>The excellent Dubber at New Music Strategies will doubtlessly approve of my hijacking his strapline for this one…

The Crocodile Dundee mugging incident comes to mind: “That’s not a knife… THIS is a knife…”

As in “Google Docs isn’t word processing… THIS is word processing”

And THIS is Buzzword

Tim O’Reilly (Tim O”Reilly? Yes, THAT Tim O’Reilly) calls it “the first real web-based word processor“. Good enough for me.

It’s so utterly intuitive and feature-rich, even in Preview 4 (which they’ve generously allowed me to test drive).*

Menus slide open when you need them, comment call-outs work like they’re meant to and document management is a dream

Sort alphabetically, by author, role, creation date, review date or size. And see a document summary without having to burrow through drop-down options.

And the huge benefit is its easy management of document collaboration.

If we’d had this when I was working on proposals – contributions streaming in from all over the globe at all times of day and night (mostly night…) – I’d have more hair.

And what’s left wouldn’t be grey.

Can I foresee a life without Word?
Almost.

Will I still need offline word processing ability?
Probably.

How much of my text stuff will I do with Buzzword?
About 95%.

’nuff said.

*They wanted a good reason why I should permitted to tread their – virtual – hallowed halls.
I gave them the usual YMBFA drivel, and it worked..

Orphaned at an early age, grandparents – childless, unfortunately – went down with the Titanic.
Promised to tell others in my geriatrics water polo group, all of whom appear to be early adopters of cutting-edge technology. All have laptop cradles on our Zimmer-frames

Worked!