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Hi BookCat, et al,
this entire thread is about such software! If you start at the very first post, you'l find strong support for several, and I'd suggest these are the ones that you ought to try first. I understand that this is to be a gift of your own choosing and your friends would feel put out if they bought it for you and then you felt something else was better.
I'm not overly happy with Scrivener, preferring WriteWay, but I readily acknowledge that Scrivener is probably one of the best-of-breed, so Ill give it another try.
I need to be able to quickly become comfortable with how a piece of software wants me to work, and I suggest that from what you've said about Word, you may be wise to search for something that suits you. (I like outline in Word as well, a feature I discovered in Word 2 or thereabouts)
Just last night, I discovered Liquid Story Binder, which is lightweight in terms of CPU usage and seems to have some very slick features. You might want to add that to your list.
But please, let us know how you fare - I for one will be quite interested.
Cheers,
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