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Microsoft's Word has been the center of my professional life for many years now, primarily because I've yet to find another word processor that handles outlines so well. The outline view is based on hierarchical text styles, so turning an outline into an article or reorganizing an article as if it were an outline is easy. I haven't always been pleased with Word's updates, however. I still miss Word 95 with its fantastic Word Basic macro programming language. Nor am I happy with the user interface changes in Word 2007; I reverted to Office 2003 rather than learn a whole new way to use my primary program.

--Lincoln Spector, Answer Line columnist