I'm not a big fan of stand-alone WP programs, as you can see from this Dominopower Article from 2005, but even I'll admit that there are times when you do need such an animal. So I've kept up with what Lotus are doing with Symphony, and downloaded the beta of Symphony 3 a few days ago.
Just now I had cause to use it - a simple task, copy the rich text of a document from Lotus Notes, where I'd authored it, to make a separate tidy document to email to a customer. The usual set of tasks here is Copy from Notes/Paste into Word/Swear at how badly it comes out/Reformat completely in Word/add header/add footer/Save/Email. Actually, more often than not these days I've used the Symphony 1.3 documents as included in Notes 8.5.1, but that's noit an enormous improvement.
This time I used Symphony 3; takes a little longer to start, but after that, I was pleasantly surprised. Copy/Paste/Header/Footer/Done. No drama, no swearing Now, I wasn't stressing it in any shape or form here, this is by no means an extended test, but it was a nice experience. I'm looking forward to Symphony 3 going gold, and being able to update the embedded versions in Notes and not have to have two copies installed.
Mick Moignard February 11th, 2010 03:55:23 AM