iWord Froze At First Sight; Happy Now

In the process of embracing my new found computing power through MacBook Pro Retina, I must also embrace a new environment in creating, storing, and sharing documents. When purchased my first Mac in 1996, Mac ProForma, it offered superior performance over the HP I had barowed. Ive been using Windows apps since, acclimated well, and got comfortable. "They" say that our comfort zone can be our failure zone, so Ive joined the hundreds of thousands of Apple junkies. I bowed down to the "iGods", walked into an Apple Store, and walked out with a shiny new MacBook Pro Retina. Top of the line, "They" say. Humm…

All I wanna do is create a simple Word-like doc. Is that so hard? I dont wanna touch that darned HP NetBook laptop ever again. Its slow and well, umm…its slow! Why oh why did this first experience have to CRASH! Yes, two minutes into cutting and pasting text from TextEdit into my iWord app, then changing a simple format like highlighting text…IT CRASHED! Its still thinking after the five minutes its taken me to write this review. Ugh! $9.99 down the toilet.

Now what? I really hope theres tech support. Nope. Their sites text is all in kanji so I cant read anything. Im so new to my machine, I have to look up how to force shut-down the app. I hope others have a better experience. Command-Option-Shift-Esc for three seconds…Done!

This review doesnt end there…I left to work with a client who Im coaching for her first bodybuilding competition, hit tennis balls with my BF, and his buddy form work, and relaunched iWord. So far so good. My last challenge was to change line and character spacing on my project and looked in the top menu bar. Nope. Its a button called "Inspector". Weird. Okay, so that worked on formatting but need to still figure out how to change margins. I have yet to do more complex projects with multiple columns, and will imbed images for my next word processing task; but this app seems fully capable. After saving my files as Word 2007 and "printing" as PDF, I tested the ability for Google to read/display the PDF and it worked. I did get that silly error that Google gives you to view the Word doc in plain text when I clicked from my MacBook but when I viewed from my iPhone, it was viewable. Funny.

Okay…this review was really long. ;-) I hope my experience helps you with your purchase. I for sure got my moneys worth just from this one project for church and I anticipate that I will get more bang for my buck with this recently released app. Yay me! Marlina

MarlinaV about iWord - Fantastic Word Processor for Multiple Document Formats