Switcher Question: If not Word, then what?

By C.K. Sample, III

In the
comments to my last Mac n00b post, JJ asks:
"If Microsoft is so bad, what do you guys use for a word processor?" He then goes on to say that Appleworks,
OpenOffice.org via X11, and Abiword
all fail to please him for various reasons.

Unfortunately, I inevitably end up having to use Word sometimes. But if you like OOo and are just having trouble with the X11 implementation of it in OS X (they've actually end-of-lifed OS X development of OOo), you might find NeoOffice/J appealing. It's a non-X11 dependent java-based port of OOo for OS X that is still in development and integrates rather nicely with OS X (although much of the interface still looks like an ugly Windows app).

Any other suggestions for JJ?

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