I know I'm showing the grey in my beard to say this, but I LOVED Word for DOS. It was fast and incredibly capable, and IIRC it was the only word processor avail

I know I'm showing the grey in my beard to say this, but I LOVED Word for DOS. It was fast and incredibly capable, and IIRC it was the only word processor available at the time (late 80s) that had a solid & usable stylesheet implementation. The thing is, though, most people didn't use it. Then as now, people just manually formatted titles and whatnot, without ever realizing that they could define "Header 1" to be whatever they wanted and using it throughout, etc. The folks who loved it, though, were people working in larger documents. At the time, I had a student job at my university, and more than once I helped grad students with dissertations and theses manage their stylesheets, and to watch the light bulb come on was pretty neat. word 5 for DOS was so solid that I used it as my primary word processor for YEARS after it was technically out of date. WFW was a DOG initially -- incredibly slow, ridiculously unstable, etc. Even the final DOS version (5.5) was weak; they reskinned it to use a text-mode implementation of the CUA-style menu structure, replacing the idiosyncratic menus of the original DOS version and thereby destroying its speed. (Kids: Back in the day, every program had its own menus and commands; there was no real uniformity of interface at all. It kinda sucked, but in this case it was a real strength of the product.)