[Am-info] Word Processing Features

[Sujal Shah]

At the risk of starting an unpopular thread, I have an open question for 
everyone...

what features do you think are necessary to have a word processor that 
you would consider complete?

Here's my list (thinking off the top of my head).  I've divided them 
into three tiers:

Tier 1: Required
Tier 2: Common/Helpful
Tier 3: Optional

I couldn't think of a better term for Tier 2, but essentially, I mean 
things that are not required but truly are useful.

Tier 1:
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Stability
Fonts (sizes & faces)
Basic Formatting (justification, line spacing)
WYSIWYG
Tables
Bullets, Special Characters
Footnotes/Endnotes

Tier 2:
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Outlines
TOC generation
Styles
Grammar checking

Tier 3:
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Colors
Versioning/Workgroup features
internet features

What else am I missing?  what changes would you make?  Clearly, this 
list reflects a bias on how I use word processors.  It would be nice to 
come up with a list of common features we look for.  I would like to 
then use this list to cross reference a couple of  WP.  it seems to me 
that this monopoly is unfortunately often overlooked.  I'm going to try 
to track down feature comparison charts from WordPerfect and Office.  
OpenOffice might have a wishlist chart as well... so I'll take a look 
there.

Sujal