This word processor is extremely popular in Jewish institutions around the world, including schools. The new DavkaWriter 2000, which is a significant improvement over its previous 1.5 version, does not have all the foreign-language fonts of Dagesh Pro 2000, preferring instead to concentrate on English and Hebrew. Although it uses the familiar Word interface shared by Dagesh Pro 2000, DavkaWriter 2000 seems to be completely new even though it was built on the experience gained from all the previous versions. Its Hebrew vowelization technology, called IntelliAccent, easily inserts the nikud and ta'amei mikra used for cantillation of holy texts, as well as automatic Hebrew question marks and even various dashes. A Davka fan told me he used the new version to produce Shabbat songbooks and Portion of the Week printouts, with vowelization on his own - quickly, smoothly, and without errors.
Footnotes are easy to produce.
Shapes can be inserted into documents, and graphics, shapes, and text boxes can be placed anywhere on the page. There are also many new Guttman fonts and a font preview that shows what they look like just by placing the cursor on each one. The spell-checker feature works well in both languages. In addition, Imported Dagesh and Word text files don't always keep their original formatting. This constitutes a big problem, however, only for those Dagesh users interesting in switching to the competition and Word users who prefer the ease of Word but need significant amounts of Hebrew text in their documents.