Yesterday, while roaming around the internet, I found this article by Heather Schwedel for Slate magazine:

Microsoft Word is the only word processor for people serious about words

The web title for the article is “Microsoft Word haters have it all wrong” and the first sentence of the article states the following:

The normal way to feel about Microsoft Word, I’ve gathered, is somewhere on a spectrum from muted tolerance to outright hatred.

Ms. Schwedel goes on to note she really likes Word, despite some “general consensus” which views the program negatively.

I guess I’ve been in a cave all this time.

As an author and someone who uses Microsoft Word on a near daily basis, I agree with Ms. Schwedel that Microsoft Word is…good, though I’m baffled by the “general consensus” against it.

As an author I’m pretty much always on the lookout for good word processing programs and in my lifetime I’ve tried many of them, always in the hope they’d be even better than Word.  I’ve tried Scrivener, Word Perfect, Works, Screenwriter, Open Office, etc. etc. etc.

Despite all the variety of choices, I’m always coming back to Word.

This is my personal favorite word processing program yet I can understand if others don’t like it.  It’s about what works for you, of course.

The comments section of the article provides some peoples’ opinions as to why they prefer other programs but, as I said before, to each their own.

Word simply “works” for me the best and perhaps familiarity is a big part of the reason.  I’ll I’ll still keep my eyes open for other word processors yet at this late stage in my life/career it seems more and more likely Word will stay my go to word processing program until up until I type out my last creative works.