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by drcongo 127 days ago
Those were the glory days of word processors, I used to have something similar on the Amiga. I'd still rather write on something like this than Word, Pages or Google Docs.
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At least Word has an outline mode, GDocs is the worst. A text editor with markdown support is better than GDocs.
Word's outline mode is a sham. You can't export the text in the outline format. Stupid AF.

Word used to be a great product. Today it's a shambolic testament to incompetent design and dereliction.

Google Docs is in fact a text editor with Markdown support, see https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036
I don’t remember seeing the outline function on the online version of Word.
It’s maddening that the Windows, macOS, iOS and web versions of Word all have completely random subsets of functionality.
> I used to have something similar on the Amiga

Same, don't remember the name though. But it was WYSIWIG and I'd use it to create character sheets for our D&D games. And then I'd print them on a dot-matrix printer on continuous paper. Oh the memories!

PageSetter 2/3 (can't remember which version got me my first job, from a cover disk), Page Stream 3, Professional Page :)