Nisus Writer Express for Mac

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• Best word processor for the Mac

  rhunSeptember 8, 2010

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  With Nisus Writer Express you just write. It doesn't get in your way and yet has so many options to make you writing easier. Extremely adaptable you can change the preferences and select palettes to suit your needs.

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  None - as my wife said the other day - where has this gem been hiding all my life? If you need the big box of crayons with more features, take a look at Nisus Writer Pro.

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  Reads & saves Word docs and reads very old WordPerfect files. A lovely program to write with.

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• NWE - it's fun to write

  rhunNovember 14, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nisus Writer Express 3.3.1 continues the line of sensation composition software. Using it on a new MBP 15 2.66 with Snow 10.6.2 &amp; 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.

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• I try to like it butâ?¦

  rubaiyatSeptember 1, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />â?¦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.

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• No Thanks

  Kevinm78November 24, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />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.

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• I happily paid for the upgrade

  drtimothyjamesOctober 9, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />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.

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• I like!

  May 3, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's good

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• Best alternative to Word

  jacoffengJanuary 20, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />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.

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• So far very good

  ZX81May 18, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Trying to find a replacement dor MS Word, I've been playing with NWE for a few weeks. First impressions : great import of my old MS files (maybe because NW uses rtf.), much better in this version than in the official release (2.6.1). The inteface is great : clean, easy to use. I still find it puzzling to check my spelling (I write in Frech, but NWE sometimes opens the english Thesaurus...) Printing is VERY good ; I have wasted dozens of sheets of paper and it beats Abi, Mariner (which speed I like a lot) &amp; it does a terrific job with different fonts. I haven't found a way to outline as in Mellel which is brilliant in that respect but doesn't imort my MS files as neatly as NWE does.

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• A great product

  jcschumacher_dotmacApril 2, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have used Nisus products since the days when Word for Mac was stalled at version 5. I still am forced to use Word 2004 for some things, but tend to do as much as possible of any project in NWE before switching to Word. I enjoy the way NWE works.

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• It just works

  MacLanceMarch 29, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is probably the most Mac-like of the word processors out there because, like the Mac, it just works. The features that are present are well-designed, and the program can be made to work the way you do. While it doesn't yet have all the features of Nisus Classic, it also doesn't have the quirkiness of that program's interface and design, and this in many ways makes it a much easier program to use. Strongly recommended.

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