2008-8-18  Checking Out iNetWord

Looks pretty good. The editing screen is nice and clean. The control buttons are a bit small, but that's okay, I guess. It works really well with the browser's zoom feature. It also works with Firefox's right click spell check suggestions and other options.

Unlike Google Docs, which saves everything to a folder where things go that haven't been asigned to a folder yet, iNetWord lets you choose the folder and file format when you save your document. Very nice. It's a bit annoying to have to move every single document in Google Docs to get it where you want it.

Also unlike Google Docs, you can create and modify styles in iNetWord. Very handy.

It allows you to publish your documents to your blog site. I'm gonna try that with this document and see how that works. Google allows this, but I'm not sure to what degree. I couldn't get it to work with my blog site. It may be possible, but I didn't know enough technical stuff about my blog site to completely fill in the dialog box. Hopefully, I'll have better luck here.

I haven't been able to make this work. It very well could be my fault. I'm still kinda ignorant about such things.

It'd be really hand to be able to publish directly from a web based word processor to my blog site. Right now, I compose in Word and then copy and paste to my blog. Not so much fun.

iNetWord seems to do all the normal formatting things everything else does. It appears to have a pretty robust tables feature. I rarely use table, so I haven't tried it out.

It has its own spell check, but I tend to rely on Firefox's spell check on th go feature.

You can add backgrounds to your documents similar to how you can in Word. Cute, but hardly necessary. I do it to make the all white screen a little easier to see.

All in all, I'd have to say I like it. Maybe better than Google docs. Since Google Docs is tied in with my e-mail, it is kinda convenient, but again not something that's necessary.