WordPerfect 10 is shit.

OfficeWord is shit.  WordPad is shit.  I need a good word processor.

I agree that Word is the best writer of the office suites.

But then it sucks. It almost inherently sucks. Why?

1. Because the managers want features. They want it to write for you. And we don't have good reading, let alone writing automatas yet. Every time Word attempts to do something "smart" or "automatic" it ends up failing hard and pissing me off.

2. Because it's almost impossible to do (so I don't blame them, but criticize the model) a system that will allow you to write rich text with complex styles in a WYSIWYG environment. You can't exactly control where "bolds" end and such. Ever deleted some characters with backspace, then kept writing, and found you're writing in a completely different style? Ever tried to use styles half decently? You can't, because Word does the open and close tags behind the scenes, and can't do it exactly how you'd want because information is missing on the screen.

That's why I just write XHTML+CSS2. It's fast, and you get em-perfect or pixel-perfect alignment. With some readily-available CSS3 extensions, you also get columns and everything you could possibly miss from Word, as well as more features such as rich borders, rounded corners, etc.