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Whats not to like about a basic and inexpensive word processor that opens faster than Libre Office and occupies 1% of the disk space, works with Libre Office as well as the clunky Microsoft formats, and offers easy PDF export?

Well, it wont open password-protected Libre Office files. Big deal. (I avoid Microsoft, so cant comment on Word.)

And theres no save as. You set a default format for new documents, and you have a chance to choose the format the first time you save, but after that you have to export it to rtf, doc, txt, or pdf. But you cannot export to Libre Office format.

So save as would be a nice improvement, and it would be nice if the app didnt prompt to save empty documents. As with Textedit, the save menu seems unusually slow to appear.

However, the major thorn in Write for me is that it will not recognize nor save page breaks compatible with Libre Offices odt format. The workaround there is to work in doc or docx, where the page breaks do translate, though that tends to make files considerably larger (as if anybody but me cares anymore).

Overall, a great app. A tweak or two and it will be close to perfect.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2012: Chris Mason has released Growly Write (not available through Apple). Its free and completely blows this Write out of the water (I dont even have this app installed anymore). However, Growly Write does not work with LibreOffice files, which turned me off until its developer pointed out that RTF files are human readable. Thinking in terms of archiving my few documents, RTF now makes sense to me. I could make get data out rtf files on an 8086 DOS machine if I had to, even if they became corrupted along the way. Look inside a Libre Office document and you just have a bunch of gobbledegook until the application translates it.

P Riehl about Write - The word processor for the rest of us. In simple.