Mac Power Users episode 187, word processing. Hello everyone it's David Sparks along with my pal Katie Floyd. Hey Katie

Floyd how you doing? I'm good David how are you? I'm okay but I think I'm coming down with a

little bit of a cold can you hear in my voice? Not too bad not too bad.

Okay well hopefully it's not going to be a big problem but I wanted to go to word processing because we've talked so much about

text editors over the last few years. Word processing has kind of fell by the wayside and maybe there's a reason for that.

That's, you know, kind of the first thing I got thinking

when I started doing the outline is,

our word processor is even relevant anymore.

Well, I think they are, but I'll tell you

that I am certainly using word processing less,

but with the exception of the things that I do for the day job, I don't use a word processor all that often.

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, in our day jobs you and I are in the practice of writing

documents that get printed on paper and sent to people and that's that's what a

word processor is for.

The last few years has been very attractive for me to get involved with using

text editors and simple text because number one that's kind of my thing, but also I just love the portability of it.

In fact I think I attribute a lot of this to the iPad because I really wanted

immediately when I had the iPad to be able to seamlessly work on

stuff on both platforms and the word processors really weren't very good at

it even though we had pages at the beginning. But this is not going to be an episode about text editors. It's not going to be an

episode about things like Scrivener, which really fit in an entirely different

category, and it's not going to be about destruction for your writing.

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