluiid, and take better directives than they did in 1998, before releasing half baked AI features into this bloated software. Very dissapointed

I detest nearly everything about this updated "subscription-based" online version of Word. Did they even speak to anyone who uses Word for editing? I hate how the comment function works--it's extra key strokes for me to "send" a comment, extra key strokes if I want to delete a comment, it's super annoying if I type a comment and forget to hit "send" and then go to type another comment and ugh--Word will take me back to the one I forgot to enter and then lose my place in the document. I hate that I have to select "edit comment" in order to type additional information in an old comment-- basically everything takes longer because there are at least two additional key strokes for every comment I want to enter. For someone who is typing multiple comments on every page of a 400 page document, this adds up to a lot of wasted time. And don't even get me started on comments about deleted text that just vanish...Or how Word reverts to the "list" setting when viewing comments that have been resolved, so then you can't see the actual text that's been resolved unless you select "contextual" but then the very next "resolved" comment reverts back to list... again, it's just more time wasted clicking on things. If there were literally ANY program I could use instead I would switch in a heartbeat.