Is it worth the (pricey for Pocket PC software) $49.95?
I have a confession to make. I like Pocket Word. After using it for a few years I’ve found work-arounds for most of Pocket Word’s deficiencies and really grown to appreciate the speed and convenience it offers. I still wanted a “real” word processor, something that would handle heading styles transparently — or at least remember the formatting from the previous paragraph so I wasn’t forced to use two returns between paragraphs — but it needed to be as fast and easy as Pocket Word to win me over. Frankly, that was a problem with the early betas of TextMaker I tried. They were considerably slower than Pocket Word and the user interface wasn’t as understandable. The program had all the power I could want from a word processor, but it was still too slow in regular use to be good enough. Fortunately, the folks at SoftMaker in Germany aren’t satisfied leaving a pretty good thing alone. The latest revision of TextMaker is close to word processing perfection on the Pocket PC. It’s finally as
