Can anyone recommend a good Mac OSX native word processor that isn MS Word?
Nisus is continuing to develop – after a fashion – their namesake word processor, but with “Express” tacked on the end, it makes me wonder if it is full-featured enough to go toe-to-toe with Word. I used Nisus back in the day, and it was a solid product, but who knows what’s up with it now… Apple’s long rumored word processor may be nearing fruition – they trademarked “iWrite” in September – but who knows if that name will get used or is in fact even for a word processor. If you haven’t already, try entering “word processing” into the search box of the Macintosh Products Guide.. It turns up a fair number of entries…
I think you may be asking the wrong question — the question you want to be asking is not “How do I get Word to let me change the footers on an arbitrary page” but “How do I get Word to change the footers on an arbitrary page for me?” I’m guessing what you actually want to do is to have the footer follow the headings in the document, or something similar. It is worth spending a little extra time to learn to use fields, which will ver’ easily solve your footer issues. For example, if you want your footers to have the text of the most recent Heading 2 paragraph in them, you can use the [StyleRef “Heading 2” \L] code (I think that’s the right syntax) in a field to do this. This is similar to the way FrameMaker handles it and has the benefit of automatically updating the footers if you change the headings. You use one section per chapter and use the sections to handle different first/even/odd formatting; you use the field codes to set the actual values of the footers. If you do in fact wan
