Cheap WordSmith Pro 2.0 (Software) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of WordSmith Pro 2.0

The word complete is a real time saver. It also has cut and paste and multi cut & paste. It counts words, paragraphs, and characters.

Wordsmith comes with a 59 page manual in PDF format. It is reasonably priced, and is compatible with MS Word and any program that uses RTF format - even Linux. It is also compatible with PrintBoy. You can have it ask for a password when opening the program. It claims support for high resolution screens such as some of the Sony's. I am willing to bet that a color PDA with high resolution would really show this program off.

Wordsmith has enhanced the memo function in the Palm, so that it works hand and hand with their program. When you start the program, you can choose to go into your docs or your memos. You can map the Palm memo button to bring up the program if you like - and there is no reason not to, unless you are using that button for something else, since Wordsmith is tied into Palm memos anyway.

Word completion is my favorite feature, e.g., I only had to type "fea" and a pop up menu with five choices appeared. Tapping "feature" finished the word for me. This is especially helpful when writing a first draft on the Palm.

The word completion function works in other applications so e.g. if you add your most frequently-used contact names to the custom dictionary then, as you start to type the name, it becomes one of the choices which pop-up. You can set it so a 1,2,3,4,5 or 10 word choice pop-up. 5 seemed a good choice.

The ability to choose Synchronize, Palm overides Desktop, or Desktop overides Palm is also a welcome feature that is noticeably absent in WordToGo which gave me fits because it lacks a choice to allow the handheld to override desktop. I lost 2 editing sessions I had done on the Palm, and I still am not sure why. There is really no way to lose a session like that using Wordsmith except through your own fault.

Wordsmith has extensive shortcuts which work with graffiti and also worked with my Seiko Thumboard, e.g. CMD + A highlights the entire document, CMD + C copies text and CMD + P pastes it and CMD + W toggles between full screen display (13-14 lines single spacing), and normal display (11-12 lines).

Many of the commands it responds to match MS Word commands and it offers full support for some keyboards, e.g. the Stowaway and Palm Portable.

It has a View mode (read only) that is terrific for browsing and reading books using autoscroll and other navigational options. In view mode, you can control the autoscroll speed too - great for editing long documents because you can switch to Edit mode with one tap and go back again to autoscrolling with two taps.

The View mode also has a feature to allow paging down or up with a tap on the top or the bottom of the screen (not on the elevator bar but rather anywhere in the body of the document.)

The fonts are somewhat confusing as the program refers to a display font and a regular font. When you do choose a font (and also when you change the font size), Wordsmith tends to ignore your choice more often than not.

I Wish there was full support for Seiko Thumboard but I am happy that many short cut commands work fine except some using control keys (which the Thumboard does not have) and others using the shift key (which it does have.)

Wordsmith claims that they are dedicated to making this a keyboard friendly program and I believe they have succeeded in that goal.

It has many excellent navigation features as noted and supports bookmarks, going to bookmarks, footnotes and endnotes and find/replace. It even supports subscripts and superscripts.

I really don't, see any major weaknesses except the fonts. Word complete does not appear to work properly when you choose the preference "no space inserted after a word," but I feel that is a minor bug.

I hope that they include a spell checker in future releases as PDAs are coming with enough memory nowadays. This is a fine program deserving of **** 1/2 stars out of *****. They just need to fix the fonts and add the spell checker.

Good program for PDA
WordSmith Pro definitely one-ups DocsToGo with its feature set - it really is a full-fledged word processor. Running this on a handheld with a folding keyboard means you can work like you were typing away on your desktop wherever you go. The added fonts, formatting, and spell-check are excellent additions, plus its view mode makes it a capable eBook-style reader for your favorite Project Gutenberg texts.

The only real flaw that I saw was that Wordsmith Pro doesn't seem to be able to write to the memory stick expansion card on my clie organizer. Also, the downloaded version requires a serial number that, when I downloaded it, was not present in the downloaded license program. If this hasn't been fixed, you may have to email amazon.com support and have them mail you a serial number. I would also recommend, once you have the program downloaded, going to Handmark's website and downloading the new program updates - they improve stability a lot.

Overall, if you're going to do serious word processing on a handheld, this is the program for you.

WordSmith Is A Writer's Dream!
This is by far the best handheld application available for writers. WordSmith makes it simple to turn the tiny chunks of time available throughout my day into productive writing time. No need to wait for a laptop to boot up, or carry a disk with documents to and from an office computer, just click-and-sync directly from Microsoft Word to my handheld, and continue writing where I left off while I'm on the go!

Using the WordComplete module with my custom dictionary entries, I'm able to breeze through documents with names and technical terms, too.

With the format-retention features, and just-like-Word keystrokes, this has nearly relaced my laptop on the road. Handmark has created a winner with WordSmith, and a tool every writer should consider.