11 Facts About FullWrite Professional

1.

FullWrite Professional was a word processor application for the Apple Macintosh, released in late 1988 by Ashton-Tate.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,877
2.

In spite of these problems, FullWrite Professional developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,878
3.

FullWrite Professional started life at a small company, Ann Arbor Softworks, publishers of the earlier FullPaint.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,879
4.

FullWrite Professional opened a sales office and changed their official address to Newbury Park, California, although most of the company, notably development, remained in Ann Arbor, MI.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,880
5.

FullWrite Professional included a number of advanced layout features, such as user-adjustable kerning and automatic hyphenation.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,881
6.

FullWrite Professional featured change bars, allowing users to track changes to the documents.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,882
7.

Unlike competing designs, FullWrite Professional's solution supported not only one document outline, but any number of them, allowing the document to be arranged in several different ways.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,883
8.

FullWrite Professional's system was more flexible than competing solutions, and it continues to appear in discussions about outliners to this day.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,884
9.

FullWrite Professional included the ability to attach notes to any object in the document, whether that be paragraphs, images or outliner items.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,885
10.

The demo version of FullWrite Professional completely filled a floppy disk, and FullWrite Professional would crash if it did not have disk space available.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,886
11.

Reviews of FullWrite Professional were generally positive, and it reviewed well on feature comparisons.

FactSnippet No. 1,246,887